UAB forward Josh LeBlanc entering transfer portal

UAB is losing forward Josh LeBlanc to the transfer portal, according to Matt Zenitz of On3. Leblanc spent last season with the Blazers after spending two seasons with Georgetown, and one season at LSU.

“UAB basketball forward Josh LeBlanc, who previously played at LSU and Georgetown, has entered the transfer portal, @On3sports has learned,” Zenitz tweeted on Monday.

LeBlanc was a four-star recruit coming out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana when he joined Georgetown, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average. Over three seasons with the Hoyas and the Tigers, the forward averaged 6.6 points and 5.8 rebounds over 20.9 minutes per game.

Last season at UAB, LeBlanc averaged 4.6 points and 5.0 rebounds over 18.4 minutes per game. However, he missed the backend of the season, as the last game he was on the court for was a contest against Marshall on January 29.

Now, Josh LeBlanc will look for more opportunities at his next stop, hoping to use the lessons learned from Georgetown, LSU and UAB as he enters the transfer portal.

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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.