Report: Gonzaga wing Emmanuel Innocenti intends to enter transfer portal
Apr. 5—One of the top two-way players from Gonzaga's 31-win team in 2025-26 could be wearing a different uniform next season. Junior wing Emmanuel Innocenti, a 29-game starter who ranked second on the team in minutes per game by the end of the season, is planning to enter the transfer portal, his agency "THE·TEAM" told DraftExpress on Sunday.
He becomes the first rotation player from Gonzaga's 2025-26 roster to reveal intentions to enter the portal four days after guard Cade Orness, a former walk-on, announced he was doing the same. Players cannot officially enter the transfer portal until it opens Tuesday, one day after the national championship game between Michigan and UConn. Innocenti was Gonzaga's eighth-leading scorer at 6.
0 points per game but widely considered to be the team's top on-ball defender. He averaged 24. 3 minutes per game, second to only Graham Ike (31.
2) and Braden Huff (25. 4), although Huff missed the team's final 17 games with a knee injury. Despite a constantly changing college basketball and transfer portal climate, Gonzaga's had a solid track record when it comes to retaining starters and key rotation pieces.
Innocenti becomes the first player to enter the portal after starting in a majority of Gonzaga's games the season prior or averaging at least 20 mpg. A 6-foot-5 native of the Ivory Coast, Innocenti arrived at Gonzaga in 2024-25 after spending his freshman season at Tarleton State. The wing came off the bench in 28 of the team's 31 games during his first season at Gonzaga, averaging only 1.