Which Missouri Valley basketball players are in the NCAA transfer portal? Here's the list
Here are the Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball players who have put their names in the NCAA transfer portal ahead of the 2026-27 season.
The college basketball transfer portal officially opened Tuesday, and players wasted no time pursuing the game's version of free agency. The portal opened about 40 minutes after Michigan completed its national title win over UCONN. Within 10 hours after that, more than 1,000 players were already in the NCAA transfer portal , armed with agents and analytics and accolades.
It's expected nearly 3,000 players will join the portal before the 2026 cycle is over, more than half the players at the NCAA Division-I level in the 2025-26 season. The portal grows every year. In 2024, it reached about 2,100 players.
Last spring, it increased to more than 2,700. The 2026 portal is churning in overdrive, with 1,899 players entered as of Wednesday, April 8. The Missouri Valley Conference is right in the mix.
The Missouri Valley Conference was ranked ninth by metric site KenPom. com out of the 31 NCAA Division-I conferences in the 2025-26 season. As of April 8, there were 50 MVC players in the transfer portal.