{"id":214836,"date":"2026-04-01T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214836\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:14:09","slug":"miami-basketball-brant-byers-plans-to-enter-portal-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214836\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami basketball: Brant Byers plans to enter portal | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Brant Byers\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69ccfee76158e.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Miami&#8217;s Brant Byers scores against Ohio on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, at Millett Hall in Oxford. David Jablonski\/Staff<\/p>\n<p>                                    David Jablonski<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Brant Byers\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69ccfee76158e.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Miami&#8217;s Brant Byers scores against Ohio on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, at Millett Hall in Oxford. David Jablonski\/Staff<\/p>\n<p>                                    David Jablonski<\/p>\n<p>Miami RedHawks forward Brant Byers will enter the transfer portal, according to multiple reports Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Byers, a 6-foot-9 redshirt sophomore forward, ranked second on the team with 14.2 points in the 2025-26 season. He was named the Mid-American Conference Freshman of the Year in 2025 after averaging 8.5 points and made the All-MAC second team in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The transfer portal officially opens April 7, though athletes can declare their intention to enter before then.<\/p>\n<p>Byers helped lead the RedHawks to an undefeated regular season, a school-record 32 victories and their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-news.com\/sports\/the-support-this-year-was-special-miamis-historic-season-ends-with-first-round-loss-to-tennessee\/xb7iadudcjfflhnrfrj5xlhb7a\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first NCAA tournament berth since 2007<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Byers is the first Miami player to enter the portal this spring. Miami lost three players to the portal in 2025, including second-leading scorer Kam Craft, who transferred to Georgia Tech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami&#8217;s Brant Byers scores against Ohio on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, at Millett Hall in Oxford. David Jablonski\/Staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,97986],"class_list":["post-214836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-verticals-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}