How Kentucky, Kansas, Florida contend for Milan Momcilovic in transfer portal

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Milan Momcilovic has the potential to be the most impactful pickup in the entire college basketball transfer portal.

Teams like Kentucky, Kansas and Florida could all be in the mix for the star shooter from Iowa State.

Momcilovic has both entered the NBA Draft and the transfer portal, so this could go a lot of different ways.

"Momcilovic has his sights set on the NBA Draft, but if he returns to college basketball, he is a plug-and-play difference-maker for anybody because he has an elite trait," Isaac Trotter of CBS Sports wrote in his transfer rankings. "Florida, Kentucky and Kansas will be in the mix if this recruitment opens up."

There's no one else like Momcilovic available.

He made 49% of his 3-pointers in the 2025-26 season for the Cyclones, taking 7.5 attempts per game and absolutely letting it fly from difficult angles and making them anyway. He's an absurdly good shooter.

Really, every team in the country would want Momcilovic if he expressed any interest in them.

"Momcilovic is the best shooter in all of college basketball," Trotter writes. "No one made more triples than Momcilovic (136), and the 6-foot-8, 225-pound forward makes tough shots look remarkably easy. Momcilovic's fadeaway midrange jumper is almost impossible to deflect, and it serves as a needed counter to his barrage of off-movement triples that he can uncork even if a defender is draped nearby. The shot-making is so pure that it covers up some of Momcilovic's warts (no offensive rebounding, little creation, no rim pressure and average defense)."

It wouldn't be a shock to hear other big-name programs mentioned, too.

There is a risk in getting his transfer commitment only to have him enter the draft for good, but it's a risk worth taking.