College basketball transfer portal is closing — here's why that doesn't matter as a deadline to be worried about
This is a bit of a nuanced situation.
College basketball transfer portal is closing — here's why that doesn't matter as a deadline to be worried about originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The headlines will all say that the college basketball transfer portal has closed, and that'll be true.
The portal closes Tuesday, April 21 at 11:59 p. m. It stayed open for two weeks after going live on April 7.
But that deadline isn't quite what it seems. MORE: UNC gets first basketball transfer from NC State since World War II What happens when the transfer portal closes? The closing of the transfer portal doesn't mean that there can't be any more transfers.
What it means is that players cannot enter the portal after that deadline. Any player hoping to commit to a new school eventually has to be in the portal before it closes. Commitments can still be made at any time after the portal has closed, as long as the player was already in the transfer portal before it closed.