Will transfer forward Brandon Angel be a good fit with the Oregon Ducks?

Four-star transfer portal player Brandon Angel has committed to the Oregon Ducks after spending his first four seasons of college basketball with the Stanford Cardinal.

Throughout his career at Stanford, Angel averaged 51 percent from the field for 8.8 points per game. He also averaged 3.6 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game for the Cardinal.

Angel announced he would be entering the portal at the end of March and committed to Dana Altman’s squad on April 22.

As a 6-foot-8, 240-pound power forward, will Angel make a good fit as a part of the Oregon roster?

Unfortunately for Angel, forward Kwame Evans Jr. just announced that he would return to the Ducks’ squad for another season. 

Evans and Angel have extremely similar sizes and style of play. The two will now be in direct competition for that starting role.

While Evans is slightly smaller than Angel, he already knows how Altman’s program is run.

Angel and Evans were both highly recruited out of high school and could make for an excellent pair on the court if Altman decided to use them in tandem.

In 2023, Evans scored just 7.3 points and contributed only 1.1 assists per game for the Ducks. So, on a purely statistical basis Angel has a leg up on the returning Oregon player.

As seniors N’Faly Dante and Jermaine Couisnard leave the program, Oregon will be lacking size on the court so having two power forwards in the starting five could greatly benefit the Ducks.

Also leaving the program is to-be-senior forward Brenna Rigsby who entered the transfer portal earlier this offseason.

With Angel and Evans as starters, joining returning center Nate Bittle and sophomore guard Jackson Shelstad, the Ducks would have an impressive squad. 

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