{"id":229189,"date":"2026-04-13T01:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229189\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T01:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:59:08","slug":"georgia-transfer-somto-cyril-commits-to-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229189\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia transfer Somto Cyril commits to Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JAMES MADDEN<\/p>\n<p>Miami has landed its first commit in the transfer portal from Georgia commit Somto Cyril, he announced on social media on Sunday. A 6-foot-11 center originally from Nigeria, Cyril averaged 9.3 points and 5.4 rebounds per game in his second season at Georgia. <\/p>\n<p>Cyril was originally committed to Kentucky in high school, but following John Calipari\u2019s departure, he de-committed from the Wildcats and committed to Georgia. <\/p>\n<p>A tenacious defender and rim protector, Cyril was one of the top centers available in the portal and ranked inside the top-20 in 247Sports\u2019 transfer portal rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a 26-9 record in his first season as a head coach, Miami head coach Jai Lucas is reloading a front court and roster that will lose Malik Reneau and Ernest Udeh Jr. to graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas, however, may have found his starting center for the next two years in Cyril, one of the most highly-coveted centers in the transfer portal. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jmadden1632\" rel=\"nofollow\">Follow James Madden on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamZagoria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Adam Zagoria on Twitte<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">r<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow ZAGSBLOGHoops on<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZagsBlog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZagsBlog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like ZAGS on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By JAMES MADDEN Miami has landed its first commit in the transfer portal from Georgia commit Somto Cyril,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-229189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229189","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=229189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}