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Report: Oklahoma Loses Second Player Today to Transfer Portal

After a report earlier Monday that Elijah Harkless has entered the transfer portal, center Rick Issanza has reportedly done the same.
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Report: Oklahoma Loses Second Player Today to Transfer Portal
Report: Oklahoma Loses Second Player Today to Transfer Portal

Apparently, the NCAA Transfer Portal is suddenly filling up with Sooners.

OU reportedly lost its second player of the day on Monday afternoon when center Rick Issanza entered the transfer portal, according to VerbalCommits.com.

Monday morning, the same website reported that senior guard Elijah Harkless had entered the portal.

Entering the portal does not necessarily mean a player is leaving. It only means he’s being allowed, by NCAA rule, to explore the option of transferring and can entertain offers from other programs.

Issanza, a 7-foot-1, 230-pound redshirt sophomore from Kinshasa, Congo, played in 12 games last season with one start. He averaged 4.1 minutes per game, and averaged 0.7 points and 0.8 rebounds.

As a freshman in 2020-21, Issanza played in five games and averaged 0.8 points and 1.8 rebounds.

Issanza would be the fourth scholarship player to leave the Sooners roster already this offseason. Freshman Alston Mason and sophomore Akol Mawein also decided to explore the transfer portal last week OU is also coping with the graduation of super seniors Ethan Chargois, Marvin Johnson and Jordan Goldwire all graduated after transferring in before last season.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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