One More: Sean Stewart Portals Away
This one is a surprise.
After not having any transfers after last season, the floodgates have opened this year for Duke.
Christian Reeves, Mark Mitchell, Jaylen Blakes, TJ Power and Jeremy Roach had all announced their intentions to leave (Mark Mitchell has committed to Missouri, incidentally).
The general feeling was that either Power or Sean Stewart would leave but now it’s both as Stewart announced his decision on Instagram just one day after Power did.
This of course leaves a lot of minutes for the freshman class, but it also opens up more space for portal transfers in.
As of now, Duke will return Caleb Foster and Tyrese Proctor and that’s it. Kyle Filipowski and Jared McCain are off to the NBA as well.
Freshmen Cooper Flagg, Khaman Maluach, Darren Harris, Patrick Ngongba, Kon Knueppel and Isaiah Evans will all compete for time. That puts Duke up to eight players next year so portal acquisitions are suddenly much more important. Stay tuned.