Expanding international recruiting pool a boon to CU Buffs men’s basketball

Before he embarked on a coaching career, Tad Boyle spent his first post-college decade pursuing a career in finance.

Business and economics remain a couple of Boyle’s non-basketball passions. And so, while college basketball recruiting has evolved alongside the proliferation of the transfer portal and the start of the NIL/revenue sharing era, the new economics of recruiting are in many ways in Boyle’s wheelhouse.

It’s an economy expanding its global reach.

This past summer, the CU men’s basketball team picked up the final two pieces of a seven-player freshman class, Leonardo Van Elswyk and Alon Michaeli, from overseas, following a trend bringing more international prospects into college basketball. With coaches now allowed to carry up to 15 scholarships and the lure of a piece of the $2