The college basketball world has yet another addition to the transfer portal. Florida State Seminoles shooting guard Matthew Cleveland entered the portal late on Tuesday night.
He hasn’t been rated just yet but one should expect that he will be high on the list.
“It’s a bombshell”, Issac Trotter of 247Sports wrote. “Suitors will be lining up for a big-time transfer like Matthew Cleveland.”
This is becoming more and more common with top players opting to enter the transfer portal to chase other opportunities. Simply put, this has become the new norm for us.
Cleveland signed with the Florida State Seminoles in the class of 2021 as a five-star shooting guard out of Georgia. He was the No. 3 player in the state and No. 7 at his position.
The 6-foot-6-inch shooting guard has averaged 12.7 points and 6.0 rebounds over the last two seasons. This past season Cleveland averaged 13.8 points and 7.4 rebounds while shooting 44.5% from the field and 35% from beyond the arc. He had a career high 1.8 assists per game as well.
Coming out of high school, Cleveland had an impressive offer list that included Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Clemson, Florida, Kansas, and Purdue among others. In all, he had a reported 29 scholarship offers.
He should be highly coveted by plenty of programs looking to re-tool their rosters for the next basketball season.
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