Other than Mike Chappelle, who left Duke for Michigan State, we can’t recall Duke playing a guy who transferred out - wait, wait, check that. Michael Gbinije left for Syracuse.
Well there goes our setup where we were going to say that Duke hasn’t played a former Blue Devil in ACC competition. Even so, it’s a bit different with Boston College’s Derryck Thornton.
Thornton left with his family grumbling that he had been misled and one relative saying he was a scoring point guard and not a pass-first guard as the Blue Devil staff wanted him to be.