{"id":690330,"date":"2026-03-31T18:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/690330\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:11:21","slug":"syracuse-mens-basketball-aaron-womack-to-enter-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/690330\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse men\u2019s basketball: Aaron Womack to enter transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The first bit of player movement for Syracuse men\u2019s basketball under new head coach Gerry McNamara is here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Freshman wing Aaron Womack plans to enter the transfer portal, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/orangebasketball\/2026\/03\/syracuse-basketball-freshman-elects-to-enter-transfer-portal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syracuse.com<\/a>. Womack, who was an off-the-radar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nunesmagician.com\/2024\/9\/30\/24258586\/syracuse-orange-mens-basketball-class-of-2025-wing-aaron-womack-commits\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signing<\/a> in Syracuse\u2019s 2025 recruiting class, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nunesmagician.com\/syracuse-basketball-mens-orange-autry\/102154\/syracuse-basketball-freshman-aaron-womack-to-redshirt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">redshirted<\/a> this past season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m just a worker,\u201d Womack said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nunesmagician.com\/syracuse-basketball-mens-orange-boeheim\/99358\/freshman-aaron-womack-comes-to-syracuse-basketball-ready-to-work\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October<\/a> at Syracuse media day. \u201cI come in the gym every day and I can shoot. I can defend, do whatever the team needs me to do to win. So whatever coach asks me to do I always do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe\u2019s super talented,\u201d former Syracuse head coach Adrian Autry said of Womack after defeating Drexel in November. \u201cWe just have to figure out what\u2019s the best decision for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It turned out that the decision was to redshirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A Milwaukee native, Womack was brought to Syracuse by Autry and his staff, including general manager Alex Kline and his lead recruiter, Allen Griffin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At 6-foot-6, Womack was a three-star recruit with mid-major offers before Syracuse jumped in. He committed immediately after his visit in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In high school, Womack surpassed former Maryland and Los Angeles Clippers big man Diamond Stone as the all-time leading scorer at Dominican High School, with over 2,200 points. He averaged 28.8 points per game in his senior year of high school. He played for the Wisconsin Playground Club on the Under Armour circuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Syracuse.com reported that Womack met \u201cbriefly\u201d with new head coach Gerry McNamara last week, which \u201csolidified\u201d his plan to transfer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">SU still has eight (nine if you include Calvin Russell, ten if you include Russell and Noah Lobdell) potential returners for next season. Additionally, Nate Kingz might be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nunesmagician.com\/syracuse-basketball-mens-orange-autry\/106259\/syracuse-mens-basketball-nate-kingz-open-to-another-year-with-the-orange\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eligible<\/a> for a Pavia waiver to return as well. It remains to be seen which other Orange players will hit the transfer portal, and who McNamara and his staff want to bring in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ll continue to provide you with the latest offseason updates as we learn them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first bit of player movement for Syracuse men\u2019s basketball under new head coach Gerry McNamara is here.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,41947],"class_list":{"0":"post-690330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-syracuse-mens-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116325140838261576","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}