Oregon lands commitment from former Central Michigan guard Jesse Zarzuela
Oregon reinforced its backcourt by adding a former MAC standout.
Jesse Zarzuela, a 6-foot-3 guard who spent last season at Central Michigan, has committed to join Dana Altman’s Ducks according to a report from On3’s Joe Tipton.
Last season at Central Michigan, Zarzuela averaged 16.3 points on 39.9% shooting, including 35% from three-point range on 6.9 attempts per game in 17 games, including seven starts.
According to 247 Sports, Zarzuela was a 3-star recruit in the class of 2019 and the No. 458 player in the nation. He began his career at UTEP, where he redshirted.
He spent the 2019-20 season at Navarro College in Texas and then spent the 2020-21 season at Missouri State West Plains.
Then next season, he transferred to Coppin State and averaged 14.7 points per game.
Zarzuela becomes Oregon’s fourth transfer portal addition of the offseason.
Devan Cambridge (Arizona State), Kario Oquendo (Georgia), and Jadrian Tracey (Florida Southwestern State) have also joined the Ducks.
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.
