NCAA DI Council approves change to transfer portal window across all sports

The NCAA DI council announced Wednesday morning that the transfer portal window, the time a player is allowed to enter the portal during specific points throughout the year, has been placed at a uniform 45 days across all DI sports.

The window was already sitting at 45 for college baseball and college softball, but men’s and women’s basketball and football were at 60 days until Wednesday’s decision.

For football this window will open for 30 days after the end of the season and 15 days in the spring following spring camp.

According to NCAA PR, these actions will not be approved until a final meeting on Wednesday.

The DI Council approved changes to transfer windows in all sports to 45 days, including:

?Men’s & women’s basketball: 45 days
?Football: 45 days (30 days after season, 15 days in spring)

Council actions are not final until meeting concludes today.

— NCAA PR (@NCAA_PR) October 4, 2023

According to a report from Matt Norlander, who covers college basketball for CBS, the expectation was that windows would be cut to 30 days uniform, but some pushback from the student-athlete committee forced a compromise at 45 days.

Cut-down was expected to go from 60 to 30, but feedback from student-athlete committee (not sport-specific) was for 45, so it’s an NCAA-wide compromise.

I was told there’s a potential pathway for CBB to get its window down to 30, but we’ll see if it powers-that-be pursue that. https://t.co/NGboBB1GMy

— Matt Norlander (@MattNorlander) October 4, 2023

Ethan Stone

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