Kansas forward Zach Clemence has entered the transfer portal, a KU Athletics spokesperson confirmed on Friday morning.
This is Clemence’s second time in the portal after he previously left KU and committed to UC Santa Barbara following the 2022-23 season, only to reverse course and return to Lawrence over the summer.
He then took an unusual mid-career redshirt and returned to action last fall, averaging 1.4 points and 1.4 rebounds in eight appearances before suffering a groin injury that kept him out of action for the remainder of the season.
Because of that injury, Clemence, though listed as a redshirt junior this year, may still have two seasons of eligibility left to play.
Clemence, a 6-foot-10 San Antonio native who attended Sunrise Christian Academy in Wichita, never occupied more than a peripheral role for the Jayhawks after arriving as a freshman prior to the 2021-22 national championship campaign. He scored in double figures twice: with 11 points against Stony Brook as a freshman and with 10 against Oklahoma as a sophomore. In all, he played in 52 career games across four seasons, one of which was his redshirt year.
With his departure from the roster, KU no longer retains any players from the title-winning team as it heads into the 2025-26 campaign. Clemence is also the first Jayhawk on scholarship to enter the portal in nearly two years, since KU did not have any such departures following the 2023-24 season.
In the short term, the Jayhawks will look for frontcourt depth behind Flory Bidunga, who just completed his freshman season, to go along with early-enrolling freshman Bryson Tiller, who is still in the process of recovering from a long-term ankle injury.
