NEW HAVEN — The changes that have affected big-time college athletics so profoundly are inevitably sending ripples in all directions.

At Southern Connecticut State University, a place with a proud basketball tradition in Division II, running the men’s and women’s programs gets more complicated each year.

“It’s helped us and it’s hurting us,” said Scott Burrell, UConn great and NBA vet who has been coaching SCSU’s men since 2015 . “Last year, we lost two guys in the transfer portal that went Division I, but you use that in your recruiting now. You have to say, ‘this is an opportunity for you to do well in Division II, prove yourself as a basketball player.’ You’re recruiting kids every year, every year your team is new guys coming in.”

Division II schools were not part of the set

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