According to The Portal Report, Iowa point guard Tony Perkins had offers from Miami and nine other schools within an hour of accessing the transfer portal.
Perkins, who is considered the top-ranked player in the transfer portal by EvanMiya, averaged a career-high 14.0 points per game as a senior for the Hawkeyes this past season, but has one more year of eligibility due to the 2020-21 COVID season, which does not count towards a player’s eligibility status.
He also set career highs in rebounds (4.4), assists (4.6), and steals while guiding the Hawkeyes to a 19-15 record and an NIT trip. Kenpom assigned him an offensive rating of 108.9. His 5.42 BPR paced the Hawkeyes and was 11th in the Big Ten.
In four seasons in Iowa City, the 6-foot-4, 205-pounder averaged 9.3 points in 126 games, including 81 starts.
He has a tight relationship with current Miami point guard Nijel Pack, who has yet to announce his plans for the following season. Perkins and Pack were both class of 2020 recruits from Indianapolis, Indiana, with Perkins attending Lawrence North and Pack attending rival Lawrence Central. Perkins was a three-star recruit and the No. 8 overall player in Indiana, while Pack was a four-star prospect and the state’s No. 4.
Pack’s senior season came to an end at the hands of Perkins’ Wildcats in the Class 4A state tournament, with Perkins helping pave the way to a state championship.
Several universities, including Indiana, UCLA, Oklahoma, BYU, Arizona State, Mississippi, Nebraska, Arkansas, and Missouri, have showed early interest in Perkins.
Miami has expressed interest in eight transfers, including point guards Ja’Kobi Gillespie (Belmont), JP Pegues (Furman), Tre Dinkins (Canisius), power forwards Brandon Johnson (East Carolina), Amari Williams (Drexel), and Mikeal Brown-Jones (UNC Greensboro), and center Clifford Omoruyi (Rutgers). Miami was also interested in Charlotte center Dishon Jackson, who recently revealed his decision to attend Iowa State.
