Former Arkansas guard KK Robinson transfers to Texas A&M Aggies

Former Arkansas guard KK Robinson officially announced his transfer destination on Sunday afternoon via his Twitter page and he’ll be staying in the SEC to play his college basketball for the Texas A&M Aggies next season. The 6-foot, 180-pound sophomore played in 19 games last season for the Hogs. While he was a highly regarded prospect coming out of high school, the former Arkansas native probably decided to leave Fayetteville after he saw the Razorbacks land three McDonald’s All-Americans in their stacked 2022 recruiting class. Arkansas landed three five-star prospects, according to the On3 Consensus Rankings.

The Hogs reeled in Nick Smith, Jordan Walsh, and Anthony Black — three of the game’s premier high school talents. The Razorbacks are expected to be one of the best teams in college basketball next season. According to the On3 Consensus Rankings for the 2022 class, Arkansas pulled in the nation’s No. 4 ranked recruiting class.

KK Robinson is a Little Rock native, but he went to high school in Virginia. Out of Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Virginia), he became the No. 4 prospect in Virginia from the Class of 2020, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He held offers from Illinois, Kansas, Florida and Iowa State, among others, out of high school.

For all the latest information and updates on where college basketball prospects are headed this offseason, keep it locked to the 2022 On3 Transfer Portal Wire.

More on the NCAA Transfer Portal

The NCAA Transfer Portal, which covers every NCAA sport at the Division I, II and III levels, is a private database with names of student-athletes who wish to transfer. It is not accessible to the public.

The process of entering the portal is done through a school’s compliance office. Once a player provides written notification of an intent to transfer, the office enters the player’s name in the database and everything is off and running. The compliance office has 48 hours to comply with the player’s request and that request cannot be refused.

Once a player’s name shows up in the portal, other schools can contact the player. Players can change their minds at any point and withdraw from the portal. However, once a player enters the portal, the current scholarship no longer has to be honored. In other words, if a player enters the portal but decides to stay, the school is not obligated to provide a scholarship anymore.

The database is a normal database, sortable by a variety of topics, including (of course) sport and name. A player’s individual entry includes basic details such as contact info, whether the player was on scholarship and whether the player is transferring as a graduate student.

A player can ask that a “do not contact” tag be placed on the report. In those instances, the players don’t want to be  contacted by schools unless they’ve initiated the communication.

The portal has been around since Oct. 15, 2018 and the new calendar cycle within the portal begins each August. For example, the 2021-22 cycle started Aug. 1. During the 2020-21 cycle, 2,626 FBS football players entered the transfer portal (including walk-ons). That comes after 1,681 entered during the 2019-20 cycle and 1,709 during the abbreviated 2018-19 cycle. In comparison, 1,833 Division I basketball players entered the portal during the 2020-21 cycle after totals of 1,020 in 2019-20 and 1,063 in 2018-19.

On3’s Nick Schultz also contributed to this article.