This transfer portal forward is in a very strange situation, but Duke basketball might be involved.
Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer likes to revolve the majority of his production around elite freshmen, a similar makeup to Mike Krzyzewski. With this new era of college basketball where the transfer portal has run rampant, however, Scheyer has found some gems, specifically in the 2024 cycle when he landed Sion James from Tulane, Mason Gillis from Purdue, and Maliq Brown from Syracuse. Each of these three played crucial veteran roles in the Blue Devils' run to the 2025 Final Four.