(Caption for Photo: Pitt’s Brandin Cummings plays against Hofstra on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Andrew Leon | Pitt Athletics)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to Joe Tipton of On3 Sports, sophomore guard and former Lincoln Park boys high school basketball standout Brandin Cummings plans to enter the college basketball transfer portal after two seasons at Pitt. Cummings averaged 12.5 points per game this season in nineteen games. He started in nine of those games. The Midland native suffered a season-ending ankle injury halfway through this season. Cummings was one of the top-ranked recruits in Pennsylvania in high school and he was ranked among the state’s top-five players. Brandin also joined his brother, Nelly Cummings as a 2,000 point scorer during his career at Lincoln Park. Nelly Cummings also played college basketball for Pitt.