Chapel Hill
Three more UNC basketball players are entering the transfer portal as of Tuesday morning, per multiple reports.
Kyan Evans, Zayden High and James Brown are the latest UNC players to announce their intent to enter the portal, per On3. There are now seven players who have decided to test the transfer waters, as this trio joins Derek Dixon, Jonathan Powell, Jaydon Young and Isaiah Denis.
This latest update comes a day after news broke Monday that North Carolina is set to hire Michael Malone as its next head coach. Malone will replace Hubert Davis, who was fired days after UNC’s first round NCAA Tournament loss to VCU.
Evans joined North Carolina from Colorado State, where he made waves with a breakout postseason performance that saw him hit a career-best six threes against Memphis. But Evans never quite found his stride in Chapel Hill. He started the first 17 games of the season before Dixon replaced him as UNC’s starting point guard in January.
Evans, a junior guard, finished the season averaging four points, 2.5 assists and 1.2 rebounds per game. After shooting 47.1% from the field and 44.6% from 3-point range as a sophomore at Colorado State, he shot 32.8% from the floor and 30.5% from the perimeter during his one year at North Carolina.
The 6-foot-10 High averaged 3.4 points and 2.8 rebounds last season, although his production picked up significantly as Caleb Wilson’s injury forced High into playing more minutes.
High wrote on social media Tuesday morning he is “looking forward” to continuing his college basketball career, “whether it be here at UNC or elsewhere.”
High returned to the team as a redshirt sophomore for the 2025-26 season after serving a yearlong suspension for sexual misconduct.
Brown, a 6-10, 240-pound forward, played in 27 games over the past two years as a right foot injury limited him to just nine games as a sophomore this season. Having not appeared in a game since December, Brown had surgery on his foot in February.
This story was originally published April 7, 2026 at 11:38 AM.
