Nine schools reach out quickly to Michigan transfer Frankie Collins

Michigan transfer Frankie Collins has quickly become one of the most coveted college basketball prospects left in the 2022 transfer portal. On3’s college basketball recruiting expert Joe Tipton tweeted out this evening that nine teams have reached out to him including: Arizona State, Texas A&M, Wichita State, Murray State, Seton Hall, BYU, GCU, Vanderbilt, and Tennessee. As a high school prospect in the 2021 class, Collins was rated as a four-star recruit and the No. 47 overall player in the class, according to the On3 Consensus Rankings.

Collins hit the portal a day ago. He averaged 2.8 points per game in 11 minutes per contest this season for the Wolverines. He joins former Michigan guard Zeb Jackson as players transferring out of the program. Collins shot 42.7 percent from the floor this season, but only 16.7 percent from three-point range and 44.1 percent from the free throw line. He also averaged 1.4 assists to 1.1 turnovers per game this year.

It should be noted that midnight on Sunday night, May 1st is the deadline for prospects to enter the transfer portal. Athletes must notify their school of intent to transfer in writing by May 1. However, that does not necessarily mean the player appears in the portal by May 1. The school then has two business days to do paperwork and enter the athlete into the portal, per Adam Breneman.

For all the latest information and updates on where college basketball prospects are headed this offseason, keep it locked to the 2022 On3 Transfer Portal Wire.

More on the NCAA Transfer Portal

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.