Some Ole Miss basketball fans may have wondered when the transfers were coming, having just one in the opening several weeks. However, Chris Beard and his staff had served up a Tuesday double within hours of each announcement.
The Rebels already had LSU transfer Corey Chest but now have two more on the roster. First, Kansas guard AJ Storr was announced, then Lousiville transferred Koren Johnson, and both headed to Oxford.
Storr transferred to Kansas from Wisconsin before the 2024 season. He averaged 6.1 PPG and 1.7 RPG while averaging 15.7 minutes per game. In the 2023-24 season with the Badgers, he averaged 16.8 PPG and 3.9 RPG. Storr did not quite fit the bill with the Jayhawks, but if Ole Miss can get anywhere near his previous season, they have a consistent scorer coming in.
Koren Johnson transferred in from Lousiville, having played his first two seasons with Washington. Unfortunately for Johnson, he featured in just two games due to an injury. The former four-star recruit averaged 11.1 PPG in his second season with the Huskies and was the Pac-12 Sixth Man of the Year in the 2023-24 season.
If the Rebels get the best out of the two transfers, then they have two good scorers added to Corey Chest and returning Malik Dia, who can score but offer a tremendous defensive one-two.
Ole Miss also missed two players today: Lamar Wilkerson is heading to Indiana, and Mississippi State transfer KeShawn Murphy is choosing Auburn. Chris Beard still has several targets on his list, and about this time last year, the dominoes started to fall. The program hopes today will be the start of the 2025 dominoes.