Women’s college basketball transfer rankings 2023-24: Top 35 players in the portal – ESPN
Charlie Creme.
Charlie Creme projects the women’s NCAA tournament bracket for ESPN.com.
Just two weeks have passed since ESPN’s initial women’s college basketball transfer rankings for the 2023-24 season, and already so much has changed. More than 1,000 players are in the transfer portal. While many have already decided where they will play next, a new group of big names entered the portal since the season ended, and the women’s hoops world awaits the decisions of players such as Hailey Van Lith, who played the past three seasons for Louisville, and Aneesah Morrow, who played for DePaul the past two seasons.
The extra year of eligibility — players have the option to play a fifth year in college because of the COVID-19 waiver from 2020-21 — and new transfer rules allow for free movement and quick roster rebuilds. LSU just won a national championship with nine new players, many of whom were transfers, including four of the Tigers’ top five scorers and Final Four most outstanding player Angel Reese.
The impact doesn’t stop with LSU. Every team except Iowa in this year’s Sweet 16 had at least one starter who was a transfer. In the cases of Colorado, LSU, Miami, Ohio State, Ole Miss, Tennessee and Utah, a transfer was the team’s leading scorer.
Ole Miss reached the Sweet 16 this year with six transfers on the roster. Coach Yolette McPhee-McCuin has already added three starters from other programs for next year’s team.
In this edition, we’ve ranked all transfers on their measure of impact, whether they have made their next college choice. It’s also an expanded list; as the portal got bigger, so did the rankings, which now represent the top 35 transfers (we ranked the top 20 on March 28).
(Note: Each player is listed with her eligibility heading into the 2023-24 season; players’ decisions will be added as they are announced.)