Arizona State transfer Devan Cambridge reportedly set for Oregon visit
One of the top Pac-12 guards on the market is reportedly set for a visit to Oregon.
Devan Cambridge, a senior guard who started for Arizona State last season, plans to visit Dana Altman and the Ducks this weekend.
Jon Rothstein was the first to report Cambridge’s intention to visit Oregon.
A 6-foot-6, 215-pound shooting guard, Cambridge averaged 9.8 points and 5.4 rebounds in 36 games last season, including 35 starts. He shot a career-high 50.4% from the field, 33% from three-point range, and 65% from the free throw line.
Cambridge, a former 3-star recruit in the class of 2019, spent the first three seasons of his career at Auburn. He started 19 games for the Tigers during the 2021-22 campaign before transferring to ASU.
Per Rothstein, Cambridge is also considering Auburn, Texas Tech, and Clemson as he searches for his next school.
The Ducks are currently in the midst of an expansive roster overhaul.
Four Oregon players have hit the transfer portal since the end of the 2022-23 season — guard Rivaldo Soares, forward Lok Wur, guard Tyrone Williams, and center Kel’el Ware.
Ware committed to transfer to Indiana earlier this week.
Currently, the Ducks have 11 scholarship players on their 2023-24 roster.
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. 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.
