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A women’s basketball player who graduated in 2016 just entered the transfer portal
Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images Janae Jackson graduated from Youngstown State in 2016. Last week, she entered women’s basketball’s transfer portal. With the House settlement looming, players hope eligibility rules change. Janae Jackson was a solid player over the three seasons she competed in Division I women’s basketball for Northern Illinois and Youngstown State. A 5-foot-9 guard hailing from Detroit, Michigan, she started in 26 of the 29 games she played in as a senior for the Youngstown State Penguins, averaging 9.3 points, 6.2 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.1 steals per game while shooting 43.3 percent from the floor. She even ranked 11th amongst all Horizon League players in PER as a senior. Jackson, multiple sources told SB Nation, entered the transfer portal last week. She is one of more than 1,550 players to do so in women’s college basketball this season. Here’s what’s strange about Jackson entering the portal: She graduated from Youngstown State in 2016. Yes, really: Jackson, who has not played college basketball in nine years, just entered the transfer portal. Even the compliance staffer at Youngstown State who filed her request to enter the portal had to acknowledge the weirdness of her situation in a note attached to her entry that, according to a source with direct access to the portal, reads: “Institution is aware student is (sic) clearly exhausted eligibility. However, student has requested to be entered and general counsel has guided the best course of action is to enter the student.” Jackson’s portal entry also confirms her graduation date: May 7, 2016. The numbers of players who enter the transfer portal for men’s and women’s basketball and football have reached into the thousands in each of the past few years. But this season has brought a flood of players without any eligibility remaining into the portal. In men’s basketball, more than 150 players with no eligibility left have entered. What these players are hoping for is that the looming House vs. NCAA antitrust settlement decision forces the NCAA to change its framework around eligibility. Many players — or at least the people advising them — believe it’s possible that the NCAA alters those rules in the wake of the House settlement, or due to the multiple ongoing lawsuits challenging NCAA eligibility standards. Clemson men’s basketball player Ian Schieffelin summed up his thinking in a post on X earlier this month: “While I am (pursuing) my options on the professional level I have been advised, due to pending NCAA cases, to enter the portal on the very outside chance more eligibility is allowed.” For many players, with the advent of NIL and direct revenue sharing potentially on the horizon, money is the reason for seeking one more year of playing college sports. Another year of eligibility could be another payday. It’s unclear what Jackson’s exact motivations for entering the transfer portal are. She did not immediately respond to SB Nation’s request for comment. According to LinkedIn, she graduated from Youngstown State with a B.A. in sociology and has since worked at Enterprise, FedEx, and a company called Inviolable Innovations, where she is the Creative Director. But it might be possible that the NCAA reviews her case and determines that she does have at least a year of eligibility left. Its longstanding guidelines for eligibility was that players had five years to play four seasons of college sports. Jackson, however, only played three seasons in five years. The seasons she played were 2010-11, 2014-15, and 2015-16. After spending her freshman season at Northern Illinois, she transferred to Youngstown State and had to sit out the year under what were then the rules for college transfers. These days, players can transfer one time and play right away. If they transfer a second time as a graduate, they can play immediately for their new school too. Jackson didn’t play the following year either, as an injury kept her sidelined for what would have been her redshirt sophomore season. Again, these days, the NCAA often grants eligibility waivers with little pushback for players who suffer season-ending injuries. Sedona Prince is one recent example who took full advantage of the always-shifting eligibility guardrails. She began her college basketball career at Texas in 2018, had a multi-year stop in Oregon, and just finished up her playing days at TCU this past season. Prince played four seasons in seven years. While Jackson might be the only one north of 30 years of age in the portal, she isn’t the lone women’s basketball player to enter it this season with seemingly no eligibility left. Syracuse senior Georgia Woolley, who has played in 121 games over four seasons, also entered the portal last week. Grace Cave, who averaged 16.5 points per game this past season, is another notable player to enter the portal after playing four full seasons for Omaha. Another player with no eligibility but is in the portal anyways
Janae Jackson graduated from Youngstown State in 2016. Last week, she entered women’s basketball’s transfer portal. With the House settlement looming, players hope eligibility rules change.
Janae Jackson was a solid player over the three seasons she competed in Division I women’s basketball for Northern Illinois and Youngstown State.
A 5-foot-9 guard hailing from Detroit, Michigan, she started in 26 of the 29 games she played in as a senior for the Youngstown State Penguins, averaging 9.3 points, 6.2 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.1 steals per game while shooting 43.3 percent from the floor. She even ranked 11th amongst all Horizon League players in PER as a senior.
Jackson, multiple sources told SB Nation, entered the transfer portal last week. She is one of more than 1,550 players to do so in women’s college basketball this season.
Here’s what’s strange about Jackson entering the portal: She graduated from Youngstown State in 2016.
Yes, really: Jackson, who has not played college basketball in nine years, just entered the transfer portal.
Even the compliance staffer at Youngstown State who filed her request to enter the portal had to acknowledge the weirdness of her situation in a note attached to her entry that, according to a source with direct access to the portal, reads: “Institution is aware student is (sic) clearly exhausted eligibility. However, student has requested to be entered and general counsel has guided the best course of action is to enter the student.”
Jackson’s portal entry also confirms her graduation date: May 7, 2016.
The numbers of players who enter the transfer portal for men’s and women’s basketball and football have reached into the thousands in each of the past few years. But this season has brought a flood of players without any eligibility remaining into the portal. In men’s basketball, more than 150 players with no eligibility left have entered.
What these players are hoping for is that the looming House vs. NCAA antitrust settlement decision forces the NCAA to change its framework around eligibility. Many players — or at least the people advising them — believe it’s possible that the NCAA alters those rules in the wake of the House settlement, or due to the multiple ongoing lawsuits challenging NCAA eligibility standards.
Clemson men’s basketball player Ian Schieffelin summed up his thinking in a post on X earlier this month: “While I am (pursuing) my options on the professional level I have been advised, due to pending NCAA cases, to enter the portal on the very outside chance more eligibility is allowed.”
For many players, with the advent of NIL and direct revenue sharing potentially on the horizon, money is the reason for seeking one more year of playing college sports. Another year of eligibility could be another payday.
It’s unclear what Jackson’s exact motivations for entering the transfer portal are. She did not immediately respond to SB Nation’s request for comment. According to LinkedIn, she graduated from Youngstown State with a B.A. in sociology and has since worked at Enterprise, FedEx, and a company called Inviolable Innovations, where she is the Creative Director.
But it might be possible that the NCAA reviews her case and determines that she does have at least a year of eligibility left. Its longstanding guidelines for eligibility was that players had five years to play four seasons of college sports. Jackson, however, only played three seasons in five years. The seasons she played were 2010-11, 2014-15, and 2015-16.
After spending her freshman season at Northern Illinois, she transferred to Youngstown State and had to sit out the year under what were then the rules for college transfers. These days, players can transfer one time and play right away. If they transfer a second time as a graduate, they can play immediately for their new school too.
Jackson didn’t play the following year either, as an injury kept her sidelined for what would have been her redshirt sophomore season. Again, these days, the NCAA often grants eligibility waivers with little pushback for players who suffer season-ending injuries. Sedona Prince is one recent example who took full advantage of the always-shifting eligibility guardrails. She began her college basketball career at Texas in 2018, had a multi-year stop in Oregon, and just finished up her playing days at TCU this past season. Prince played four seasons in seven years.
While Jackson might be the only one north of 30 years of age in the portal, she isn’t the lone women’s basketball player to enter it this season with seemingly no eligibility left. Syracuse senior Georgia Woolley, who has played in 121 games over four seasons, also entered the portal last week. Grace Cave, who averaged 16.5 points per game this past season, is another notable player to enter the portal after playing four full seasons for Omaha. Another player with no eligibility but is in the portal anyways is Nyah Wilson, who has played in 103 games with three schools over four seasons.
According to multiple sources, there are about 20 women’s basketball players in the transfer portal who seemingly have no eligibility remaining.
