Freshman Sean Stewart on Friday turned the seventh Duke Blue Devils basketball participant from final season’s crew to enter the switch portal.
“I’m grateful to have fulfilled a dream to play for the Blue Devils!” the 6-foot-9 ahead posted on Instagram.
Stewart, who averaged 2.6 factors final season, joins former Duke teammates TJ Energy, Jaylen Blakes, Jeremy Roach, Mark Mitchell, Christian Reeves and Jaden Schutt within the switch portal.
With seven gamers in search of new properties — and stars Jared McCain and Kyle Filipowski having declared for the NBA Draft — head coach Jon Scheyer’s crew will look vastly completely different subsequent season.
Duke can be shedding 84.6% of its minutes and 86.8% of its scoring from final season’s crew that completed 27-9 and misplaced to North Carolina State in an Elite Eight of the NCAA Event. The one two notable returning members of the crew can be guards Caleb Foster and Tyrese Proctor.
On the 2024-25 Duke crew, Foster and Proctor can be joined by 247Sports’ prime total recruit Cooper Flagg and third total recruit Khaman Maluach. The depth items can be top-20 recruits Isaiah Harris, Kon Knueppel and Patrick Ngongba II.
Of the transfers, Roach, Mitchell, Energy and Stewart might have began at Duke subsequent season.
Their choices are indicative of a pattern in school sports activities. At the moment’s gamers can receives a commission by way of NIL and go to a middling energy convention crew and instantly be a star.
Previously, gifted gamers would select to be a rotational piece at Duke — a standard nationwide energy — and have a shot at competing for a nationwide championship.
On this new period, the concept of being a star at a lower-level crew is interesting, particularly if the participant can receives a commission by way of NIL.
On Friday, Mitchell introduced on X, previously Twitter, his dedication to Missouri, the place he can be one of many Tigers’ prime gamers.
