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Rutgers star guard Cam Spencer enters college basketball transfer portal – 247Sports
Rutgers star guard Cam Spencer entered the college basketball transfer portal Friday morning, as NJ Advance Media’s Brian Fonseca first reported. The 6-foot-4, 207-pound Spencer — who transferred to the Scarlet Knights from Loyola Maryland before the 2022-23 season — was Rutgers’ leading scorer at 13.2 points per game.
Spencer was a senior but has one year of NCAA eligibility remaining due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A starter in all 34 of Rutgers’ games, Spencer shot 44.4% from the field and 43.4% on 3-pointers. He rounded out his production with averages of 3.1 assists and 3.8 rebounds in 31.6 minutes per game for Rutgers, which went 19-15 overall and 10-10 against Big Ten play while narrowly missing the 2023 NCAA Tournament among the first four teams out.
“Cam Spencer comes in this year, we didn’t know Cam,” Rutgers head coach Steve Pikiell said March 14, after a 88-86 loss to Hofstra in the first round of the 2023 NIT. “We recruited him. He’s just been unbelievable.”
In 58 games (42 starts) with Loyola Maryland from 2019-22, Spencer averaged 14.9 points on 46.8% shooting and a 38.8% clip from beyond the 3-point arc. He averaged a career-high 18.9 points in 2021-22, making the All-Patriot League First Team.
“Before going in, you kind of heard some stories about the transfer portal and how it has grown and grown every year,” Spencer said in August. “But for me, it was all about just picking the right fit and having a great relationship with the coach I was talking with and I found that in coach Pikiell right away.”
“The portal every day is popping up names,” Pikiell said in August. “I am very selective, too. I felt like we had a real need for shooting the ball and I knew he could do that at the highest level. I watched the North Carolina game. I watched the game where he played against the up teams and he was very productive. The more film I watched, the more I really liked him. Then I got him on the phone. Awesome family, real competitive. Really good people, good student, a team guy.”
In the first year of the portal windows, the college basketball transfer portal began March 13 and ran until May 11.
Numerous graduate transfers already entered the transfer portal prior to the March 13 opening, but that date kicked off the 60-day window for the rest of the prospective transfers to hop in the portal to examine their options. The one-time transfer rule is still intact, per usual. If a player has not transferred yet, they are immediately eligible.
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Name, image and likeness is going to be a factor in the transfer portal. It is no coincidence that some of the teams who continue to dominate the transfer portal also have structured NIL opportunities set up.
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