With greater than 1,300 transfers now acclimated to their new environment and about to play ladies’s faculty basketball video games for actual in lower than two weeks, it’s an excellent time to revisit the very best of the bunch.
This revised addition of our high transfers checklist from April has as a lot to do with the influence every participant could have on their new crew because it does with their expertise and talent. Who’re the most important recreation changers? Who might alter nationwide and convention championship races essentially the most? Who turns into extra vital due to different roster motion?
The significance of Ta’Niya Latson to South Carolina has grown the previous two weeks. MiLaysia Fulwiley may need the outlined position at LSU she by no means discovered with the Gamecocks. UConn and UCLA have every added star gamers since our final rating who add extra intrigue to the Huskies’ title protection and the Bruins’ pursuit of a primary.
With the beginning of the 2025-26 season nearly right here, let’s have a look at the highest 25 transfers with the most important potential influence.
The season-ending harm to Chloe Kitts after Ashlyn Watkins’ determination to take the yr off means the Gamecocks can be extra perimeter-oriented than common. That makes Latson’s determination to depart Florida State to complete her faculty profession in Columbia that rather more vital to the Gamecocks’ pursuit of a sixth consecutive Closing 4. Final season’s main scorer at 25.2 factors per recreation additionally set profession excessive averages in assists (4.6) and steals (2.2).
The nation’s premier playmaker may need discovered the proper match for her last faculty season. Coach Mark Campbell’s up-tempo, pick-and-roll system ought to create loads of alternatives for Miles to make use of her excellent courtroom imaginative and prescient. She averaged 5.8 assists at Notre Dame final season to associate with a career-high 15.4 factors and 40.6% 3-point capturing.
Constant manufacturing outlined Williams’ three years at Wisconsin. Her addition provides the Huskies an enormous three that additionally contains Sarah Sturdy and Azzi Fudd. Williams and Sturdy have an opportunity to be the very best frontcourt duo within the nation. Williams has a profession discipline purpose share of 51.5% and averaged 19.2 factors and 9.8 rebounds final season.
An skilled wing with dimension may need been the one piece lacking for the Bruins a season in the past, and Cori Shut obtained one of many nation’s finest in Kneepkens. A profession 43.2% 3-point shooter in 4 seasons at Utah, Kneepkens returned from a foot harm that shortened her 2023-24 season to attain 19.4 factors per recreation final marketing campaign — which was good for fourth within the Massive 12.
Implementing transfers into her system has turn into a Brenda Frese hallmark, and the versatile former Indiana participant needs to be a simple one. Count on Maryland to make use of Garzon at each the purpose and on the wing together with her dimension creating matchup issues for defenses at both spot. An excellent defender and passer, she additionally excels as a shooter and has made 42.6% of her profession 3-point makes an attempt.
The Rebels have been remade with transfers this season, and McMahon is the very best of the eight new gamers introduced in by coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin. McMahon relied virtually completely on her power and energy in her first two seasons at Ohio State, however her recreation grew to become extra nuanced final season. She averaged 16.4 factors and dramatically improved her 3-point capturing to 38.6%.
No interconference switch will get extra consideration than Fulwiley, who hopped from South Carolina to LSU. Add her vitality and highlighting-making expertise to the dynamic of switching sides in a rivalry, and will probably be must-see TV when the groups meet on Feb. 14th for his or her lone regular-season matchup. Fulwiley solely began three video games in her two years with the Gamecocks, nevertheless it appears like she may land the Tigers’ place to begin guard position. LSU can also be loaded within the backcourt with Flau’Jae Johnson and Mikaylah Williams — to not point out three guards from the No. 1 2025 recruiting class.
Barker spent two years as a major scoring possibility at Texas A&M and one yr as a task participant at UCLA. At Tennessee, Barker will most likely be someplace in between. Her dimension and power can be an asset to the Girl Vols’ rebounding, a necessary ingredient to their fast-paced fashion underneath coach Kim Caldwell. Barker solely began three video games at UCLA final season and averaged 7.4 factors and 6.0 rebounds.
Coach Kenny Brooks leaned closely on Georgia Amoore in her one season at Kentucky. He may do the identical with Morgan this yr. The senior guard, who began 85 profession video games at Georgia Tech, was third within the ACC in assists per recreation (5.6) final season, and can now have an skilled frontcourt in Clara Strack, Teonni Key and Amelia Hassett to get the ball to in Lexington.
The Bears’ 2025-26 destiny could be solely depending on the well being and manufacturing of Scott. In two stops in two seasons at Arkansas and Auburn, she performed simply 23 video games. However she averaged 21.2 factors in these appearances. A full season of a wholesome Scott might make Baylor an explosive offense with an opportunity at a Massive 12 title.
Like Scott, Ziegler may maintain the important thing to her crew’s success. If she will be as productive within the ACC as she was within the Atlantic 10, Louisville could have the form of steadiness coach Jeff Walz craves. With out massive contributions from Ziegler — who averaged 17.5 factors and 10.4 rebounds at Saint Joseph’s final season — he can be counting on a younger backcourt to hold the Cardinals to a sixteenth straight NCAA event.
With JuJu Watkins out for the yr, Dunn was an excellent acquisition from the portal for coach Lindsay Gottlieb. She will be able to present the management for what’s a gifted, however younger, Trojans crew. Dunn’s power is her power: She will be able to get to the rim and grabbed a powerful 5.8 rebounds a contest from her guard spot whereas averaging 15.5 factors final season at Georgia Tech.
Regardless of not beginning any of her 71 video games at Duke, Okananwa was instrumental within the Blue Devils groups that superior to at least one Candy 16 (2024), gained the ACC event and appeared in an Elite Eight (2025). She averaged 16.3 factors and 6.7 rebounds within the 2025 ACC event, successful MVP honors. Her expertise as a defender may put Okananwa proper subsequent to Garzon within the Terps’ beginning lineup.
After successful ACC sixth participant of the yr as a freshman at Georgia Tech, Carnegie is transferring 73 miles east to Athens. She’s the headline addition for Georgia coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson, who must rebuild after going 25-37 over the previous two seasons. Carnegie’s 12.9 factors coming off the Yellow Jackets’ bench have been greater than any Bulldog averaged final season.
Okot went from a luxurious to a necessity for the Gamecocks with Kitts and Watkins each out for the season. She turns into a major frontcourt possibility for Daybreak Staley, who may want her to provide the best way she did a yr in the past at Mississippi State (11.3 PPG, 9.6 RPG).
It has been a gradual climb for Kyle, who has performed components of 5 faculty seasons: two at Purdue and three at Florida. Her minutes and level manufacturing have elevated every season. The Hurricanes are a remade crew with seven incoming transfers and 5 freshmen. Kyle, together with her dimension, expertise and 14.1 factors and eight.7 rebounds a season in the past, leads the best way.
Whereas solely a 29.2% 3-point shooter at Arizona final season, Williams brings vitality and explosiveness to the purpose guard place for the Cyclones. Final season’s help numbers (2.9) ought to go up with Audi Crooks and Addy Brown as passing targets, however Iowa State will welcome her potential to get to the rim and rating (12.7 PPG).
After being suspended in early January after which not taking part in after Feb. 6, it was clear McMiller’s time at Rutgers was over. Each she and Penn State, which misplaced seven gamers within the portal, wanted a reboot. Her 18.7 factors and three.0 assists per recreation ought to assist an offense that was eleventh within the Massive Ten final season. McMiller may even get to play alongside an skilled backcourt teammate in redshirt junior Moriah Murray, who together with publish Gracie Merkle, elected to return to State School after initially coming into the portal.
Together with her dimension and flexibility, Suarez could be an excellent pick-and-roll associate for Miles. After two disappointing seasons at Tennessee, she averaged 12.9 factors and seven.2 rebounds final yr at Cal. If her 3-point capturing improves (31.5% final season), coach Mark Campbell may need the one-two punch to copy the success of Hailey Van Lith and Sedona Prince.
The switch portal was a web adverse for Irish coach Niele Ivey, who misplaced Miles and Kate Koval. However Moore makes the deficit extra palatable. Her consistency and flexibility ought to make her an excellent match taking part in alongside Hannah Hidalgo. She performed with one other high-scoring guard in Mikayla Blakes at Vanderbilt final season and nonetheless managed to attain 12.4 factors per recreation.
Totally recovered from a knee harm she sustained early within the 2023-24 season, Smith was taking part in her finest basketball in March, averaging 13.8 factors and 10.3 rebounds in 4 NCAA event video games for LSU. She has additionally blocked 1.3 pictures per recreation in her profession, and that rim safety potential will give the Cavaliers one thing they haven’t had lately. If Virginia is to make simply its second NCAA event since 2010, Smith can be a key.
After three years as a task participant at Texas and Miami, Lattimore popped final season at Virginia (14.3 PPG, 8.2 RPG, 2.2 BPG), practically tripling her manufacturing from 2023-24 with the Hurricanes. The Rebels’ alternative to take that subsequent step past the Candy 16 may lie with how Lattimore adjusts to the SEC and to the most important expectations of her profession.
With Watkins (harm), Kiki Iriafen (WNBA) and Avery Howell (switch portal) out, the Trojans wanted extra firepower, and Jones ought to present that. It additionally doesn’t harm that she strikes over from crosstown and Massive Ten rival UCLA. Jones’ 8.5 factors per recreation and 35.1% 3-point capturing have been profession lows final season, however she additionally had fewer alternatives for the deep Bruins. These ought to return at USC.
After coming into Notre Dame because the No. 5 highschool prospect and starting the yr as a starter, Koval’s minutes drastically diminished by the point January arrived. A recent begin in Baton Rouge may assist. LSU had its share of defections, and Koval, who averaged 5.3 factors and 4.7 rebounds with the Irish, is now the one true publish participant on the Tigers’ roster.
Already one the nation’s high 3-point capturing groups (thirteenth at 37.0%), the Huskies obtained stronger in that space with the addition of Howell (39.9%). She doesn’t have the dimensions of the departed 6-4 Dalayah Daniels, however she ought to nonetheless be capable of substitute the scoring manufacturing as Washington appears to construct on its first NCAA event look since 2017.
Others thought-about: Breya Cunningham (Texas); Yuting Deng (Baylor); Aaliyah Guyton (Illinois); Nyla Harris (North Carolina); Amiya Joyner (LSU); Ta’Mia Scott (Alabama); Clara Silva (TCU); Haleigh Timmer (Oklahoma State); Kierra Wheeler (West Virginia)