When it comes to the college basketball transfer portal, you typically see the majority of players go portaling in the spring. That’s because the NCAA implemented a transfer window that opens on March 18th and closes on May 1st.

However, there was a loophole to get around that. Graduate transfers were allowed to go portaling whenever they wanted, so even though most players would enter the portal in the spring, we’d see significant names go portaling in the summer and even into the fall.

Not anymore.

Per ESPN’s Jeff Borzello, the NCAA quietly made a change last week that states grad transfers also must enter the portal by the May 1st deadline to be eligible for next season.

If any player in America is planning to go portaling, they need to file their paperwork by May 1st.

However, Borzello clarified that this does not affect schools with a coaching change. In the case of BYU, because Mark Pope left, their players can enter the portal for 30 days from the day Pope left to join the Kentucky Wildcats.

So, in the case of, say, Jaxson Robinson, he still has until May 12 to enter the portal and potentially become a Kentucky target.

Still, this is big news for the sport, one that will effectively eliminate players entering the transfer portal after the spring, barring a coaching change.

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