The transfer portal is one of the most important tools in building a college basketball roster.
Although we know that roster continuity is one of the keys to success in the NCAA tournament, it is undeniably important for collegiate programs to use the transfer portal to find contributors as well. More than 1,800 men’s college basketball players used the transfer portal last season and some have played impactful minutes in the 2024 NCAA men’s tournament.
We have already ranked some of the best players (e.g. Tucker DeVries, who transferred from Drake to play for his father at West Virginia) who entered the transfer portal during March Madness. But we also thought it could be helpful to sort the best players available by position.
This list pulls from projected impact metrics for the 2024-25 season, calculated by EvanMiya.com.
Other metrics weighted in our rankings include NBA probability (via Nick Kalinowski), various other impact metrics including Box Plus-Minus (via Bart Torvik), and strength of schedule on their previous roster (via KenPom).
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Note that this is not comprehensive and the portalf is constantly changing, but if a player appears here, it means they are one of the top players.
You can see a full list of the available players if you click here and you can also check out our rankings for the women’s college basketball transfer portal as well.
POINT GUARD
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- PJ Haggerty (Tulsa → Memphis)
- Myles Rice (Washington State → Indiana)
- Jeremy Roach (Duke → Baylor)
- Aden Holloway (Auburn → Alabama)
- Kylan Boswell (Arizona → Illinois)
- Dug McDaniel (Michigan → Kansas State)
- Sean Pedulla (Virginia Tech → Ole Miss)
- Ja’Kobi Gillespie (Belmont → Maryland)
- Frankie Collins (Arizona State → TCU)
- Julian Larry (Indiana State → Texas)
- Tre Donaldson (Auburn → Michigan)
- Tyrese Hunter (Texas → Memphis)
- Isaiah Swope (Indiana State → Saint Louis)
- Alijah Martin (Florida Atlantic → Florida)
- Meechie Johnson (South Carolina → Ohio State)
- Jaeden Zackery (Boston College → Clemson)
- DJ Davis (Butler → Washington)
- Koren Johnson (Washington → Louisville)
- Rollie Worster (Utah → Nebraska)
- Rubin Jones (North Texas → Michigan)
- Malik Mack (Harvard → Georgetown)
- KD Johnson (Auburn → George Mason)
- Milos Uzan (Oklahoma → Houston)
- Javian McCollum (Oklahoma → Georgia Tech)
- Cam Carter (Kansas State → LSU)
AVAILABLE
- Chucky Hepburn (Wisconsin)
- Deivon Smith (Utah)
- D.J. Wagner (Kentucky)
- Johnell Davis (Florida Atlantic)
- Elijah Hawkins (Minnesota)
- Posh Alexander (Butler)
- Dallin Hall (BYU)
- Bronny James (USC)
- Javon Small (Oklahoma State)
- Kevin Miller (Wake Forest)
- Duke Miles (High Point)
- Jalen Warley (Florida State)
- Aidan Mahaney (Saint Mary’s)
- Shakeel Moore (Mississippi State)
- Zhuric Phelps (SMU)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
- Kerr Kriisa (West Virginia)
- Baraka Okojie (George Mason → Memphis)
- Layden Blocker (Arkansas)
- Quadir Copeland (Syracuse)
- Jordan Pope (Oregon State → Texas)
- Tyrin Lawrence (Vanderbilt)
- Kanye Clary (Penn State → Mississippi State)
- Trey Bonham (Chattanooga)
- JP Pegues (Furman → Auburn)
- Conor Enright (Drake → DePaul)
- Reyne Smith (Charleston → Louisville)
- Bensley Joseph (Miami → Providence)
- Matt Allocco (Princeton → Notre Dame)
- Noah Reynolds (Green Bay → TCU)
- Zeke Mayo (South Dakota State → Kansas)
- Nicholas Boyd (Florida Atlantic → San Diego State)
SHOOTING GUARD
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- Tucker DeVries (Drake → West Virginia)
- Dre Davis (Seton Hall → Ole Miss)
- Jayson Kent (Indiana State → Texas)
- J’Vonne Hadley (Colorado → Louisville)
- AJ Storr (Wisconsin → Kansas)
- Tony Perkins (Iowa → Missouri)
- Roddy Gayle Jr. (Ohio State → Michigan)
- Ryan Conwell (Indiana State → Xavier)
- Micah Peavy (TCU → Georgetown)
- Chris Manon (Cornell → Vanderbilt)
- Darlinstone Dubar (Hofstra → Tennessee)
- Tramon Mark (Arkansas → Texas)
- Chibuzo Agbo (Boise State → USC)
- Riley Kugel (Florida → Kansas)
- Chris Youngblood (South Florida → Alabama)
- Luke O’Brien (Colorado → Georgia Tech)
- Aaron Scott (North Texas → Saint John’s)
- Grant Huffman (Davidson → Vanderbilt)
- Sincere Parker (Saint Louis → McNeese State)
- Connor Hickman (Bradley → Cincinnati)
- Jabri Abdur-Rahim (Georgia → Providence)
- Terrence Edwards (James Madison → Louisville)
- Claudell Harris (Boston College → Mississippi State)
- Selton Miguel (South Florida → Maryland)
- Kevin Overton (Drake → Texas Tech)
AVAILABLE
- Koby Brea (Dayton)
- Desmond Claude (Xavier)
- Richie Saunders (BYU)
- Rylan Griffen (Alabama)
- Max Shulga (VCU)
- Jack Clark (Clemson)
- Kasean Pryor (South Florida)
- Otega Oweh (Oklahoma)
- TJ Bamba (Villanova)
- Earl Timberlake (Bryant)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
- Dylan Addae-Wusu (Seton Hall)
- Garwey Dual (Providence)
- Ian Martinez (Utah State)
- RJ Melendez (Georgia)
- Rytis Petraitis (Air Force)
- Luke Goode (Illinois)
- Brendan Hausen (Villanova)
- Aboubacar Traore (Long Beach State)
- Damari Monsanto (Wake Forest)
- Khalif Battle (Arkansas)
- Wooga Poplar (Miami)
- Chaz Lanier (North Florida)
- Ra’Heim Moss (Toledo)
- Adou Thiero (Kentucky)
- Damian Dunn (Houston → Pittsburgh)
- Marcus Foster (Furman → Xavier)
- Ethan Morton (Purdue)
- Nate Heise (Northern Iowa → Iowa State)
SMALL FORWARD
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- Mason Gillis (Purdue → Duke)
- Kobe Johnson (USC → UCLA)
- Eric Dailey Jr. (Oklahoma State → UCLA)
- Joshua Jefferson (Saint Mary’s → Iowa State)
- Micah Parrish (San Diego State → Ohio State)
- Saint Thomas (Northern Colorado → USC)
- Scotty Middleton (Ohio State → Seton Hall)
- Andrej Jakimovski (Washington State → Colorado)
- Matt Knowling (Yale → USC)
- Patrick McCaffery (Iowa → Butler)
AVAILABLE
- Dillon Mitchell (Texas)
- Sean Stewart (Duke)
- Igor Milicic Jr. (Charlotte)
- RJ Godfrey (Clemson)
- Cade Tyson (Belmont)
- Leon Bond III (Virginia)
- Glenn Taylor Jr. (Saint John’s)
- Cedric Coward (Eastern Washington)
- Mawot Mag (Rutgers)
- Andrej Stojakovic (Stanford)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
- Jamiya Neal (Arizona State → Creighton)
- Brandon Angel (Stanford → Oregon)
- Barry Evans (Saint Bonaventure → Bryant)
- Ben Humrichous (Evansville)
- Frankie Fidler (Omaha → Michigan State)
- Gytis Nemeiksa (Xavier)
- Joe Charles (Louisiana-Lafayette → McNeese State)
- BJ Freeman (Milwaukee)
- Diante Smith (Nicholls State → UT Arlington)
- Raekwon Horton (James Madison)
POWER FORWARD
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- Aaron Bradshaw (Kentucky → Ohio State)
- Maliq Brown (Syracuse → Duke)
- Mark Mitchell (Duke → Missouri)
- Devin McGlockton (Boston College → Vanderbilt)
- Tre’Von Spillers (Appalachian State → Wake Forest)
- Viktor Lakhin (Cincinnati → Clemson)
- Federiko Federiko (Pittsburgh → Texas Tech)
- Dain Dainja (Illinois → Memphis)
- Sam Walters (Alabama → Michigan)
- Zed Key (Ohio State → Dayton)
- Brandon Huntley-Hatfield (Louisville → North Carolina State)
- JaKobe Coles (TCU → Grand Canyon)
- Carey Booth (Notre Dame → Illinois)
- Amari Williams (Drexel → Kentucky)
- Cam Corhen (Florida State → Pittsburgh)
AVAILABLE
- Great Osobor (Utah State)
- Andrew Carr (Wake Forest)
- Matt Cross (Massachusetts)
- TJ Power (Duke)
- Tobe Awaka (Tennessee)
- Mohamed Wague (Alabama)
- Baye Fall (Arkansas)
- Terrance Williams II (Michigan)
- Nick Pringle (Alabama)
- Baba Miller (Florida State)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
- John Hugley (Oklahoma → Xavier)
- Mikeal Brown-Jones (UNC Greensboro → Ole Miss)
- Omaha Biliew (Iowa State → Wake Forest)
- James Scott (Charleston → Louisville)
- Toibu Lawal (VCU)
- Brandon Johnson (East Carolina → Miami)
- Trey Townsend (Oakland → Arizona)
- Ben Burnham (Charleston → Virginia Tech)
- Oscar Cluff (Washington State → South Dakota State)
- Justin Abson (Appalachian State → Georgia)
- Tyler Bilodeau (Oregon State → UCLA)
- Pharrel Payne (Minnesota → Texas A&M)
- Malik Dia (Belmont → Ole Miss)
- Jalen DeLoach (Georgia → Loyola Chicago)
- Nana Owusu-Anane (Brown)
CENTER
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COMPLETED
- Oumar Ballo (Arizona → Indiana)
- Robbie Avila (Indiana State → Saint Louis)
- Lynn Kidd (Virginia Tech → Miami)
- Aly Khalifa (BYU → Louisville)
- Felix Oxpara (Ohio State → Tennessee)
- Rueben Chinyelu (Washington State → Florida)
- Danny Wolf (Yale → Michigan)
- Eddie Lampkin (Colorado → Syracuse)
- Zvonimir Ivisic (Kentucky → Arkansas)
- Josh Cohen (Massachusetts → USC)
- Dishon Jackson (Charlotte → Iowa State)
- Tarris Reed (Michigan → UConn)
- Sean Hansen (Cornell → George Washington)
- Brandton Chatfield (Seattle → Iowa State)
- Christ Essandoko (Saint Joseph’s → Providence)
AVAILABLE
- Jonas Aidoo (Tennessee)
- Vladislav Goldin (Florida Atlantic)
- Clifford Omoruyi (Rutgers)
- Brandon Garrison (Oklahoma State)
- Dennis Evans (Louisville)
- Abou Ousmane (Xavier)
- Moussa Cisse (Ole Miss)
- Braxton Meah (Washington)
- Mady Sissoko (Michigan State)
- Bent Leuchten (UC Irvine)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
- Mylyjael Poteat (Virginia Tech)
- Ugonna Onyenso (Kentucky)
- Josh Gray (South Carolina)
- David Skogman (George Washington)
