Auburn guard enters transfer portal, joining brother

Auburn guard Devan Cambridge has entered the transfer portal, according to On3’s Joe Tipton. The junior guard from Nashville, Tennessee opens his options in the same week his brother, Desmond, entered the transfer portal after three seasons at Nevada.

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Devan Cambridge, the younger of the two brothers, has appeared in 91 games for Auburn over three seasons before entering the transfer portal. He also made 33 starts with 14 coming this season. After averaging 8.9 points and 3.6 rebounds last season, Cambridge saw a reduced role in 2021-22 after the addition of Georgia transfer KD Johnson and others.

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He arrived at Auburn as an unranked prospect in the 2019 class but quickly asserted himself with 3-point shooting and rebounding at the guard position. Despite early success, his 3-point percentage has fallen each season and only reached 22.1 percent this year.

Transfer portal background information 

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.

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.