A proposal now on the table could allow all student-athletes to transfer without having to sit out a season (a privilege that collegians outside the basketball, football, baseball, and men's ice hockey variety already possess). And such change would almost certainly work to the advantage of the Duke basketball program more than any other.
First, the Division I Council might approve the new rule, which would give each individual one such penalty-free transfer option, in time for the 2020-21 academic year, per the NCAA's Michelle Brutlag Hosick (her article does not specify exactly when the moves could begin taking place nor whether players could transfer between an academic year's two semesters and still immediately become eligible).