Michigan Wolverines forward Brandon Johns enters transfer portal

According to Joe Cook of Inside Texas, Michigan Wolverines forward Brandon Johns Jr. has entered the NCAA transfer portal. Spending four years in Ann Arbor, Johns will now be looking for a new home to play his final season of college basketball.

Johns played in 31 games this season for the Wolverines, getting to start in nine of them. Throughout the course of the year, he averaged 3.2 points per game, with a season-high of 20 coming early in the year against the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Johns was not able to break double figures at any other point.

Originally a member of the 2018 recruiting class, Johns was ranked a four-star prospect by the On3 Consensus. He went to East Lancing High School and was ranked the No. 1 player in the state of Michigan. His hometown Michigan State Spartans offered alongside the Indiana Hoosiers, Iowa Hawkeyes, Purdue Boilermakers, and Texas Longhorns before Michigan won out.

Transfer portal background information for Michigan Wolverines, Johns

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.