NC State transfer Manny Bates receiving interest from Auburn, Ohio State among six
NC State transfer power forward Manny Bates is receiving interest from six high-major college basketball programs as he explores his options, according to CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein. The former Wolfpack forward entered the transfer portal March 29. Auburn, Georgetown, Houston, Illinois, Iowa State and Ohio State have been in touch with Bates, Rothstein reported Monday on Twitter, citing Bates.
A redshirt junior with the Wolfpack in 2021-22, Bates logged one game before missing the rest of the season due to a right shoulder injury. During his redshirt-sophomore season in 2020-21, Bates averaged 9.8 points on 64.1% shooting while adding 5.4 rebounds in 24 games (23 starts).
Bates was a redshirt freshman at NC State in 2019-20, averaging 5.1 points and four rebounds per game over 29 contests while starting 26.
A four-star recruit from Fayetteville (N.C.) Northwood Temple Academy, Bates was the industry-generated 247Sports Composite’s No. 104 overall prospect, No. 13 center and No. 8 player in North Carolina for the Class of 2018.
“The No. 12 ranked transfer on our second ranking of the portal, Bates is coming off an injury, but he has plenty of size and athleticism at 6-foot-10 and 230 pounds,” 247Sports national basketball director Eric Bossi wrote April 1. “He’s a rim protector who can really run the floor and has reportedly heard from the likes of Auburn, Georgia Tech, Houston, Illinois, LSU, Miami, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Texas Tech and Virginia Tech among many others.”
The NCAA introduced the transfer portal Oct. 15, 2018, providing athletes a path to explore their options. Players do not need to ask permission from their coaching staff in order to transfer. They merely need to request that compliance enter their name. Usually, it takes 24-48 hours for a player to appear following their request. Schools are free to contact a player without restriction once their name appears in the portal.
While a player entering their name in the transfer portal means they intend to explore their options, it does not necessarily mean they will leave. A player is free to withdraw his name at any time. However, schools are under no obligation to keep a player on scholarship once they enter the portal.
There were 2,646 FBS players to enter the transfer portal during the 2020-21 transfer cycle, sources said. That is up from 1,692 in 2019-20 and 1,717 in 2018-19.
That increase can at least partially be credited to the NCAA’s new policy that student-athletes are allowed to transfer once in their careers without having to sit out a year-in-residence. That means all players who enter the transfer portal for the first time will be immediately eligible at their new school as long as they meet a NCAA-mandated entry deadline.
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