The NCAA requires schools to adhere to a player’s transfer request, but Lucas' name never appeared in the portal.

Former Wisconsin cornerback Xavier Lucas shared a first look at him in a Miami Hurricanes uniform on Tuesday night. “Feels good to be home,” Lucas wrote on X. It is his first public comment since reportedly bypassing the transfer portal to leave Wisconsin for Miami earlier this month.

Wisconsin has claimed that Miami tampered with defensive back Xavier Lucas, who elected to withdraw from the school and enroll at UM with an intention to play football for the Hurricanes in 2025. Wisconsin says it has “credible information indicating” that Miami engaged in impermissible contact with the player before he decided to move to that school.

The Big Ten, NCAA and Wisconsin have all weighed in the DB's transfer in a battle that could set a precedent for future transfers and revenue-sharing contracts

As transfer-portal season fires into gear, keep track of players leaving and arriving into the Wisconsin football program.

Wisconsin football is attempting to prevent Xavier Lucas from landing at Miami. Details emerge on a tampering accusation.

News of his move came on Friday. Yahoo’s Ross Dellenger was the first to report that Lucas was leaving for Miami without officially entering the transfer portal. Wisconsin had held the standout freshman cornerback out of the portal after he “signed a two-year revenue-share agreement” in early December, per Dellenger.

The Badgers say cornerback Xavier Lucas had entered into a two-year binding name, image and likeness agreement with Wisconsin.

The University of Wisconsin has taken legal action against defensive back Xavier Lucas after he withdrew from school to transfer to Miami.  Lucas, the school cl

In a potentially precedent-setting confrontation, a college football player is transferring even though his former school declined to enter his name into the portal.

Mark Hoffman Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK The University of Wisconsin on Saturday night released a lengthy statement regarding cornerback Xavier Lucas’ transfer to the University of Miami, saying a “binding two-year NIL agreement ...

Wisconsin said it has "credible information" that Miami and Xavier Lucas made impermissible contact with each other in violation of NCAA rules.