Wisconsin transfer Chucky Hepburn has committed to Louisville
Wisconsin transfer Chucky Hepburn has committed to Louisville, a source tells 247Sports.
A 6-foot-2, 195-pound power forward out of Omaha (Neb.) Hepburn earned All Big Ten Honorable Mention and Defensive Team honors this past season after averaging 9.2 points, 3.9 assists and 3.3 rebounds per game.
Hepburn chose the Cardinals after visiting Louisville this week.
With his commitment, Hepburn is the eighth portal addition for Pat Kelsey this offseason. He joins Koren Johnson, Reyne Smith, Terrence Edwards, J’Vonne Hadley, Aly Khalifa, Aboubacare Traore and James Scott as the transfers on Louisville’s revamped roster next season.
Ranked as a four-star transfer in 247Sports college basketball portal rankings, Hepburn has a year of eligibility remaining.
The transfer portal opened on March 18th and will remain open until Wednesday, May 1st.
Anytime during that window, a player can submit paperwork to their current school to request a transfer and within 48-hours of receiving the paperwork, a player must be submitted into the NCAA Portal database.
Before the window opens on March 18th and after the window closes on May 1st, players who have earned enough credits to graduate are able to enter the portal at any time, listed as a “Grad Transfer”.
Simultaneously, with any coaching movement – whether a head coach is fired or gets another job – players of that team are also given a 30-day window in which they can enter the portal which is not bound to the March 18th-May 1st window.
When a player has officially entered the portal, other schools are permitted to contact the player and begin the recruiting process.