Missouri Tigers guard DaJuan Gordon makes decision on future

Missouri Tigers junior guard DaJuan Gordon has elected to enter the NCAA basketball transfer portal. According to On3’s Jamie Shaw, the former Tiger made the decision to do so on Wednesday afternoon.

Gordon is a six-foot-three combo guard out of Chicago, IL, from the 2019 recruiting class. In his class, he was a top 200 player a high three-star recruit. Gordon was the fifth best player in his draft to come out of the state of Illinois, and the 37th ranked shooting guard in the nation. He received attention from schools all over the country, which included New Mexico, Xavier, and Ole Miss, before committing to Kansas State for the 2019-2020 season. He spent two years with the Wildcats before electing to transfer to Missouri before the start of last season.

In the end, Gordon leaves Missouri, averaging 8.3 points per game, 4.0 rebounds, 1.2 assists per game, and shooting just over 40% from the field.

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.