Syracuse, N.Y. — On Tuesday, reports circulated that Chance Westry had found a new college basketball home.
Minutes later, Westry refuted the reports on social media.
Westry, a 6-foot-6 guard, is transferring to the University of Alabama-Birmingham, according to CBS Sports.
An acclaimed high school player, Westry spent one season at Auburn, but knee surgery ended his freshman season there. He elected to transfer to Syracuse, but various injuries and illnesses kept him from ever making an impact.
Westry was one of the more tantalizing prospects in recent years to sign with SU out of the transfer portal, but various factors, some of them never truly explained, derailed his career here.
He played a total of three games and 10 minutes for SU, all of them last December, before deciding to shut down for the rest of the year for undisclosed reasons. He missed all of last season after sustaining a knee injury in the fall of 2023. Westry has had two significant knee injuries in his college years.
He could have as many as three years remaining to play college basketball. He was expected to get that chance at UAB, a team decimated this offseason by players entering the transfer portal.
Nine UAB players entered the portal, headlined by Yaxel Lendenborg, a talented big man who committed to Michigan and is also testing the NBA Draft. Efrem “Butta” Johnson, a guard, committed to Clemson.
Jacob Meyer, a transfer guard from DePaul, committed to UAB from the portal. The program, coached by Andy Kennedy, has also signed three junior college players.
The Blazers finished 24-13 last season and 13-5 in an American Athletic Conference headlined by Memphis.
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