Breaking down Penn State basketball's scholarship chart after Thursday's two transfer commitments
Penn State Nittany Lions basketball nailed down two transfer commitments on Thursday, as guards Camren Wynter and Andrew Funk joined the fold.
Wynter, who played four seasons at Drexel, will spend his fifth and final year of eligibility in Happy Valley. Funk played four years at Bucknell, and will do the same.
Here’s how Penn State’s scholarship chart looks as presently constituted. All of the 13 available scholarships are full.
*Asterisk denotes a player with a fifth season of eligibility resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic
| Fifth Year | Fourth Year | Third Year | Second Year | First Year | 2023 Class |
| G Myles Dread* | F Seth Lundy* | F Caleb Dorsey* | F/C Kebba Njie | G Logan Imes | |
| G Jalen Pickett* | F Jevonnie Scott* | G Dallion Johnson* | G Jameel Brown | G Braeden Shrewsberry | |
| G Camren Wynter* | G/F Evan Mahaffey | ||||
| G Andrew Funk* | G Kanye Clary | ||||
| F/C Demetrius Lilley | |||||
| 4/13 scholarships | 6/13 | 8/13 | 8/13 | 13/13 |
What the additions mean for Penn State
The Nittany Lions are getting two players who can score the ball.
After the departure of Sam Sessoms, who entered the transfer portal shortly after the season ended, that’s important.
Penn State finished the season last in the Big Ten in scoring at 64.6 points per game. That looks slightly better when you factor in tempo, but the Nittany Lions were still only 179th in the country in offensive efficiency.
Wynter and Funk should help Penn State put the ball in the basket. A first-team All-Colonial guard in the last two seasons, Wynter averaged 15.8 points per game last year and 16.2 the year before. He’s also an effective passer, posting over five assists per game for his career.
He’s been the main man at Drexel for the better part of three seasons. When he was on the court in 2021-22, he took over 27 percent of his team’s shots.
His success shooting the three could be what makes the difference for him next season in State College. Wynter entered last season as a plus three-point shooter.
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In his first two seasons at Drexel, Wynter shot 33 and 35 percent from beyond the arc. As a junior, his three-point percentage ballooned all the way up to an outstanding 41.5. Last year, though, he shot only 27.8 percent.
Funk’s scoring output was even more considerable.
He averaged 17.6 points per game last season, shooting 43 percent from the field and 36 percent from 3.
Funk took a whopping 493 shots for the Bison last season, and while he certainly won’t be asked to approach that number this year, his scoring chops should only help Penn State.
How PSU’s scholarship situation is shaping up
With the additions, there are no currently open scholarship spots at PSU.
Further exits remain a possibility, though, and that could give Micah Shrewsberry and his staff some more flexibility.
The Nittany Lions still need a transfer big man, unless they’re going to rely on two freshmen — Kebba Njie and Demetrius Lilley — to play center for them next season, which seems unlikely.
With Wynter, Funk, Jalen Pickett and Myles Dread all set to exhaust their eligibility at the conclusion of the season, Penn State has space for another big class in 2023. The Nittany Lions would have room for four freshmen in 2023, with the potential for more based on the possibility of further exits.
