Clemson Tigers add South Carolina native Brevin Galloway from transfer portal
Native of South Carolina, former Boston College Eagles guard Brevin Galloway has announced his commitment for next season. On Tuesday evening, the senior guard announced that he would be returning to his home state to play for Boston College’s ACC rival, the Clemson Tigers.
Galloway spent the first five years of his collegiate career at the College of Charleston under head coach Earl Grant. When Grant left for Boston College last season, Galloway entered the transfer portal following closely behind. In his one season with the Eagles, the six-foot-two guard averaged 8.3 points, 1.5 rebounds, and 1.5 steals per game. Galloway started in five of the 25 games he played in at Boston College. Galloway let the world know of his decision to return to the state he calls home with this social media post.
Although Galloway is a graduate senior, he was granted an additional year of college eligibility due to a season-ending ACL injury back in December of 2020.
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.