Missouri guard Kaleb Brown withdraws from transfer portal, announces return for 2023-24 season
Missouri wing Kaleb Brown, the brother of former Tiger star Kobe Brown, announced on Tuesday via Twitter that he will withdraw from the Transfer Portal and return to the team for the 2023-24 season. Brown originally put his name in the portal back in April but has now decided to return.
Brown will enter his third season in the program and has yet to play much of a role in two years in Columbia with two separate coaches. In year one, Brown showed up in 27 games and even got a start, but then saw action in just 11 games and for less minutes per contest than as a rookie.
Assuming he matures mentally and physically as a player this summer, plus the gaping hole the departure of his brother left, the younger Brown has minutes waiting for him if he’s ready to earn them. He’s listed as a guard by the team website, but at 6-6 and 265 pounds, he’ll start the season as the heaviest player on the team. Dennis Gates could really use a leap out of Brown in his big bro’s footsteps.
Here was his post announcing the decision to pull out of the portal:
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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.
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.