SMU Mustangs guard Kendric Davis enters the transfer portal

According to Matt Zenitz of On3, SMU Mustangs guard Kendric Davis has entered the transfer portal. The leading scorer for the Mustangs last season, Davis will be one of the more sought-after players as he looks for a new home.

Davis played and started in 32 games for SMU last season, leading the AAC in scoring at 19.4 points per game. He additionally finished third in the conference with 4.4 assists per game. This will be his second time going through the transfer portal, initially committing to the TCU Horned Frogs. Now, Davis will be looking for the third program of his career.

Coming out of high school, Davis was a three-star prospect according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting services. Hailing from Houston, TX, the guard was a top 10 prospect within the state.

Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports is additionally reporting that Davis will also be testing the professional waters, going through the 2022 NBA draft process.

Trasnfer portal background information for Davis, SMU Mustangs

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.