We’re now more than three weeks removed from crowning Florida as the national champions and the attention of the college basketball world has moved to next year. Coaching staffs around the country have been engaged in tireless recruiting, both with freshmen and junior college prospects as well as working the transfer portal.
There have already been some groundbreaking moves made in the portal, with notable players heading from one school to another in the previous weeks. Despite all this movement, there are still a lot of things left to be decided. After all there were several thousand college basketball players entered into the portal before it closed last week and it’ll take weeks and months to sort out everyone’s newest destinations.
Today we’re taking a closer look at what’s left in the transfer portal at the end of April, focusing on the best of the best. We’ll be ranking the fifty best players still without a destination in the portal, knowing full well that this list could change on a daily basis as more players commit to their new schools. For now, here begins our run through of the best pieces in the portal right now.
50. Rakease Passmore – Kansas
Passmore has taken something of an indirection route to get to this point in career, though the talented guard originally from Florida is still hoping to make the best of his college days. He went to high school in North Carolina and was considered a Top 40 recruit in last year’s class even if his freshman season didn’t live up to expectations under Bill Self.
There wasn’t really a role for Passmore with the Jayhawks this past season and that’s the reason he’s in the portal. Playing in just over half of Kansas’s games, Passmore averaged less than a point and less than a rebound and didn’t see much playing time, mostly in a backup role. The early reports on Passmore as an explosive scorer and transition specialist could still be true, though he’ll have to land some place that’ll give him that chance to shine.
49. Cam Scott – South Carolina
Another player just looking for the right situation, Scott is a 6-6 guard from Lexington, South Carolina who was a Top 40 recruit this past season. He stayed right there in his home state to play for the Gamecocks but he and Lamont Paris’s entire team both struggled this past season and Scott is in the portal already.
The move comes as a little bit of a surprise though Scott didn’t get a lot of run in his first season, averaging just 2.5 points and 1.3 rebounds while playing around 10 minutes a game for the Gamecocks. A last place finish in the SEC paired with a tough depth chart ahead of him kept that freshman year from being stellar, but now Scott has a chance if he can live up to the initial hype as a talented shooter.