Louisville center Dennis Evans enters NCAA Transfer Portal

Louisville Cardinals center Dennis Evans has entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, according to On3’s Jamie Shaw.

Last season, the Cardinals center averaged 1.6 points and 0.9 rebounds per game. As a recruit, Evans was a four-star recruit out of Hillcrest (CA), where he was the No. 28 overall recruit in the nation, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.

His personal life tab on his On3 Elite Profile reads as follows:

“Dennis Evans had his growth spirit in seventh and eighth grade, growing 10 inches during that time. Now at 7-foot-1, Evans became a dominant force for Riverside (California) Hillcrest,” the profile reads. “He averaged 11.6 points, 10 rebounds and 7 blocks per game as a junior. During one game, he finished with a 16-block triple-double. He helped the 2022 USA Basketball Men’s U17 National Team win the gold medal at the 2022 FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup.

“He wears size 16 shoes and Riverside Hillcrest has ordered custom desks for him to work at in school.”

To keep up with the latest players on the move, check out On3’s Transfer Portal wire.

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 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.