Kentucky lands Dayton sharpshooting transfer Koby Brea

Dayton sharpshooter Koby Brea will transfer to Kentucky.

Mark Pope has landed one of the best shooters in the transfer portal.

This afternoon, Dayton transfer Koby Brea has committed to the Kentucky Wildcats.

A 6-foot-6, 205-pound swingman out of Washington Heights (N.Y.) Brea earned Atlantic 10 Sixth Man of the Year honors after averaging 11.1 points and 3.8 rebounds this past season on 49.8 percent shooting from long range.

He chose the Wildcats after strongly considering Connecticut, Duke, Kansas, and North Carolina as options.

With his transfer commitment, Brea joins Travis Perry, Collin Chandler, Otega Oweh, Andrew Carr, Brandon Garrison, and Amari Williams as members of Pope’s reconstructed Wildcats roster for the 2024-25 season.

Ranked as a four-star transfer in the 247Sports college basketball transfer portal rankings, Brea has a year of eligibility remaining..

The transfer portal opened on March 18th and will close at the end of today Wednesday, May 1st.

Anytime during that window, a player can submit paperwork to their current school to request a transfer and within 48-hours of receiving the paperwork, a player must be submitted into the NCAA Portal database.

Before the window opens on March 18th and after the window closes on May 1st, players who have earned enough credits to graduate are able to enter the transfer portal at any time, listed as a “Grad Transfer”.

Simultaneously, with any coaching movement – whether a head coach is fired or gets another job – players of that team are also given a 30-day window in which they can enter the portal which is not bound to the March 18th-May 1st window.

When a player has officially entered the transfer portal, other schools are permitted to contact the player and begin the recruiting process.

There is also a new rule this off-season that will have major ramifications on the transfer market.

In recent years, players were given a one-time transfer waiver and if transferring for a second time, a waiver had to be granted to be immediately eligible by the NCAA.