Villanova Guard Kris Parker Enters Transfer Portal

Villanova guard Kris Parker entered the transfer portal on Tuesday, April 8, per a report from On3 National Basketball Reporter Joe Tipton.

Parker, a rising redshirt sophomore, retains three seasons of eligibility. He played sparingly for the Wildcats during the 2024-25 season, transferring in from Alabama. Parker averaged 2.6 points, 1.4 rebounds and 0.5 assists with Villanova, his 10.1 minutes per game the team’s third-highest mark off the bench.

A 6-foot-9 presence at guard out of Tallahassee, Fla., Parker took a redshirt year with the Crimson Tide, adding weight rather than seeing the court after an offseason eye injury got him off to a slow start.

He followed a similar trajectory at Villanova, breaking a toe and missing more than two months of the offseason.

Parker’s departure marks the second Wildcats’ transfer of the offseason, joining rising senior Nnanna Njoku. The Wildcats currently have ten players on their roster ahead of the 2025-26 campaign: they’ll lose all five of their starters this past season to graduation along with the two aforementioned transfers, but will gain class of 2025 four-star recruit Chris Jeffrey along with Maryland transfer Malachi Palmer.

Kris Parker could’ve chosen to transfer for any number of reasons in the free-wheeling era of the portal. Incoming coaches like Wildcats’ head man Kevin Willard give players and assistants from the previous regime an idea of how their role will or won’t change under new leadership, or Parker simply could’ve wanted a fresh start somewhere else.