Creme: ESPN Top 10 portal winners 2025-26

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Women's college basketball's top 10 transfer portal winners: SEC leads the pack

Whether remaking rosters or filling needs, Tennessee, Ole Miss, South Carolina and LSU won the transfer portal.

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For the B1G, the usual suspect:

6. Maryland Terrapins​

Yarden Garzon, Indiana, G
Gracie Merkle, Penn State, C
Oluchi Okananwa, Duke, G

Since the advent of the transfer portal, no coach has consistently used it to remake her teams as quickly as Brenda Frese. She loses program mainstay Shyanne Sellers to the draft and immediately gets Garzon. Merkle enters the program just as Allie Kubek elects to leave. Sarah Te-Biasu has one successful season with the Terps from VCU and then in comes Okananwa to fill that spot. Garzon's size at 6-3, plus her point guard and shooting skills, will make her the centerpiece of a Maryland offense that might be even better than the one that was just the second-highest scoring team in the Big Ten.