Jaxon Etter becomes eighth Georgia basketball player in transfer portal

Georgia basketball guard Jaxon Etter has entered the transfer portal, according to On3’s Matt Zenitz. The local product started 22 games this season under previous head coach Tom Crean.

Since the departure of Crean, 12 of the 13 players who saw action in 2021 are seniors or entered the transfer portal this offseason. Etter is the eighth of those to enter the transfer portal and the seventh in the past three days.

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Jaxon Etter appeared in 60 games over three seasons as a walk-on at Georgia before entering the transfer portal. The 6-foot-4 guard averaged 5.1 points and 2.9 rebounds in the 2021 season while shooting 41.9 percent from the 3-point line.

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The Georgia native was an unranked prospect coming out of high school and joined as a walk-on in 2019.

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.