Oregon center Franck Kepnang enters transfer portal

Oregon center Franck Kepnang officially entered the transfer portal on Wednesday evening, per On3’s Matt Zenitz. According to the On3 Consensus Rankings, he was rated as a four-star prospect in the 2020 recruiting class. Kepnang was also rated as the No. 80 overall prospect. He averaged 14.5 minutes per game last season for the Ducks, while stuffing the stat sheet with 4.7 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 1.2 blocks per game.

The native of Cameroon is blessed with an incredible amount of size at 6-foot-11, 250-pounds, so he will no doubt have no shortage of suitors in the transfer portal. He posted a career-high of 17 points against Arizona State on Dec. 5. Kepnang also blocked a season-high four shots three times, including in the Ducks’ road win against the No. 5 USC Trojans.

Since he reclassified into the 2020 recruiting class, he is still quite young as a prospect. It will be exciting to see where he lands across the college basketball landscape.

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.