NCAA Tournament star, All-WAC guard Teddy Allen enters transfer portal
New Mexico State guard Teddy Allen, who arrived on the national stage after his 2022 NCAA Tournament performance, has entered the transfer portal, according to InsideTexas’ Joe Cook. After spending time at West Virginia, Western Nebraska Community College and Nebraska, he again looks for a new home for his final collegiate season.
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Teddy Allen is the brother of Texas forward Timmy Allen, who transferred to play under head coach Chris Beard in 2021. He also played at New Mexico State under new Mississippi State head coach Chris Jans last season.
In the 2021-22 season, Teddy Allen played in 34 games with 33 starts before opting to enter the transfer portal again. He averaged 19.6 points with 6.7 rebounds and 2.5 assists. During his one season at Nebraska, he started 21 games in the Big Ten and averaged 16.5 points.
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The former unranked recruit promises to have a long list of suiters in the transfer portal, with multiple schools already holding a connection to him.
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.
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.