Iona gaurd Adam Njie plans to enter transfer portal

Iona guard Adam Njie tells On3 plans to enter the transfer portal, he tells On3. The Gaels dismissed head coach Tobin Anderson after two seasons on Monday. The Gaels are coming off a 17-17 season in 2024-25, which included a run to the MAAC conference championship game.

The 6-foot-3, 175-pound guard averaged 12.4 points, 4.2 assists and 2.8 rebounds as a true freshman this season. A four-star recruit coming out of high school, a top-10 recruit in the state of New York.

Njie played at Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, averaging 21 points, eight assists and four rebounds per game as a senior. He was named a NYSSWA New York Class AAA All-State Third Team and CSHAA AA All-League Second Team.

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 asynchronous 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.