AMHERST — Well, it didn’t take long for Division 1 men’s basketball players to take advantage of the transfer portal opening on Monday. As of Friday morning, there are already more than 1,000 total D1 men’s players in the portal. Some of them are still playing in the NCAA Tournament right now. Three of them have departed from UMass.

The Minutemen’s biggest loss is unquestionably Jaylen Curry, who averaged career-highs in points (13.3), assists (3.9) and rebounds (3.8) per game. He entered the portal on Wednesday, per his agents at WEAVE.

Curry became UMass’ starting point guard after Keon Thompson left last offseason, and the rising junior showed flashes of high-major talent throughout the season. Curry, a Charlotte, North Carolina native, missed about three weeks of action with a wrist injury toward the back end of the regular season. When he came back, he averaged nearly 17 points per game, including a 22-point, 8-assist performance in a 91-88 win over Rhode Island.

In this day and age of college basketball, there are no surprises when it comes to who enters the portal and who doesn’t. But whether the Minutemen expected Curry to leave or not, this one hurts regardless. Curry is a dynamic playmaker with the ability to score in bunches from all three levels. He played all but one minute in UMass’ Atlantic 10 tournament loss to La Salle, posting 18 points, four rebounds and three assists.

The good news is that Curry is the only player who saw significant minutes in head coach Frank Martin’s rotation to depart from Amherst as of Friday morning. But that could all certainly change in the near future.

Elsewhere, Amadou Doumbia and Lewis Walker also put their names into the transfer portal this week. Doumbia, a 6-foot-11 center from Mali, played only four minutes per game in 15 appearances. He was a work-in-progress having not played much basketball throughout his life, but the potential and raw intangibles were present, perhaps the reason Martin brought him in last summer. Doumbia averaged 1.6 points and 1.5 rebounds per game.

Walker used a redshirt this past season. He didn’t appear in any games but the 6-foot-6 forward from Winston-Salem, North Carolina has good size and athleticism that should be attractive to coaches searching to add wing depth this offseason.