Will Wade and LSU have landed former UCLA guard Skyy Clark, giving the Tigers an experienced transfer portal addition for the 2026-27 season. According to multiple reports, Clark will join LSU after two seasons at UCLA and stops at Illinois and Louisville, making him a veteran backcourt option with more than 100 career games.
He averaged career highs of 13.2 points and 3.0 assists per game at Louisville in 2023-24 and has shot 39.7% and 42.7% from three over the last two seasons at UCLA.
Sources: UCLA transfer Skyy Clark has committed to LSU.
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Averaged 11.5 PPG last season and entered the Transfer Portal in April.
Clark is seeking a fifth year of eligibility during the 2026-27 season.
Clark averaged 11.5 points, 2.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.2 steals per game in 28.5 minutes per game last season. He also shot nearly 47% from the field and 42.7% from three-point range. Clark also brings defensive versatility and NCAA Tournament experience. He was a starter for both of UCLA’s teams the last two seasons, and both went to the NCAA Tournament.
Skyy Clark is the latest player to benefit from the new “5-for-5” ruling
Clark is another player who benefits from the new “5-in-5” rule that has taken the college sports world by storm. With Judge Charlotte Sweeney opening this door in court, it has allowed for Clark and others to suit up next season, though the NCAA is still working to get things overturned.
The “5-in-5” rule is not supposed to take effect until the start of the new calendar year. Despite this, that has not stopped dozens of players that will fight the NCAA to get eligible for a fifth season of play and an injunction was granted by a state court judge in Ohio on July 9, which opens the door for players to become eligible for a fifth year.
In this issue, I do not blame the players one bit. It doesn’t make sense why every student athlete moving forward gets five years to play five seasons of college athletics and the players who just finished their fourth year should not be able to get their fifth. The NCAA will still appeal these decisions, but it has definitely saved LSU, which was stringing by the shoes wondering if some of the players they landed overseas would become eligible.
The NCAA may not be the only entity objecting to these injunction rulings. In a joint statement, the country’s leading conferences also supported the NCAA’s stance against permitting seniors who have already completed their expected four years of eligibility to obtain a fifth year.
“Engaging in such retroactive applicability would have detrimental consequences for member institutions in our conferences, for student-athletes, and for college sports in general. Allowing these student-athletes to stay and compete for an additional fifth year that their schools’ athletic departments did not previously plan for would create significant roster instability. These student-athletes would potentially take roster spots from individuals to whom the spots were previously promised. In particular, there would be detrimental consequences for incoming student-athletes,” reads a joint statement from the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC."
This will surely be something to keep a close eye on moving forward, but, for now, LSU has their man.
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