North Texas transfer Tylor Perry reveals 12 finalists for portal decision

Former North Texas superstar Tylor Perry has been one of the most coveted college basketball prospects in the transfer portal this offseason. The Conference USA Player of the Year was one of the most complete players in college basketball last season, averaging 17.3 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 2.1 assists per game. Perry poured in 20 points in carrying North Texas to a NIT championship over UAB. He also earned Most Outstanding Player honors in the NIT, among other accolades.

As you might imagine, his list of suitors across the college basketball landscape has been quite extensive this offseason and on Saturday afternoon, the highly coveted transfer portal prospect revealed 12 finalists: Baylor, Florida, Texas Tech, Arkansas, Louisville, Tennessee, Wake Forest, Oklahoma, Creighton, Minnesota, Stanford, and Oklahoma State. On April 3rd, Perry announced that he was entering the 2023 NBA Draft on his Twitter page, while also maintaining his college eligibility.

Perry also announced that he was entering the transfer portal. On3 currently ranks him as the No. 28 overall prospect in the On3 2023 Transfer Portal Rankings.

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Tylor Perry narrowing his finalists and more information on the transfer portal

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.