{"id":221684,"date":"2026-04-07T07:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221684\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:59:26","slug":"third-miami-player-announces-plan-to-enter-transfer-portal-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/221684\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Miami player announces plan to enter transfer portal | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Miami (Ohio) guard Eian Elmer (0) dunks during the second half of a First Four college basketball game against SMU in the NCAA Tournament in Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (AP Photo\/Jeff Dean)<\/p>\n

Jeff Dean<\/p>\n

Miami RedHawks forward Eian Elmer announced Monday, April 6, he plans to enter the transfer portal.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Givony, of Draft Express, announced the news.<\/p>\n

A junior from Taft High School in Cincinnati, Elmer ranked fourth on the team with 12.7 points per game. He led Miami with 5.9 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

Elmer led Miami with 23 points in a 89-79 victory against Tennessee<\/a> in the first round of the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n

Elmer scored 1,037 points in three seasons with Miami, averaging 10.3 points in 99 games. He has one season of eligibility remaining.<\/p>\n

Elmer is the third Miami player to announce his plans, following Brant Byers<\/a> and Trey Perry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The portal officially opens at midnight Tuesday, April 7. VerbalCommits.com<\/a> lists more than 1,000 players who are in the portal or plan to enter the portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami (Ohio) guard Eian Elmer (0) dunks during the second half of a First Four college basketball game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3108,4403,8294,111,18924,123,125,124,110],"class_list":["post-221684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-basketball","tag-college","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221684","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=221684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}