The 26 Players With Best Names In College Basketball This Season

There are more than 5,000 players on the 365 men’s basketball team that currently compete at the Division I level, and I decided to spend more time than I care to admit combing through every single roster ahead of the start of the 2025-26 season to see which ones have names that stand out from the rest of the pack.

These are the college basketball players with the best names who are on a Division I roster heading into the 2025-26 season.

I wish I could tell you I had a firm set of criteria when it came to determining who made the cut, but to be honest, this was an exercise that was primarily based on vibes; it basically involved me scrolling for hours on end and pausing whenever I thought to myself, “That’s a sick name.”

There were some guys who I initially flagged who didn’t invoke the same feeling when I looked back at the list I’d compiled, but these are all of the ones that firmly went harder than the rest upon further review.

Po’Boigh King—Guard, Sam Houston

Mantas Kocanas—Center, Cal

Sir Issac Herron—Forward, Louisiana Tech

Butta Johnson—Guard, Clemson

Peteris Pinnis—Forward, Providence

Phat Phat Brooks—Guard, Central Michigan

Leopold Levillain—Forward, Cal State Long Beach

Legend Smiley—Shooting Guard, San Francisco

Royal Blue Smith—Guard, Arkansas State

Buddy Hammer Jr.—Forward, UNT

Tennessee Rainwater—Guard, Le Moyne

Poohpha Warakulnukroh—UCF

Godslove Nwabude-Eastern Michigan

Trevon Blassingame—Guard, Idaho

Solo Ball—UConn

Wiggy Ball—UL Monroe

Treysen Eaglestaff—Forward, WVU

Chandler Bing—Vanderbilt

Donovan Draper—Navy

Vyctorius Miller—Oklahoma State

Cash McSweeney—Princeton

Money Williams—Montana

Greedy Williams—UNC Wilmington

Maximus Gizzi—Guard, Minnesota

Always Wright—UT Rio Grande Valley

All Wright—Xavier

Congratulations to everyone who made the list.