LOOK: South Carolina transfer Keyshawn Bryant announces commitment to USF

Former South Carolina forward Keyshawn Bryant exited the transfer portal on Friday afternoon and officially committed to the South Florida Bulls, per his Twitter page. In early April, Bryant had officially declared for the 2022 NBA Draft. However, it appears he has changed his mind and he’ll be suiting up for South Florida.

Check out the post below from his Twitter page.

Ready for the next chapter 💚💪🏾@USFMBB pic.twitter.com/uGcZcYk9ek

— Keyshawn Bryant (@kiddbryant25) May 20, 2022

Last season for the South Carolina Gamecocks, Bryant averaged 8.7 points and 4.0 rebounds per game, while shooting 41 percent from the field. His best season came in 2020-2021 when he averaged 14.4 points and 5.4 rebounds under the team’s previous head coach, Frank Martin.

The 6-foot-5 forward came to South Carolina as a three-star recruit who was ranked No. 175 in the country in the 2018 On3 Consensus Rankings and the No. 16 player in his home state of Florida. He chose the Gamecocks over Memphis, Wichita State and others coming out of high school.

For updates on where all the different college basketball prospects across are headed this offseason, keep it locked to the 2022 On3 Transfer Portal Wire.

More on the NCAA 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 transfer 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.

On3’s James Fletcher III also contributed to this article.