NCAA Basketball: Current ranking of top 100 transfers in 2022 offseason

50. Ezra Manjon – Sophomore

Manjon is the player that snuck into the transfer portal and a lot of fans may have may missed. He played at UC Davis which is a team that many of us know about given that it is in the Big West and their games are not often televised. I can guarantee that wherever the 5’11” guard lands he is going to be that fan base’s favorite player. The guard was underrecruited out of high school and is usually the smallest guy on the floor. He plays with an incredible chip and goes out and balls.

Manjon rarely shoots threes, can jump out of a gym, and gets into the paint with ease. He is scrappy and a ton of fun to watch. He likely will transfer up to a mid-major from a low major and should lead that team in scoring and hopefully to the NCAA tournament.

49. David Jenkins Jr. – Senior

Prior to this year, Jenkins Jr. was a guy who was one of the best scorers in the country. He showed that if he got minutes and was able to get at least 12 shots per game he could score 15-20 per game. Last season while a member of the Utah Utes he was used sparingly on the offensive end and didn’t get to many shots up per game. The shots he did take usually were from deep where he made 40% of them and that added to his 41% career average from the deep.

The first attempt at a power five roster did not go well for Jenkins however the best years of his career both with South Dakota State and then UNLV he played for TJ Otzelberger who is now the coach at Iowa State. He seems to thrive under Otzelberger and look for the reunion again.

48. Souley Boum – Junior

Boum is going to score over 2,000 points in his career. He is proven he can be an elite scorer and volume scorer if given the shots. Unfortunately, for the junior guard, he has yet to play on a contending team so the world had not been able to see what he can do on the offensive end. Take it from me, someone who has watched Boum play, he is a joy to watch play basketball, he is great at creating his own shot, he is efficient from everywhere on the floor and he is still engaged in the game when his shot is not falling.

Boum is a great shooter from outside, but the guard is at his best when he puts the ball on the floor, drives the lane, and gets fouled. He took over 200 foul shots last year and made over 170 of them for an 85% success rate. There is a lot to like on the offensive end, but he doesn’t rebound much, and he is better off the ball, so his assist rate won’t be high. The guard is likely going to want to play for a contender.

47. Jalen Johnson – Junior

It won’t be every day that you see a player from the SWAC this low on a transfer rankings list. However, Johnson is not your ordinary SWAC player he is a monster inside the paint and is one of the best interior players in the country at only 6’7″. The big man has an athletic frame that is muscular and most importantly he has good feet and soft hands, and he can do a lot in the post.

He is one of my favorite interior players to watch because of how hard he plays and how he can dominate a game. In addition to his ability to score in the paint, he is one of the best offensive rebounders in the portal. He averages over two offensive rebounds per game which he then puts in for easy buckets. The big man can play at a power school but doesn’t know if he wants to.

46. Kam Curfman – Junior

As was mentioned earlier the VMI Keydets had their three best offensive players enter the portal and all three of them were different in the way they play and their contributions to the game. Curfman started every game at VMI and in his time there he became one of the best shooters in the country. I would put the guard up against anyone in a three-point competition and he would likely come close to winning it.

Over 70% of his shot attempts in his career have come from beyond the arc and he has a career shooting percentage of 39% from beyond the arc. To just put this into further perspective Curfman has played in 90 games over his career and has taken 689 threes and made 270 of them. He doesn’t need to do much else because he is a commodity that many teams do not have.

45. Eric Gaines – Sophomore

The guard is honestly ranked too low on this most likely, but I have him here because it is hard to envision how good he can be, but if he picks the right team, he can be very good. The guard is one of the best defenders in the country and arguably the best defender on this list. He averaged over 2 steals per game last year which ranked top 5 in the SEC, and he would get the steals and get out in transition for easy baskets.

The sophomore has a 6’8″ wingspan which allows him to get those steals and he also has his fair share of game-changing blocks for a guard. Gaines is due for a huge breakout year and ready to put himself on the national map. Gaines will play at a power five and hopefully, he can replicate the fantastic year he had last year.

44. Kario Oquendo – Sophomore (Staying at Georgia)

Oquendo was one of the best players in the entire SEC a season ago, the problem was he played for the Georgia Bulldogs who were a mess of a program under former head coach Tom Crean. The sophomore guard was not a great shooter from deep, but he was efficient inside the paint and was able to get fouled a ton. The guard took over 150 free throws but only made 71% so many would like to see that number increase.

Even with the lack of outside shooting and the decent free throw shooting Oquendo is one of the better scorers in the transfer portal. He can get to the rim with ease and is going to have quite a few suitors who hope they can develop his shot and become one of the best scorers in the country.

43. Tevin Brewer – Junior

Brewer is 5’8″ tall and only weighs 160 pounds, that is the only thing about him that is small though. Like every other shorter player that plays basketball at the college level, the former Florida International guard feels like he has something to prove. He plays with the ultimate chip and that gives him a needed edge to go out and dominate every night on the floor.

The junior has also started every game he has played at Florida International and in that time, he was able to put up a career 40% from beyond the arc all while averaging 5 assists to go with 2 turnovers per game. He is a true point guard who can really score.

42. Earl Timberlake – Sophomore

This will be the third school for Timberlake in his three years in college he started at Miami, and then was granted his free one-time transfer last season to Memphis and now this year wherever he ends up he will need a waiver, or he must sit out a year. The Tigers had a ton of talent and Timberlake had a hard time cracking the rotation last year which is what ultimately led to his decision to transfer. His minutes being uncertain really messed with the guard, he put up terrible offensive numbers but the shots he did take he made about half of them.

The wing is a talented kid as he was a 5-star recruit coming out of high school and he has a ton of athleticism that another power five team looking for an athlete will take a flyer on him. The transfer year will do him a lot of good and he will be able to learn and develop to reach his full potential.

41. Parker Stewart – Senior

It will be year number 4 and team number 4 for the 23-year-old shooting guard. Stewart should be given a bit of a pass as he likely would have been at the same school for multiple years had a tragedy not happened. His father Anthony was the coach at UT Martin when Parker played his sophomore year there, Anthony suddenly passed away before the 2020 season began and the Senior guard transferred as it was too hard to play at UT Martin anymore.

Stewart is a great shooter and has shown that when he takes a high volume of shots, he can be a high volume scorer. At a power five, he is going to be a role player again, so he likely may go to a mid-major.