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Sources from the University of New Mexico said Donovan Dent will earn $3 million though a name, image and likeness deal by transferring to UCLA. The Lobos’ starting point guard last season and a three-year letterman with New Mexico earned honorable mention All-America honors this season, leading UNM to a Mountain West regular-season championship and the second round of the NCAA Tournament. He averaged more than 20 points and 6 assists a game, making him one of the most sought after players in the country when he entered the transfer portal two days after the Lobos’ season ended with a loss to Michigan State on March 23.
Multiple sources said Dent agreed to a $2 million payment up front and an additional $1 million to be paid during the 2025-26 season. A native of Riverside, Calif., Dent is essentially returning home to play for a blue-blood Big Ten program that never offered him a scholarship coming out of high school.
He is one of nine Lobos to enter the transfer portal since the season ended. The latest came Tuesday afternoon when guard Kayde Dotson, Dent’s seldom-used backup as a true freshman, put his name in the transfer wire. The only remaining players from this season’s team are forward Ibrahima Sacko, a junior, and Daniel Thomas, a freshman forward who took a redshirt year.
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