Five More Players Oklahoma State Has Reportedly Made Contact With in the Transfer Portal

PORTAL TRACKER

Tis the season for posts like “Basketball Transfer X has heard from the following list of 15 schools.”

Obviously that player can’t end up at all 15 of those schools, but it’s hard for fans to not start imagining what that player would look like in their team’s favorite colors.

The men’s basketball transfer portal opened Tuesday, and OSU has already appeared on many of those lists as Steve Lutz and Co. could end up needing to take as many as nine players out of the poral.

On Wednesday we took a look at five players the Cowboys reportedly showed interest in. Then Thursday we shared a report that San Diego State guard BJ Davis had set up an OSU visit. Well, here are five more players who have been linked with the Pokes since the portal window opened.

Quick note: The “Years Remaining” section on these is based on a four-year career rather than the proposed five-year career (someone make eligibility make sense again, please).

CJ Brown, USF

Height: 6-foot-2
Hometown: Marietta, Georgia
Years Remaining: 2

Brown was initially linked with the Pokes on Wednesday, the day after the portal opened, by College Basketball Content, an account that reported Friday morning that Brown has a call scheduled with OSU on Sunday. He’s also reportedly visiting High Point this weekend and has a call with Georgia Tech scheduled for Friday.

Brown averaged 10.9 points, 3.9 rebounds and 4.7 assists a game as a sophomore for the Bulls this past season. That includes a 24-point, 10-assists double-double against the Cowboys from November in Gallagher-Iba Arena.

He’s a prolific 3-point shooter, making 42% of his 241 attempts this past season. For reference, Anthony Roy attempted 231 3s and hit at a 39% clip.

Brown was a member of the AAC’s All-Freshman team in 2024-25, a season in which he averaged 7.2 points, 2.3 boards and 2.5 assists in 31 games.

He was a four-star prospect coming out of Kell High School. 247Sports listed him as the No. 114 player in the 2024 class, and he also had offers to Georgia, Georgia Tech, Mississippi State and others.

Jerald Colonel, Stephen F. Austin

Height: 6-foot-9
Hometown: Savannah, Georgia
Years Remaining: 1 (but maybe 2)

Colonel Colonel, Secretary of Defense.

Colonel was voted the Southland Defensive Player of the Year this past season and has been on the conference’s All-Defense Team the past two seasons.

He has heard from Oklahoma State along with Ole Miss, LSU, SMU, Syracuse and others, according to The Athletic’s Tobias Bass.

Colonel averaged five points, 7.3 boards and a league-leading 2.6 blocks a game this past season. He had one double-double on the year — an 11-point, 13-rebound performance against New Orleans where he also had four blocks. He had six blocks in two separate games and finished with double digit rebounds in six total games.

His block percentage ranked 10th nationally, per KenPom.

So, what you’d be getting here is a defender. Colonel doesn’t score a ton and has attempted just one 3-pointer in 1,467 minutes at the Division-I level. But what the Pokes need is defense, as OSU finished 158th in KenPom’s adjusted defensive efficiency this past season.

Colonel spent the 2024-25 season at Northwestern State, where he averaged 4.7 boards, 5.7 rebounds and a league-leading 2.2 blocks a contest.

He was at Chipola College (a JUCO in Florida) the two seasons before that. He averaged 9.1 points, 6.6 boards and 1.4 blocks a game in his final season there.

Kayden “Bugg” Edwards, TCU

Height: 6-foot-2
Hometown: Fort Worth, Texas
Years Remaining: 3

Steve Lutz and Co. were in Edwards’ Top 5 when he was coming out of Duncanville High School last year. Could the Cowboys land him the second time around?

Edwards was a Top 50 player in the 2025 recruiting class, per 247Sports, where he picked TCU over a final group that also included OSU, LSU, Colorado and USC.

There were two reports Wednesday that OSU was in the initial group to reach out to Edwards when he hit the portal, but Sam Kayser notes that Edwards has prepped visits to Creighton and UNLV this weekend.

Edwards took part in 14 games as a freshman with the Horned Frogs this past season, where he averaged 3.2 points in about six minutes.

Bryce Lindsay, Villanova

Height: 6-foot-3
Hometown: Baltimore
Years Remaining: 1

If you remember all the way back to 2021, Mike Boynton-led Oklahoma State made the top group for Lindsay when he was coming out of high school.

He has since played at Texas A&M, James Madison and Villanova. Kayser reported Wednesday that OSU is in a deep group of programs to reach out, a list that also includes Louisville, Kentucky, St. John’s and North Carolina.

Lindsay averaged 12.3 points a game for the Wildcats this past season while hitting 78 3s at a 38% clip.

That came off a sophomore season at James Madison where Lindsay put up 13.4 points a game while shooting 41% from deep.

Eli Rice, Penn State

Height: 6-foot-8
Hometown: Gallatin, Tennessee
Years Remaining: 2

Rice is 6-foot-8 and can shoot the 3 — that’s valuable.

Bass reported Thursday that OSU is involved along with Utah, UCF, Tulane and others.

He averaged 6.7 points and 1.7 rebounds a game as a redshirt sophomore for the Nittany Lions this past season while shooting 39% from 3 on 105 attempts (15 fewer attempts than VJ Miller, for reference).

Rice did that while coming off injury. He had to redshirt after playing only one game during the 2024-25 season after suffering said injury.

He played his freshman season at Nebraska, appearing in 17 games where he averaged 4.2 points.