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Ranking the five best available college basketball transfers

By Jacob Lane

NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 17: Villanova Wildcats Guard Jahvon Quinerly (1) dribbles the ball against St. John's Red Storm Guard Shamorie Ponds (2) defending during the first half of the game between the Villanova Wildcats and the St. John's Red Storm on February 17, 2019 at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY. (Photo by Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 17: Villanova Wildcats Guard Jahvon Quinerly (1) dribbles the ball against St. John's Red Storm Guard Shamorie Ponds (2) defending during the first half of the game between the Villanova Wildcats and the St. John's Red Storm on February 17, 2019 at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY. (Photo by Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /
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NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 17: Villanova Wildcats Guard Jahvon Quinerly (1) dribbles the ball against St. John’s Red Storm Guard Shamorie Ponds (2) defending during the first half of the game between the Villanova Wildcats and the St. John’s Red Storm on February 17, 2019 at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY. (Photo by Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 17: Villanova Wildcats Guard Jahvon Quinerly (1) dribbles the ball against St. John’s Red Storm Guard Shamorie Ponds (2) defending during the first half of the game between the Villanova Wildcats and the St. John’s Red Storm on February 17, 2019 at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY. (Photo by Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /

The 2018-19 season is officially over and now coaches are looking put together their teams for next year. We take a look at the five best available college basketball transfers and predict where they could end up.

Within hours of Virginia winning the 2018-19 college basketball championship, national media outlets were already previewing rankings and rosters for the 2019-20 season. Welcome to college basketball.

Currently the transfer portal holds over 500 names from the Division I level, according to Jeff Goodman of Stadium, including players who transferred during the fall semester, after the conclusion of the season and is a mix of players who will have to sit out a season due to NCAA rules and players who will graduate and be able to play under the graduate transfer rule.

For the next three to four months programs will do their best to land players from the transfer market in what has become college basketball’s “free agency.”

This past season several players made huge impacts for their respective programs, including Texas Tech’s Matt Mooney and Tariq Owens, who played an integral role in leading the Red Raiders to the NCAA championship game, as well as players like Dedric Lawson (Kansas – Big 12 Player of the Year), Brandon Clarke (Gonzaga), Reid Travis (Kentucky), Christen Cunningham (Louisville) and plenty of others.

Let’s take a hop into the transfer portal and examine which five players currently deciding on where to continue their college basketball careers could be the next big stars in 2019-2020.