Texas Basketball: 5 best remaining 2019 transfer prospects

One scholarship remains for the Texas basketball program heading into the summer months in 2019. Who could that be used on?

The Texas basketball program had a quiet off-season thus far after winning the NIT Championship Game over the Lipscomb Bison back in April. Most of the news for Texas basketball since the end of the NIT run came by way of missing out of targeted high school prospects for the 2019 recruiting cycle and losing players to the NCAA Transfer Portal.

Head Texas basketball coach Shaka Smart could really use good news by way of either the recruiting trail or the transfer portal. The fans, locker room, and coaching staff all need a boost from what mostly had to be a quiet and below mediocre off-season for the program thus far.

Plus, there’s only so much that Texas basketball can do on the recruiting trail to keep pace with the rampant Big 12 this coming season. The Big 12 is one of the best and deepest college basketball conferences in the nation year-in-and-year-out now. Success on the recruiting trail just doesn’t seem to be getting it done of late.

However, there is still one open scholarship for Texas that was left by the transfer of rotational shooting guard Elijah Mitrou-Long. His departure could actually bring a more talented player with a higher ceiling to the Forty Acres. But at what cost? Texas might value a less talented but immediately eligible transfer candidate over one with a higher ceiling that has to sit out a year.

Here’s a look into the five best names remaining for the Texas Longhorns basketball program in the NCAA Transfer Portal to target for the rest of the 2019 off-season.