It is hard to overstate the importance of the transfer portal in college sports.
Although roster continuity is one of the keys to success in March Madness, it’s also incredibly helpful for some programs to use the transfer portal to find ready-to-play contributors.
More than 1,600 men’s college basketball players used the transfer portal last season and some of the players who appeared on last year’s edition of this list (e.g. Creighton’s Baylor Scheierman) played impactful minutes in the NCAA men’s tournament. Several important players in the Final Four (like Miami’s Jordan Miller and Nijel Pack or UConn’s Tristen Newton) were transfers.
Below, we highlighted some of the most notable names in the transfer portal.
We used data from our good friends at Cerebro Sports — you can create a free account to evaluate player performance across all levels globally. Their C-RAM metric grades players on a scale from 0 to 10+ based on their overall performance.
This story references projected impact metrics provided by EvanMiya.com. BPR values are interpreted as the expected points per 100 possessions better than a D1 average player while on the floor.
We have also included projected impact metrics from BartTorvik.com, which you can view here and learn more about it here.
Additionally, NBA likelihood percentages are provided by Nick Kalinowski. You can learn more about the metric here.
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.