Report: Georgia men's basketball loses sophomore forward to NCAA transfer portal
The Georgia Bulldogs are losing potential No. 1 overall pick Anthony Edwards and talented F Rayshaun Hammonds to the 2020 NBA Draft.
Now, another player is potentially on his way out of Athens, too, via the NCAA transfer portal.
Per AL.com’s Matt Zenitz, rising sophomore F Mike Peake is exploring his transfer options ahead of the 2020-21 season:
Have learned that Georgia basketball forward Mike Peake has entered the transfer portal.
Played in 24 games as a freshman last season.
— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) June 3, 2020
Peake appeared in 24 games for the Bulldogs in 2019-20, averaging 2.3 points and 2.0 rebounds per contest.
Peake was a 3-star forward coming out of high school in Kansas City. He was the No. 82 power forward in the 2019 class and the No. 7 overall recruit from the state of Missouri, per the 247Sports composite rankings.
Had a potential bright future at Georgia. But he wasn’t doing much to help his team per his stats.
I thought he was definitely in line to start this season. He was able to do a little bit of spot contribution but he did a lot of good work in the few minutes he played. I thought with an offseason in the program and with Hammonds leaving he was really going to step in and show his abilities.
Was probably something behind the scenes. Don’t see why he’d leave a school that he’d likely start for. Maybe relationships with staff were not going well.
They brought in some transfers to compete with him but I think having more time in the system he could have been first on line still.
Dang.. We were already a small team and with Hammonds and now Peake, we’re getting smaller…