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Noah Shelby

Kansas guard Noah Shelby has entered the transfer portal on Monday after one season with the program, a KU Athletics spokesperson confirmed to the Journal-World.

Shelby, listed as an invited walk-on on KU’s roster, is a former high-level recruit — the No. 14 point guard on Rivals and No. 17 at the position on 247Sports in the class of 2022 — who played one season each at Vanderbilt and Rice before joining the Jayhawks in May 2024. He redshirted during the 2024-25 season.

Shelby’s entry into the portal with two years of eligibility left to play is apparently a result of the brand-new transfer window for Designated Student Athletes (DSAs), a new class of player introduced after the House v. NCAA settlement. The settlement recently went into effect on July 1, and DSAs are those athletes who would have lost their roster spots due to new limits imposed by House, but are instead exempt from the limits for the remainder of their careers at any school they attend.

The deadline for schools to submit their list of DSAs was Sunday, and the NCAA announced last Wednesday that it would create a blanket waiver for DSAs to transfer starting Monday that lasts until Aug. 5.

That waiver applies across all sports, and Shelby is the first known Jayhawk to take advantage. His most recent on-court action was in the 2023-24 season at Rice, when he averaged 3.9 points per game in an average of 11.5 minutes.

The KU basketball roster currently includes 12 scholarship players in returnees Flory Bidunga, Elmarko Jackson and Jamari McDowell; transfer newcomers Melvin Council Jr., Jayden Dawson and Tre White; and freshmen Corbin Allen, Samis Calderon, Paul Mbiya, Darryn Peterson, Kohl Rosario (newly arrived on campus) and Bryson Tiller (technically an early enrollee and now a redshirt freshman). KU therefore has two roster spots left, as it must remain one player under the new 15-man limit due to its final remaining penalty for the Independent Accountability Resolution Process.

The remaining walk-ons, who are presumably DSAs as well, are Justin Cross, Wilder Evers and Will Thengvall. KU could theoretically decided to add DSA transfers from other schools if it wants to replace Shelby.