Former LSU guard enters NCAA Transfer Portal

Former LSU guard Adam Miller, who transferred to the Tigers’ program and spent just one season with the team, has entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, On3’s Matt Zenitz has learned.

For a full list of NCAA Transfer Portal entries, click here.

A native of Chicago, Illinois, Miller was a highly-rated prospect in the 2020 recruiting cycle. After prepping at Morgan Park High School, Miller ranked as a four-star recruit, according to the On3 Consensus,  a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He was the No. 8 point guard in the 2020 recruiting class, as well as the No. 29-ranked recruit in the nation.

Miller played one season for the Illinois Fighting Illini during the 2020-21 season, but he did not burn a year of eligibility due to the COVID-19 blanket waiver. He transferred to LSU with four years of eligibility, only to tear his ACL and miss the entirety of the season.

Miller will presumably have four years of eligibility at his next stop, assuming he was granted a medical redshirt year. He never appeared in a game for LSU due to the injury, and he entered the NCAA Transfer Portal after LSU head coach Will Wade was fired.

In his one season at Illinois, Miller in the 2020-21 season averaged 25.5 minutes per game, along with 8.3 points, 2.8 rebounds and 0.8 assists.

More on the NCAA Transfer Portal after Miller enters

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.