Indiana guard Jakai Newton will enter the transfer portal, he announced on Instagram.
Newton spent two injury-plagued seasons in Bloomington and appeared in four games for the Hoosiers.
After missing the 2023-24 season, the Georgia native scored two points in a 90-55 win against Eastern Illinois on November 10 and four points in a 97-71 win against Sam Houston on December 3.
Newton played in just one Big Ten game, going scoreless in four minutes against Illinois on January 14. The Hoosiers fell 94-69 to the Fighting Illini.
A four-star recruit out of high school, Newton had multiple surgeries and was never consistently healthy during his time in Bloomington.
Newton committed to Indiana in October of 2021 and signed his National Letter of Intent in November of 2022.
He is the fourth IU player to enter the transfer portal this spring, joining Gabe Cupps, Malik Reneau and Mackenzie Mgbako.
The 6-foot-3 guard was a redshirt freshman this past season. If he is granted a medical redshirt for the 2024-25 season, he will have four seasons of eligibility remaining.
DePaul transfer guard Conor Enright set to visit Indiana MBB
According to multiple reports, DePaul transfer guard Conor Enright will visit Indiana, the news was first reported by On3’s Joe Tipton
Enright is set to visit the Iowa Hawkeyes March 31st and he will head to Bloomington, Indiana April 1st and 2nd according to his agent Dillion Buchanan of AMR Agency
Conor Enright and Darian DeVries were together for three seasons at Drake before Enright transferred to DePaul and DeVries left for West Virginia.
The 6-foot-2 combo guard averaged 7.5 points, 6.2 assists and 3.3 rebounds for the DePaul Blue Demons, averaging 30.1 minutes per game, in 23 total games. Enright also shot 32.5% from from three. Enright had the 17th-best assist rate in the nation this season according to KenPom.
The Illinois native missed DePaul’s final 10 games with a shoulder injury that required surgery. Conor Enright suffered the injury in January and underwent surgery in February.
According to Sam Keyser of 247 High School Hoops, Enright has also drawn interest from Notre Dame, Colorado, Iowa State and Texas Tech.
So far early in the process Indiana has had five players – Myles Rice, Gabe Cupps, Malik Reneau, Mackenzie Mgbako and Jakai Newton – have entered the transfer portal.
