NC State senior wing Jakia Brown-Turner to enter transfer portal
NC State will need to replace at least 2 members of its starting lineup in 2023. Senior wing Jakia Brown-Turner announced her plans to enter the transfer portal after spending four seasons with the Wolfpack.
Brown-Turner is the second member of the women’s basketball program to enter the portal since the end of the season, joining senior center Camille Hobby. Per GoPack.com, Brown-Turner and Hobby were the only two Wolfpack athletes to start all 32 games of the 2022-2023 season.
After scoring more than 1,000 points in her NC State career, the wing will look for a new collegiate home to spend her remaining year of college eligibility. Brown-Turner averaged 9.1 points and 3.9 rebounds per game this season, ranking third on the team in scoring average but leading the program in total points with 292. She also made 34 threes— the second most on the Wolfpack.
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Throughout her four years in Raleigh, Brown-Turner was regularly one of the most clutch members of the the team. She hit four massive threes during NC State’s 2023 win over UNC and also scored a 2021-2022 season high 20 points against UConn in the NCAA Tournament elite 8, including a game-tying three to send the game to double overtime.
Brown-Turner was an All-ACC first team and Associated Press All-American honorable mention selection her sophomore year after averaging 13.5 points and 5 rebounds per game. As a recruit, she was a McDonald’s All-American and the 2019 Maryland Gatorade Player of the Year.
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.
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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.
