Notre Dame guard Cormac Ryan plans to enter Transfer Portal and declare for 2023 NBA Draft

Veteran Notre Dame guard Cormac Ryan has entered the Transfer Portal with a “no contact tag” according to On3’s Jamie Shaw. And per College hoops insider Jon Rothstein, Ryan will also declare for the 2023 NBA Draft as he heads into the offseason. Rothstein tweeted Friday that Ryan will test the draft waters but maintain his collegiate eligibility, and should he ultimately decide to come back to school, he’s entering the portal as well, so he could look to spend his final year outside of South Bend.

Ryan spent the last four years at Notre Dame, where he sat out in 2019-20 after transferring from Stanford and then played in 2021, ’22 and ’23, averaging 10.1 points per game over his three seasons with the Irish and was a full-time starter the last two seasons for Mike Brey’s club. Should he return to the college ranks, Ryan should be a hot commodity as a shooter with proven scoring ability at the power five level.

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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.