Western Kentucky basketball guard, former top recruit Zion Harmon enters transfer portal

Western Kentucky guard and former top recruit Zion Harmon has entered the NCAA transfer portal, On3 has learned.

Harmon ranked as the 10th-best point guard and 66th-best overall prospect in the 2021 recruiting class according to the On3 Consensus Rankings.

The Kentucky native didn’t play in any games for Western Kentucky last season.

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.

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.