West Virginia guard Jeremiah Bembry enters NCAA transfer portal

West Virginia guard Jeremiah Bembry has entered the transfer portal after just one season with the Mountaineers, according to On3’s Jamie Shaw.

Bembry appeared in just eight total games at WVU this season, playing three minutes per contest. He had previously transferred in from Florida State, where he attended in 2022-23 but redshirted.

Jeremiah Bembry played high school hoops at the Pillow Academy in New Jersey, where he was a three-star prospect. Bembry was the No. 279 overall recruit in the 2022 cycle, according to On3’s Industry Rankings, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.

Bembry is just the latest of many losses so far for West Virginia in the transfer portal amid the coaching change. They have landed a star in Tucker DeVries joining his father from Drake, but otherwise, there’s been a lot more exports than imports so far.

West Virginia hires general manager

Now at a Big 12 job in West Virginia, new Mountaineers head coach Darian DeVries has decided to hire a general manager for the program.

According to college hoops insider Jon Rothstein, DeVries has tapped Nelson Hernandez for the position, who had been on Mike Boynton’s staff at Oklahoma State before he was let go this offseason. Here was Rothstein’s tweet Saturday morning that news:

“Source: West Virginia’s Darian DeVries has hired Nelson Hernandez as General Manager. Hernandez was on staff at Oklahoma State last season.”

Hernandez only joined the Cowboys’ staff in August of 2023 just ahead of this past season. Boynton hired him as OSU’s Director of Player Development, giving the following statement when bringing him on board:

“Nelson will be a valuable addition to our staff. He has a ton of experience in various roles around college basketball. He will be responsible for many tasks that are vital to a program’s success, including on-campus recruiting, team travel, student-athlete development and more. I look forward to seeing his immediate, positive impact.”

In his prior coaching stops, Hernandez also served as the Director of Player Development for Wright State in 2015-16. Before getting that gig he had been a video coordinator at VCU from 2010-2014 and also at Clemson in 2014-25.

In between roles in Player Development at Wright State and Oklahoma State, Hernandez was the Director of Basketball Operations back at VCU in 2016-17 and then at LSU from 2017 until 2022 before landing his job at Oklahoma State.