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Syracuse transfer Maliq Brown officially signs with the Blue Devils

Maliq Brown, the Syracuse transfer who committed to Duke on Monday, officially joined the program on Thursday morning.

Syracuse transfer Maliq Brown officially signed with the Blue Devils on Thursday morning, the team announced.

The move makes his commitment from Monday official.

“Maliq is a skilled, tough, and versatile forward who brings a competitive mentality to every game and practice,” Duke head coach Jon Scheyer said in a statement shared by the team. “Maliq takes pride in doing all the little things that impact winning.”

Brown averaged 9.5 points and 7.2 rebounds per game with the Orange last season, and he finished with a field-goal percentage of 69.8% in both of his two Syracuse seasons. He also swiped 2.2 steals and added 0.9 blocks on the defensive end.

His efficiency gets even better with advanced metrics. Brown finished with an effective field-goal percentage of 71.3% last season, according to KenPom. No one else in the ACC finished above 61.8%. His 4.12% steal rate also led the conference.

Brown and former Purdue guard Mason Gillis are the only two transfers who have currently committed to Scheyer and the Blue Devils.

Georgia transfer WR shines in Syracuse spring game

UGA football transfer has long touchdown, standout performance in Syracuse’s spring game

Syracuse Orange wide receiver Yazeed Haynes, a Georgia transfer, stood out in Syracuseโ€™s spring game. Haynes received a team-high 10 targets and hauled in six receptions for 74 yards and a touchdown. Haynes caught a 38-yard touchdown that was one of the Orangeโ€™s top plays in their spring game.

Haynes, a former four-star recruit, followed first-year Syracuse head coach Fran Brown from Georgia to Syracuse. Haynesโ€™ explosiveness and route running ability was on full display for the white team.

The redshirt freshman pass catcher elected to transfer to Syracuse during the December window along with several of his Georgia teammates. Haynes is expected to be one of Syracuseโ€™s top receivers this fall.

Hereโ€™s a look at his 38-yard touchdown reception:

Former Georgia wide receiver Jackson Meeks also transferred to Syracuse along with offensive tackle Joshua Miller. Fran Brown and Syracuse will have little bit of Dawg in this fall.

BREAKING: Duke lands commitment from Syracuse transfer Maliq Brown

Duke lands it first transfer of the offseason as former Syracuse forward Maliq Brown commits.

After a week of nothing but departures from its program, Jon Scheyer and the Duke Blue Devils are finally playing offense in the NCAA transfer portal.

Former Syracuse forward Maliq Brown committed to Duke on Saturday afternoon, per On3 Sports’ Joe Tipton.

Brown, a four-star recruit, spent his first two collegiate seasons in Syracuse, where he played sparingly as a freshman. This past season, as a sophomore, the 6-foot-8 forward started 16 games for the Orange and was their de facto center after an Achilles injury sidelined starter Naheem McLeod for the season. Brown posted 9.5 points and grabbed 7.2 boards per game.

Brown’s game is defense, hustle, and finishing at a high rate around the rim. He shot nearly 70% from the field in both his freshman and sophomore years, and his 71.3% effective field-goal percentage was the highest in the ACC, according to KenPom.

He was an ACC All-Defensive Team nominee this season and led the conference with 2.2 steals per game last year. He’s a high-level athlete who will give Duke versatility as a small-ball five or by playing his natural spot at power forward.

Brown has already shown the Duke staff what he can do, scoring 28 points against Duke in Cameron this past season. Brown started his visit to Duke earlier in the week, and the rest was history. He didn’t visit anywhere else before ultimately committing on Saturday afternoon.

Brown will fill the void left by Mark Mitchell and Sean Stewart’s departures. He also brings another veteran presence and voice to a team that will add six freshmen in the summer and will need a lot of leadership as they attempt to gel.

Duke gets three Crystal Ball predictions for Syracuse transfer Maliq Brown

Three different 247Sports experts shared Crystal Ball predictions for Syracuse transfer Maliq Brown on Friday, and they all picked Duke.

The Blue Devils lost a lot of names to the transfer portal this offseason, but head coach Jon Scheyer might replace them sooner rather than later.

Former Syracuse forward Maliq Brown got three Crystal Ball predictions for the Blue Devils from three different 247Sports analysts, including one from national analyst Travis Branham.

All three Crystal Ball predictions came between 3:53 p.m. and 4:31 p.m. on Friday afternoon.

Brown, who stands 6-foot-8, averaged 9.5 points and 7.2 rebounds per game for the Orange last season. He recorded a double-double in each of his last three games with Syracuse, including 11 points and 12 rebounds against NC State in the ACC Tournament.

He also scored 26 points, the most he tallied in any game this season, against Scheyer and the Blue Devils in January.

The former Orange forward is 18th on EvanMiya’s transfer portal rankings.

The predictions come after Brown took a three-day visit with the Blue Devils from Wednesday through Friday.

Former Syracuse forward Maliq Brown scheduled to visit the Blue Devils

Maliq Brown, the former Syracuse Orange forward, will visit Duke later this week. He averaged 9.5 points and 7.2 rebounds as a sophomore last season.

Former Syracuse forward Maliq Brown will visit Durham from Wednesday through Friday, according to On3’s Joe Tipton.

Brown, a 6-foot-8 player who just finished his sophomore season, averaged 9.5 points and 7.2 rebounds per game in 2023-24. He tallied five double-doubles over the season, and his most productive game on the offensive end came against the Blue Devils.

Brown scored 26 points, his only 20-point game of the season after he made 11 of his 16 attempts, but Duke won the game by 20 points.

According to EvanMiya’s portal tracker, Brown is a five-star portal prospect, and he’s the 12th-best player available. He’s solid on both ends of the floor, with an Offensive Bayesian Performance Rating of 3.17 (31st among available players) and a Defensive Bayesian Performance Rating of 2.09 (26th among available players).

Only 11 other players have a rating above 2.00 on both ends.

Brown would help add depth to a frontcourt that lost Kyle Filipowski to the NBA draft and Christian Reeves and Mark Mitchell to the transfer portal since the end of the season.

Jala Wright named ACC Pitcher of the Week for the second time.

The senior pitcher tossed 10 shutout innings against Syracuse over the weekend, allowing four hits and striking out 10 batters.

Duke senior Jala Wright was named ACC Pitcher of the Week for the second time on Tuesday after she tossed 10 shutout innings against Syracuse.

Wright took the mound first on Saturday, pitching the first six innings of the series. She started again in the final game on Sunday, going the first four innings. She struck out 10 combined batters over her two appearances, and the Orange only managed four hits and two walks against her.

Her last four appearances have all been shutouts, and Wright hasn’t allowed a run since February 16. She struck out 14 batters in a single game against Michigan State on Feb. 24.

Wright has thrown 37.2 innings so far this season, and she’s allowed just 15 hits and five walks. She’s struck out 48 batters, and her ERA is currently just 0.37, the ninth-best mark in the nation.

The Blue Devils senior is also fifth in hits allowed per seven innings (2.79) and 32nd in strikeouts per seven innings (8.9) so far this season.

Wright was named ACC Pitcher of the Week for the first time this season on February 13 after she allowed one run and three hits across 10.2 innings over opening weekend.

Duke softball stays within top five of D1Softball rankings after Syracuse sweep

Duke didn’t allow a run over the entire weekend in a three-game sweep over Syracuse that featured 10 scoreless innings from star pitcher Jala Wright. The performance kept them in D1Softball’s top five.

Duke softball remained in the top five of D1Softball’s weekly rankings on Monday after a weekend sweep of the Syracuse Orange.

The Blue Devils, now 15-1 for the season and 3-0 in conference play, didn’t allow a run for the entire three-game series.

They began with a 7-0 win on Saturday, the first game of a double-header. Star pitcher Jala Wright continued her exceptional form with six shutout innings, allowing one hit and two walks while striking out five batters.

Wright took the mound again on Sunday, throwing the first four innings and surrendering three hits but again striking out five batters. She earned her seventh win of the season for the latter performance, and she retired her last six batters in a row.

The performances gave Wright four consecutive shoutout starts with 20 combined innings between them. She sports an ERA of 0.37 with more than three times as many strikeouts (48) as hits allowed (15) through her 37.2 innings of work this season.

The second game of Saturday’s double-header ended almost the exact same way with a 6-0 Duke victory. Senior Francesca Frelick, who batted in two runs during the first game against the Orange, batted in two more in the second with a double in the fourth inning.

Frelick has been a run machine for the Blue Devils as of late. Her four RBIs on Saturday gave her 13 runs batted in over her last six games, including a six-RBI performance against Michigan State.

Senior Claire Davidson also mashed a solo home run in the fourth inning, her fifth shot of the year and her second RBI of the afternoon.

The offense did the least damage in Sunday’s finale, with a three-run triple from first baseman Gisele Tapia in the bottom of the first providing the game’s only three runs.

Texas took over the top spot in the D1Softball poll from three-time defending national champion Oklahoma, who dropped to second. LSU and Oklahoma State rounded out the rest of the top 10.

Three other ACC teams made the site’s top 25. Clemson came in 11th, Virginia Tech slotted in 15th, and Florida State rounded out the trio in 16th.

Men’s Basketball: Duke’s ACC opponents for 2024 are set

The ACC released its conference opponent schedule for 2024-25 on Thursday evening. See who Duke will host and travel to here.

The Duke Blue Devils have officially entered the month of March, which means things will get serious for them on the basketball court. The Blue Devils have just three regular-season games remaining before they play in the ACC Tournament and, after that, the NCAA Tournament for a chance to win the program’s sixth national title.

Even while that takes place, there’s an eye on next year’s team as the Blue Devils discover who their conference opponents will be for the 2024-25 season.

Next year is a big year for the ACC as it welcomes three new teams to the conference: SMU, Stanford, and California.

The expansion means some tweaks to the normal ACC schedule, however, and the conference revealed each team’s ACC foes for the 2024-25 season on Thursday.

Duke’s 20-game schedule for 2024-25 features two two-game series (home and away) versus its two current partners, North Carolina and Wake Forest. The Blue Devils are 1-2 currently this year against both teams. They also have a home-and-away series with the Miami Hurricanes for next season.

Duke will host California at Cameron Indoor for the first time. The last time the schools played was in 2019 when Duke blew Cal out by 35 points in an 87-52 win in the 2K Empire Classic.

Florida State, NC State, Notre Dame, Pitt, Stanford, and Virginia Tech will all come to Cameron next year. Duke will travel for road games at Boston College, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Louisville, SMU, Syracuse, and Virginia next season.

Duke is 3-1 all-time against SMU in basketball. The Blue Devils’ road trip to SMU is only their second all-time, having played in Dallas on Dec. 8, 1977 โ€“ a game which Duke won by 24 points 91-67.

The ACC recently announced that, with the conference expanding to 18 members, only the top 15 teams in the conference will participate in the ACC Tournament next year, which is set to be played March 11-15 at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The full schedule will be announced early this fall, equipped with specific game dates, times, and networks.

Duke soundly beats No. 17 Syracuse on the road for statement victory

The Blue Devils played their third straight ranked opponent on Thursday and finally picked up a win, beating the Orange on the road in a defensive battle.

The Duke women’s basketball team faced its third consecutive ranked opponent on Thursday night, the No. 17 Syracuse Orange.

After back-to-back losses to Virginia Tech and Notre Dame, however, the Blue Devils came out on the right side of the defensive battle with a 58-45 win on the road.

The Duke defense completely stifled Syracuse for the entire opening half, as the Orange only had 17 points by halftime.

Star guard Dyaisha Fair, who was named the Jersey Mike’s Naismith Women’s College Player of the Week earlier this month, made just seven of her 25 shots and finished 1/7 from beyond the 3-point line. Fair still managed 22 points, almost her exact average so far this season, but she entered Thursday’s game shooting 40% on the year.

Her teammate Georgia Woolley finished 3/11 from the floor, and no Orange player with more than two attempts shot better than 33% for the evening. Syracuse ended the game shooting 25% from the floor and 18.8% from beyond the arc as a team.

On the offensive end, the Blue Devils had a disappointing day from long range, making just three of 18 3-point attempts, but the interior efficiency was more than enough given how hard they made Syracuse’s life across the court.

Center Kennedy Brown led the team with 12 points, making four of her six attempts, while Reigan Richardson added 11 points of her own. Taina Mair couldn’t get her 3-pointers to fall, but she dished out nine assists to her teammates, a new season high.

Duke was as dominant on the glass as it was on defense. Guard Jadyn Donovan came down with 15 rebounds, seven of them on the offensive end, and three other Blue Devils finished with five or more rebounds. On the night, Duke more than doubled the Orange on the boards with 52 to Syracuse’s 25.

The win, Duke’s 17th on the season, moved the Blue Devils to 9-6 in conference play with three games left in the regular season. A massive in-state matchup looms against No. 6 NC State on Sunday.

Which current and former Ohio State football transfers have something to prove in 2024?

It will be interesting to see which current and former Buckeye transfer will excel. #GoBucks

We are firmly in the era of the transfer portal, and Ohio State football has seen some player go and some get welcomed into the program.

There is no doubt that during the winter transfer window, the Buckeyes gained some high-impact transfers from across the country. The big additions included former Alabama safety Caleb Downs and quarterback Julian Sayin, Ole Miss running back Quinshon Judkins and Kansas State quarterback Will Howard.

As the dust has settled, Brad Crawford of 247Sports looked at which transfers have the most to prove this season. Check out below which current and former Buckeyes made his list.