By ADAM ZAGORIA
Alabama and Oregon State are among the early schools to reach out on Purdue transfer Nojel Eastern after the Michigan move didn’t work out.
“I’m not really leaning towards any schools right now,” he said Thursday by phone. “I’m still waiting on what people say and who’s calling and stuff like that.”
Wherever he lands, Eastern will have to sit out the 2020-21 season unless he receives a waiver for immediate eligibility.
As far as the Michigan situation, he said he didn’t have enough credits in his major — selling and sales management — to transfer over to Michigan.
“What happened with Michigan is my major, I had about 90-something credits,” he said. “When I transferred they only accepted 48 of those credits and for me to get into Michigan I needed 60 credits. So we were trying to do summer classes to try to get in.
“Coach [Juwan] Howard ended up talking to the administration and he said that even if I did take those summer classes, they wouldn’t be able to accept those credits.
“It was for that reason alone.”
Eastern appeared in all 31 games with 27 starts at Purdue, averaging 4.9 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game, earning a spot on the Big Ten’s All-Defensive Team for the second straight year.
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