Report: Former Arizona and Boise State wing Emmanuel Akot out of NBA draft

20200517_134556by:Justin Rudolph•05/27/22

Former Boise State wing Emmanuel Akot has removed his name from the 2022 NBA Draft, according to Jon Rothenstein. The senior has elected to stay in college for one more season and has elected to remain in the transfer portal.

Akot has received plenty of interest from top teams in the Big 12 since entering the transfer portal. He was recently linked to Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech, to name a few. The former Arizona Wildcat turned former Bronco has also been linked to SEC power Alabama.

Whichever team does land Akot is getting a solid scorer. He averaged 10.6 points per game on 40 percent shooting from the field last season. But it’s Akot’s 3-point shooting that makes him a danger when on the floor. The 6-foot-8 forward shot nearly the same percentage from 3-point range, but he did from the field. Akot shot 38.7 percent from beyond the arc, making 55 of his 142 attempts.

More on the Transfer Portal

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.