The Duke basketball team lost seven players to the transfer portal this offseason, but they welcomed four more as head coach Jon Scheyer rebuilt the program around [autotag]Cooper Flagg[/autotag] and the 2024 recruiting class. Popular basketball analytics site EvanMiya thinks Scheyer did a good job.
The site, founded by Evan Miyakawa, considered Duke’s four incoming transfers as the 12th-best class in the country with three of the four new Blue Devils given five-star grades.
Mason Gillis, who won Big Ten Sixth Man of the Year last season with Purdue, and Syracuse’s Maliq Brown ranked as the 24th and 25th overall players in the portal on EvanMiya’s big board, respectively. Sion James of Tulane came in 54th.
The Blue Devils have the second-best transfer portal class in the ACC, according to EvanMiya’s site rankings. The Louisville Cardinals, in the first season of a rebuild with new coach Pat Kelsey, sit in second.
Here's the current transfer class rankings at https://t.co/cegyfz96ax: pic.twitter.com/VnfeTCJe3S
— Evan Miyakawa (@EvanMiya) June 3, 2024
Scheyer’s been efficient with his time, too. The Blue Devils are the only team within the top 24 of EvanMiya’s class rankings to sit below the top 300 in transfer portal activity.