Former West Virginia PF Tre Mitchell commits to Kentucky

Former West Virginia power forward Tre Mitchell committed to Kentucky for his fifth season of college basketball in 2023-24.

He’ll be an immediate plug and play for John Calipari and company. After productive seasons at three different schools, he could increase his NBA Draft stock for 2024.

Mitchell bounced around in his college career at UMass, Texas and West Virginia. He put up his biggest scoring numbers at UMass (18.8 points per game in 2020-21) but was productive last season.

Over the course of his career, Mitchell averaged 13.7 points per game, 5.9 rebounds per game, 1.8 assists per game, shot 48.3% from the floor and 34.7% from three-point range.

As a member of the Class of 2019, Mitchell was a four-star recruit out of Pittsburgh (Pa.) Woodstock Academy, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He was the No. 2 overall prospect out of Connecticut, the No. 15 power forward in the class and the No. 80 overall prospect in the class.

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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. 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.