Texas Tech forward Devan Cambridge entering transfer portal, seeking medical hardship waiver for 7th year of CBB

Texas Tech forward Devan Cambridge is entering the transfer portal, he told On3.

The 6-foot-6 senior has not been with the Red Raiders program since early December as he is seeking a medical hardship waiver in order to play his seventh year of college basketball next season.

Cambridge has battled injuries since his arrival to Lubbock in 2023. In the past two seasons with the program, the Nashville native appeared in a combined 14 games. He was averaging 5.5 points per game this season before stepping away from the program and averaged 10.5 points last season for Grant McCasland and Co.

Texas Tech is not his first stop as Cambridge began his college career at Auburn in 2019. He played three years for Bruce Pearl; his most successful season as a sophomore in which he averaged 8.9 points per game for the Tigers. After his junior year on The Plains, Cambridge entered the transfer portal and landed at Arizona State. He spent a single season with the Sun Devils (9.8 PPG), before landing at Texas Tech.

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.

Track transfer portal activity

While the NCAA Transfer Portal database is private, the On3 Network has streamlined the reporting process tracking player movement. If you find yourself asking, ‘How can I track transfer portal activity?’ our well-established network of reporters and contacts across college athletics keeps you up to speed in several ways, from articles written about players as they enter and exit the transfer portal or find their new destination, to our social media channels, to the On3 Transfer Portal.

The transfer portal wire provides a real-time feed of player activity, including basic player profile information, transfer portal ranking and original On3 Industry recruiting ranking, as well as NIL valuation (name, image and likeness).

The On3 Transfer Portal Rankings allow for you to filter the On3 Industry Rankings to find the best of the best in the portal, starting with Overall Top Players. 

The On3 Transfer Portal Instagram account and Twitter account are excellent resources to stay up to date with the latest moves.