College basketball is experiencing a seismic shift as a record number of athletes entered the transfer portal this year. A number of players entered the portal to get better financial compensations elsewhere while some entered for sporting development.
We have elite scorers, lockdown defenders and playmakers all capable of deciding the fate of a game in this year’s transfer portal. We take a look at the top five centers in the women’s basketball transfer portal this year.
Top 5 Centers in the Women’s Transfer Portal
Ra Shaya Kyle
Kyle is a 6’6 who played for the Florida Gators but has now committed to the Miami Hurricanes. She spent the first two years of her career at Purdue, was the Gators’ second-leading scorer with 14.1 points per game and finished in the top six in the SEC rebounds list with 8.7 rebounds per game. She also ended the season with a 59.4% success from field.
With Kyle as Miami’s top addition, head coach Tricia Cullop has now overhauled the Hurricanes’ roster with six portal additions this cycle.
Breya Cunningham
Standing at 6’4, Cunningham played for the Arizona Wildcats but has now committed to the Texas Longhorns. She showed remarkable improvements as a sophomore, and she now moves to Austin to help replace Taylor Jones who has exhausted her college eligibility.
She went from 7.7 points per game in her freshman year to 11.0 points per game in her sophomore year. Her rebounds figure also went up from 4.7 points per game to 7.0 points per game.
Latasha Lattimore
Lattimore is a 6’4 center/forward from Virginia Cavaliers and has now committed to the Ole Miss Rebels. She is joining her fourth school (Texas, Miami, Virginia). Mississippi’s head coach McPhee-McCuin might be getting her at the right time as she just came off a productive season.
Lattimore went from 5.6 points per game in 2023-24 at Miami to 14.3 points and 8.2 rebounds per game this season at Virginia.
Madina Okot
Okot played just 23 minutes per game yet she averaged 11.3 points and 9.6 rebounds per game with 65% FG demonstrating a high level of efficiency. She played two seasons of college basketball in Kenya and last season with Mississippi State was her first season in the US.
Having already adapted to NCAA basketball, the 6’6 center can be expected to flourish next season.
Clara Silva
The freshman from Portugal became only the second player in Kentucky’s history to reach the height of 6’7 and one of only 15 players in the NCAA to stand at that height or above. She initially committed to Virginia Tech but chose to follow Kenny Brooks to Kentucky after he was appointed head coach.
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Silva has three years remaining of eligibility and has now committed to TCU.
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