On Wednesday evening, North Dakota State guard transfer Jacari White released a cutdown list that featured five teams.
Two Big 12 teams, Houston and West Virginia, were involved in the battle for White’s services and were also joined by Virginia Tech, Texas, and Ole Miss.
Last season with the Bison, White posted some elite scoring numbers. The Orlando native averaged 17.1 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 2.3 assists per game on 45.2% shooting from the field. He also connected on 39.8% of shots from three-point land and 85.2% of shots from the charity stripe.
Coming out of State College of Florida Junior College in the Class of 2022, White was listed as an unranked prospect by most major recruiting services. After two seasons at NDSU, the 6-foot-3 guard blossomed into a four-star player on the 247Sports index and the 57th-ranked player in the transfer portal.
The transfer portal officially opened on Monday, March 24, 2025. According to NCAA data, 1,296 FBS basketball players entered the transfer portal in the 2023-24 school year, with 864 (66.7%) undergraduates and 432 (33.3%) graduate transfers. Of the entrants, 70% reported that they enrolled in another school, 6% withdrew their names from the portal, and 23% are still active, transferred to a non-NCAA school, or left their sport.
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