The dust has finally settled. We know who’s staying in the draft and who isn’t. Mike Krzyzewski says that Duke is not recruiting anyone else from the class of 2019, not even a traditional transfer, the kind who would have to sit out a season.
Now that dust-settled roster includes neither Marques Bolden nor Boogie Ellis. It’s easy to play the addition-by-subtraction card and it would have been difficult to allocate 200 player-minutes with a roster that included Bolden and Ellis without keeping some talent on the bench.
But Bolden would have given Duke another senior on a roster that again projects to run on the young side.