Forward Dom Campbell becomes third Notre Dame transfer portal entrant on first day of window
Monday was the first day for undergraduate college players to enter the transfer portal. Notre Dame, a program amid a coaching search, seemed likely to produce a few entrants right away. Three by 11 a.m., it turns out.
The latest? Freshman forward Dom Campbell.
Campbell, who averaged 0.7 points and 1.2 rebounds in 10 games this season, joined freshman guard JJ Starling and grad student guard Robby Carmody as portal entrants Monday. He has three years of eligibility left.
“With the change in coaching staff and the uncertainty of the next head coach, I will be entering the transfer portal,” Campbell wrote in a statement posted to his Instagram account. “I am keeping all options open, including a return to Notre Dame.”
The 6-foot-9, 268-pound Campbell totaled 7 points, going 2 of 9 from the field and 3 of 7 from the foul line. He averaged 3.5 minutes per game and played a season-high 8 in a Jan. 7 loss to North Carolina, with 3 points and 2 rebounds. He missed time in December with an ankle injury and in February with inflammation in both Achilles tendons.
Notre Dame viewed the 2022-23 season as a developmental year for Campbell, mainly to improve his conditioning. The Irish initially explored having him enroll in January 2022 as a mid-year and redshirt that semester.
“Dom is really getting in shape,” then-head coach Mike Brey said in July. “This has been the most taxing physically on him that he’s ever been through. He’s fighting through it. He has come a long way.”
Campbell was still a key piece in Notre Dame’s 2022 class, though. He was one of three top-130 prospects in that group, which was On3’s No. 16-ranked class. He was the No. 128 overall recruit and No. 19 center in the 2022 On3 Industry Ranking. He committed to the Irish over Stanford and Oklahoma in July 2021. He’s a native of Scarborough, Maine. He played his last two seasons of high school basketball at Exeter (N.H.) Phillips Exeter Academy.
The three transfer portal departures Monday leave Notre Dame with four returning scholarship players, as it stands: freshman forward Ven-Allen Lubin, sophomore guard JR Konieczny, junior guard Tony Sanders Jr. and junior forward Matt Zona. If any of those four wishes to enter his name in the portal, the window to do so runs through May 11.
The Irish have one 2023 signee: Mishawaka (Ind.) Penn three-star guard Markus Burton. Two other signees — four-star guard Parker Friedrichsen and three-star wing Brady Dunlap — were granted their releases in the days following the Jan. 19 announcement that Brey would step down at season’s end.
Players who enter the transfer portal can return to their old team, but the team is not obligated to take them back.
