Big 12 Basketball: Ranking of top 20 incoming transfers for 2024-25 season
6. Jeremy Roach (Baylor)
2023-24 Season at Duke: 14.0 PPG | 2.5 RPG | 3.3 APG | 32.7 MPG | 46.8 FG% | 42.9 3PT%
Year after year, Scott Drew finds a way to have some talented guard leading the way in his backcourt. The latest proof to this point is found in the signing of veteran guard, Jeremy Roach. Roach comes over from Duke where he appears in 130 games. He’s coming off of a career-best season in 2023-24.
In his fourth season with the Blue Devils, Roach saw career highs in points per game, assists per game, field goal percentage, and three-point percentage. He also averaged a career-low in turnovers. Roach will fit in very nicely in the Baylor Bears offense and will prove to be a very solid pickup for Scott Drew, who has one more transfer still to come in these rankings.
5. Tucker DeVries (WVU)
2023-24 Season at Drake: 21.6 PPG | 6.7 RPG | 3.7 APG | 44.4 FG% | 36.3 3PT % | 35.5 MPG
If you’ve followed Tucker’s college basketball career at all, you know that he denominated in the Missouri Valley Conference the last two seasons. Naysayers may point to the argument that Tucker only moved to the Big 12 because of Darian DeVries accepting the head coaching job at WVU, but most if not all Power Conference teams would welcome the addition of Tucker DeVries. A 2-time conference player of the year returning for another season at a mid-major is just about unheard of in today’s world of college basketball.
Tucker DeVries is a 6’7, 210-pound, guard. One of the reasons that some guards struggle to make the jump from the mid-major level to the Big 12 is because of their lack of size in comparison to the competition. Pairing DeVries's 6’7 frame with great footwork and the ability to create shots for himself, his size will not be a problem. With DeVries' ability to score at all three levels, he will be able to find matchups to exploit on the offensive end. Last season at Drake, DeVries attempted 7 threes per game and just over 9 shots from inside the arc.
Tucker DeVries headlines a transfer class for West Virginia that has Mountaineer fans feeling optimistic about the future of the program.