Former St. John’s basketball guard Oziyah Sellers enters transfer portal after gaining fifth year of eligibility
· Yahoo Sports
The college basketball landscape was rocked by yet another massive rule change over this weekend. A federal judge from Colorado granted an injunction declaring that high school class of 2022 athletes were eligible for a fifth season of play, retroactively applying the NCAA’s new five-year eligibility model to this cohort.
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Predictably, many fourth-year players are entering the transfer portal to use their additional year of eligibility, including former St. John’s guard Oziyah Sellers. On3 reported on Saturday morning that the California native will return to college basketball for one more season.
A member of last year’s star-studded transfer class, Sellers averaged 10.3 points, 2.7 rebounds, and 1.6 assists on 42.9% shooting and 35.1% from three last season, leading the Johnnies with 53 three-pointers made.
Sellers went unselected in the 2026 NBA draft and suited up for the New York Knicks in last month’s NBA Summer League, recording 5.8 points per game in five appearances off the bench.
Unlike fellow seniors Zuby Ejiofor and Bryce Hopkins, Sellers retains his college basketball eligibility because he did not sign a standard NBA contract or a two-way deal. Dillon Mitchell can still return to college basketball since he has yet to ink a contract with the Boston Celtics, but he could potentially take one of the Celtics’ remaining two-way contract slots following an impressive Summer League performance that saw him average 13.0 points and 5.0 rebounds in three games.
It remains unclear if St. John’s intends to bring back Sellers or acquire one of the freshly eligible seniors, given they’ve reached a full 15-man roster following the commitment of Zsombor Maronka last month, though if Rick Pitino identifies a player he really loves and decides to make a move, it wouldn’t be the first time Pitino altered the roster deep into the offseason. In his first year in charge, back in July 2023, he acquired Harvard transfer Chris Ledlum following his late exit at Tennessee and shipped out Quinn Slazinski in a corresponding move, who would end up at West Virginia.
This Colorado injunction came hours after a Tennessee court ruled that 19 players, including one-time Red Storm guard A.J. Storr, were eligible for a fifth year and prevented the NCAA from barring them from entering the transfer portal. Storr has since entered the transfer portal, likely to play for a fifth different team in five collegiate seasons.