South Carolina senior guard enters transfer portal
South Carolina is losing a senior guard and statistically the best three-point shooter on the team, GamecockCentral confirmed Monday.
Senior guard Chico Carter Jr. entered the transfer portal today, the second time he’s entered the portal in his basketball career.
Carter, after playing sparingly last season, averaged 9.8 points and 1.8 boards per game this year. He shot shooting 47.1 percent from the field and 47.6 percent from three.
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Carter played in 25 games this year, all starts, before knee tendinitis ended his season with seven games to play. Without Carter in the lineup, South Carolina finished the regular season 3-4 and with a loss in the SEC Tournament.
The Columbia-native started his career at Murray State before transferring to the Gamecocks before the start of the 2021-22 season.
He only averaged 9.5 points over 24 games (one start) that season before chiseling out a role as a starter this year until the knee injury.
Carter will be most-known this year for hitting a buzzer-beating shot to take down Clemson in November.
The 6-foot-2 guard just finished his fourth year of college basketball. He has one year of eligibility left because of the COVID-19 pandemic, if he wants to use it.
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Tre-Vaughn Minott and Ja’Von Benson were the first two scholarship players to enter the transfer portal. Walk-on Ford Cooper entered Wednesday afternoon.
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Monday was the first day undergraduate transfers could officially enter the portal.
Entering the portal window opening, South Carolina was at its scholarship limit with an open scholarship and Hayden Brown leaving. Every entry into the portal or entry into the NBA would free up a scholarship for a transfer portal prospect.
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GG Jackson obviously has a decision to still make. The five-star has to decide whether or not to leave and go pro or come back to college for a second season.
The Gamecocks will also enroll two freshmen as part of the 2023 recruiting class.
The first is four-star forward and top-100 prospect Collin Murray-Boyles, who is coming off a strong senior season at Wasatch Academy.
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The other is three-star wing Arden Conyers, who also plays locally at Westwood (S.C.). Conyers still has to continue working on his body but can really shoot the ball and space the floor.
South Carolina is coming off an 11-20 regular season that ended with a first-round loss in the SEC Tournament last week.
After the game, a trio of players–Meechie Johnson, Jacobi Wright and Josh Gray–all indicated likely returns next season.
