Wildens Leveque reportedly enters transfer portal
New South Carolina men’s basketball coach Lamont Paris will have to re-make most of the Gamecocks’ starting lineup from a season ago.
Junior center Wildens Leveque has entered the NCAA transfer portal, according to a report from Verbal Commits, which has consistently and accurately reported on portal entries.
Leveque has not yet personally confirmed the move.
The 6-foot-10 starting center is the fourth South Carolina player to enter the portal since Paris landed the job last week.
In that timespan, senior guards Eric Stevenson and Jermaine Couisnard and reserve freshman center TaQuan Woodley have all entered the portal.
As a junior this past season Leveque, started 28 games, playing in 29, averaging 6.6 points and 4.7 rebounds per game.
A native of Brockton, Mass., Leveque graduated from Gould Academy and signed with South Carolina men’s basketball as a three-star prospect in the 2019 class.
The On3Consensus – a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies – ranked Leveque as the No. 194 overall and No. 37 power forward in his class. He was the No. 1 prospect in Massachusetts.
As is often the case with coaching changes, Paris will have to rebuild a roster that to this point has lost four of five starters from a season ago, with three entering the portal and one (James Reese) out of eligibility.
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Stevenson, the first to enter the portal, is set to graduate in the spring and will enter as a graduate transfer. The Lacey, Washington native averaged 11.6 points this season on 36.9 percent shooting.
Couisnard, who entered next, is coming off arguably his best season at South Carolina where he led the team with 12 points per game on 39.6 percent shooting and 32.3 percent from three.
Woodley, who entered the portal Saturday, played in 26 games and averaged two points and three rebounds. He shot 56.1 percent from the field and 46.7 percent from the line.
The Gamecocks have also lost one verbal commitment since Frank Martin’s firing after Bryce Lindsay, a 6-foot-3 point guard out of Baltimore (Md.) St. Frances Academy, decommitted from the Gamecocks less than 48 hours after Martin was let go.
South Carolina is just under two weeks removed from firing Frank Martin, who recruited all of those players. South Carolina hired Lamont Paris officially Thursday.
At his introductory press conference, he mentioned meeting with each player individually and helping him find the best place for him if the player wants to transfer.
