MBB: The 2025 Transfer Portal

CDu said:
Probably the biggest hurdle to Foster being a primary playmaker is that he is a bad FT shooter. Notice that the other examples in your list all shot really well from the FT line? All but one was above 80%, and all were 78% or better. In late games close, you aren’t going to want the ball in Foster’s hands, because he is not reliable at all at the line.

That is to say nothing of his actual playmaking. I would venture that most of his assists this year were of the “swinging the ball around the perimeter” variety.

I agree with you that the “traditional PG” is less common these days, as offenses are having to diversify to beat increasingly more sophisticated defenses. But the first point (about FT shooting is a concern. You don’t want to have to change things up with your ballhandling and playmaking late in games to avoid getting a poor FT shooter fouled.

Hopefully he can make a big jump at the FT line. But it would be fairly surprising to see such a jump.
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I expect a big step up for Caleb next year -- based on progress at end of 2025 and the fact that he is playing his 3rd year in the program.
 
Here are the ins and outs of the ACC so far. If anyone copies this list to another website (hint hint, Syracusefan.com board), please provide credit and a link to DBR.

March 31, 2025:
The transfer portal has been open for a week now. Verbal Commits shows 1,546 Division I players who have entered.

April 7, 2025:
After 2 weeks, Verbal Commits has 1,919 Division I players in the portal.

April 14, 2025:
It's Week 3 and Verbal Commits is up to 2,154 Division I players.

April 21, 2025:
With the portal closing tomorrow, Verbal Commits says 2,320 Division I players have entered.

April 28, 2025:
The portal is closed, unless there's a coaching change. Verbal Commits shows 2,541 Division I players.

Players with an asterisk (*) do not appear to have any remaining eligibility.


Boston College MBB

OUT

Joshua Beadle (to Coastal Carolina)
Dion Brown (to Saint Louis)
Chas Kelley III
Elijah Strong (to South Carolina)

IN

Jason Asemota (from Baylor)
Chase Forte (from South Dakota)
Boden Kapke (from Butler)
Aidan Shaw (from Missouri)


California MBB

OUT

Devin Curtis
Jaden Goodall
Gus Larson (to Queens)
Spencer Mahoney
Stephon Marbury II
Joshua Ola-Joseph (to Loyola Chicago)
BJ Omot (to Minnesota)
Vladimir Pavlović
Andrej Stojaković (to Illinois)
Christian Tucker
Hugh Vandeweghe
Jeremiah Wilkinson (to Georgia)

IN

Darrin "Dai Dai" Ames (from Virginia)
Chris Bell (from Syracuse)
John Camden (from Delaware)
Nolan Dorsey (from Campbell)
Miloš Ilić (from Loyola Maryland)
Justin Pippen (from Michigan)
Sammie Yeanay (from Grand Canyon)


Clemson MBB

OUT

Myles Foster*
Jake Heidbreder (to Fresno State)
Del Jones (to Radford)
Christian Reeves (to Charleston)
Jackson Roberts
Ian Schieffelin*
Asa Thomas (to Furman)
Chauncey Wiggins (to Florida State)
Jaeden Zackery*

IN

Nick Davidson (from Nevada)
RJ Godfrey (from Georgia)
Efrem Johnson (from UAB)
Jestin Porter (from MTSU)
Jake Wahlin (from Utah)
Carter Welling (from Utah Valley)


Duke MBB

OUT

Stanley Borden (link)

IN

Cedric Coward (link)


Florida State MBB

OUT

Taylor Bol Bowen (to Alabama)
Daquan Davis (to Providence)
Jerry Deng (to NC State)
Malique Ewin (to Arkansas)
Bostyn Holt
Chandler Jackson (to Arkansas State)
Waka Mbatch
Christian Nitu
Anastasios Rozakeas (to Mount St. Mary's)
Justin Thomas
Jamir Watkins

IN

Lajae Jones (from St. Bonaventure)
Kobe Magee (from Drexel)
Robert McCray V (from Jacksonville)
Martin Somerville (from UMass Lowell)
Alex Steen (from Division II Florida Southern)
Chauncey Wiggins (from Clemson)


Georgia Tech MBB

OUT

Naithan George (to Syracuse)
Emmer Nichols
Doryan Onwuchekwa (to Tulsa)
Duncan Powell (to Providence)
Ibrahim Souare (to Syracuse)
Darrion Sutton

IN

Kam Craft (from Miami OH)
Peyton Marshall (from Missouri)


Louisville MBB

OUT

Patrick Antonelli
Koren Johnson (to Ole Miss)
James Scott
Cole Sherman

IN

Ryan Conwell (from Xavier)
Isaac McKneely (from Virginia)
Adrian Wooley (from Kennesaw State)


Miami MBB

OUT

Xander Alarie (to Northeastern)
Jalil Bethea (to Alabama)
Jalen Blackmon*
Paul Djobet
Kiree Huie
Isaiah Johnson-Arigu (to Iowa St. Thomas)
Nijel Pack (to Oklahoma)
AJ Staton-McCray
Austin Swartz (to Creighton)
Divine Ugochukwu

IN

Marcus Allen (from Missouri)
Tre Donaldson (from Michigan)
Jordyn Kee (from Georgia)
Malik Reneau (from Indiana)
Ernest Udeh Jr (from TCU)
Tru Washington (from New Mexico)


NC State MBB

OUT

Ismaël Diouf (to Northern Iowa)
Bryce Heard
Marcus Hill (to Texas A&M)
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield*
Mike James (to Vanderbilt)
KJ Keatts
Ben Middlebrooks*
Dennis Parker Jr (to Radford)
Trey Parker
Breon Pass*
Dontrez Styles*

IN

Terrance Arceneaux (from Houston)
Alyn Breed (from McNeese)
Quadir Copeland (from McNeese)
Jerry Deng (from Florida State)
Tre Holloman (from Michigan State)
Colt Langdon (from Butler)


North Carolina/UNC MBB

OUT

Elliot Cadeau (to Michigan)
Ven-Allen Lubin
Ian Jackson (to St. John's)
Cade Tyson
Jalen Washington (to Vanderbilt)
Jae'Lyn Withers*

IN

Kyan Evans (from Colorado State)
Jonathan Powell (from West Virginia)
Jarin Stevenson (from Alabama)
Henri Veesaar (from Arizona)
Jaydon Young (from Virginia Tech)


Notre Dame MBB

OUT

Tae Davis (to Oklahoma)
JR Konieczny

IN

Carson Towt (from Northern Arizona)


Pittsburgh MBB

OUT

Marlon Barnes Jr (to Evansville)
Amsal Delalić
Guillermo Diaz Graham (to San Francisco)
Jorge Diaz Graham
Papa Amadou Kante (withdrawn; back to Pittsburgh)
Ishmael Leggett*
Jaland Lowe (to Kentucky)

IN

Barry Dunning Jr (from South Alabama)
Nojus Indrušaitis (from Iowa State)
Dishon Jackson (from Iowa State)
Damarco Minor (from Oregon State)


SMU MBB

OUT

Jerrell Colbert (to McNeese)
AJ George (to Cal State Bakersfield)
Yohan Traore (to SMU)

IN

Jaron Pierre Jr (from Jacksonville State)
Sam Walters (from Michigan)
Corey Washington (from Wichita State)


Stanford MBB

OUT

Derin Saran
Oziyah Sellers (to St. John's)

IN

(none)


Syracuse MBB

OUT

Chris Bell (to California)
Jaquan Carlos*
Kyle Cuffe Jr
Jyáre Davis*
Eddie Lampkin Jr*
Petar Majstorović (to Long Beach State)
Naheem McLeod*
Elijah Moore (to Utah)
Lucas Taylor*
Chance Westry (to UAB)

IN

Naithan George (from Georgia Tech)
Nate Kingz (from Oregon State)
William Kyle III (from UCLA)
Ibrahim Souare (from Georgia Tech)
Bryce Zephir (from Montana State)


Virginia MBB

OUT

Darrin "Dai Dai" Ames (to California)
Christian Bliss
Blake Buchanan (to Iowa State)
Jacob Cofie (to USC)
Dante Harris (to Memphis)
Isaac McKneely (to Louisville)
TJ Power (to Penn)
Desmond Roberts
Anthony Robinson (to Xavier)
Andrew Rohde (to Wisconsin)
Elijah Saunders (to Maryland)
Ishan Sharma (to St. Louis)
Jalen Warley (to Gonzaga)

IN

Martin Carrère (from VCU)
Dallin Hall (from BYU)
Sam Lewis (from Toledo)
Devin Tillis (from UC Irvine)
Jacari White (from North Dakota State)


Virginia Tech MBB

OUT

Rodney Brown Jr (to Loyola Marymount)
Ben Burnham*
Peter Carr
Ryan Jones Jr (to Liberty)
Brandon Rechsteiner (to Colorado State)
Connor Serven
Conner Venable
Patrick Wessler (to UNC Wilmington)
Jaydon Young (to High Point North Carolina/UNC)

IN

Amani Hansberry (from West Virginia)
Izaiah Pasha (from Delaware)


Wake Forest MBB

OUT

Churchill Abass (to New Orleans)
Davin Cosby (to Kennesaw State)
Parker Friedrichsen (to Davidson)
Mason Hagedorn
Ty-Laur Johnson
Efton Reid III*

IN

Nate Calmese (from Washington State)
Myles Colvin (from Purdue)
Mekhi Mason (from Washington)
Cooper Schwieger (from Valparaiso)

 
I find it unsurprising that this board has people who are champing at the bit for more 3 and 4 year players who have time to develop our skills and learn the system, while also having fans who have seen no progress over two years and can't see the logic in keeping someone around.

I know lots of folks here get frustrated by the "trust the coach" crowd, but in this instance I'm going to say exactly that.

Scheyer knows these players, their skills, their ceilings, and their potential far better than those of us who watch them for four hours a week. Jon also has a much stronger understanding of what the options and alternatives are for personnel.

This marks two off-seasons in a row that Jon and Caleb have assessed the situation and decided to stick together. I'm not "meh" about that - I'm enthusiastic about it.
 
Nugget said:
I don't know the requirements of the current NCAA NIL system well enough to know why it matters but this press report indicated it might have something to do with how Lubin's NIL contract is structured -- that because it is with a "third party" that would somehow leave it uniquely exposed to having its validity impacted were the House settlement to be approved.

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/north-carolina-forward-enters-transfer-161744032.html
“According to The Field of 68’s Jeff Goodman, Lubin’s deal with UNC involved a third-party NIL agreement. Entering the portal helps him protect himself legally and financially in case the House settlement changes how those deals are handled going forward.”

I guess the idea is that the House settlement might necessitate Lubin renegotiating his UNC deal and if he weren't already in the portal and hadn't declared for the draft he'd have no negotiating leverage b/c he'd have nowhere to go other than UNC?

But, I'd sort of assumed all of these NIL agreements are "third-party" contracts -- up until now, aren't none of them agreements directly with the universities? I'd assumed that even the agreements with "collectives" was still just using "collective" as a euphamism for groups of boosters that might be loosely (or not so loosely) affiliated with the school but were nonetheless in legal terms not the school (i.e., a "third party").

So, them, I'm back to sharing Sky Brickey's confusion as to what exactly makes Lubin's situation in relation to the potential impact of the House settlement unique.
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Maybe unCheat has some kind of 3rd party beneficiary theory.
 
kAzE said:
We have all watched Caleb Foster these past 2 years, and as someone who watches a ton of basketball and has done so for decades now, I just haven’t seen even flashes of an elite primary ball handler when I watch Caleb with the ball in his hands. He’s a good player, with pretty good size and athleticism. He’s definitely capable of getting hot and put up points in a hurry. He’s a good scorer at the D-1 level, and has potential defensively. But there’s a reason he got benched last year, and became the 5th option as the primary ball handler on that team.

He’s often indecisive, and doesn’t make quick reads with the ball in his hands. He was the only guy in last year’s team who would catch the ball and just dribble in place for 4-5 seconds instead moving the ball or quickly attacking off the dribble, as our other ball handlers did. He certainly wasn’t making high level reads the way Cooper did while probing opposing defenses and using fakes or his eyes to move defenders and throwing cross court skip passes to open shooters.

For about 3/4 of the season, he also just looked really slow. I’m not sure if he had some kind of nagging injury but prior to the tail end of the ACC season and the postseason, he just couldn’t get by anyone at all. I was extremely down on him up to that point. Later in the season he had a couple of games where he got in the game in garbage time and went bananas, and looked like he got back some of his explosiveness off the dribble, and was able to get in the paint a little bit.

In the postseason, he played sparingly, but when he was in the game, he was playing a specific role, where he was expending most of his energy on just being as annoying as possible on defense and scoring when he had opportunities. He did well in that role, but he still only played just over 10 minutes a game and averaged less 4 points a game in the postseason.

The point I’m trying to make is, if he truly is capable of being a point guard on a title contending team next year, shouldn’t we have seen some indication that he has it in him this past year? Of course, I wouldn’t rule it out completely, but I just think it’s kind of odd to be that optimistic about it when we’ve seen what we’ve seen in his 2 years so far. I think he can be the 1 on a good college team, but is the ceiling of that lineup a Final Four quality team? I’m just not that confident.
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I believe, quite strongly, that humans are incentive-based producers. Innately. If we don't need to do something, we typically don't do it. Or at least don't do it well.

Caleb has never faced the incentive he is facing. His fall last year was striking, significant, and obvious. However, his picking himself off the mat late in the year showed a character trait that can be a major foundational strength of his. If he capitalizes on it.

The story is not yet fully written with Caleb. We are exiting a dark chapter. Whether it has a happy ending is anybody's guess. But it's there for the taking for him. I would not say anything he has done or shown previously is solid proof of what he will do this year, because he's never faced this sort of incentive before (to my knowledge).

- Chillin
 
azzefkram said:
Didn't two players from Clemson enter the portal even though they had exhausted their eligibility? I think Schefflin (sp?) was one.
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Yes. Several players across the country have. Just in case they get an extra year of eligibility following the court rulings. It doesn’t seem likely to happen though.
 
ChillinDuke said:
I believe, quite strongly, that humans are incentive-based producers. Innately. If we don't need to do something, we typically don't do it. Or at least don't do it well.

Caleb has never faced the incentive he is facing. His fall last year was striking, significant, and obvious. However, his picking himself off the mat late in the year showed a character trait that can be a major foundational strength of his. If he capitalizes on it.

The story is not yet fully written with Caleb. We are exiting a dark chapter. Whether it has a happy ending is anybody's guess. But it's there for the taking for him. I would not say anything he has done or shown previously is solid proof of what he will do this year, because he's never faced this sort of incentive before (to my knowledge).

- Chillin
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A great post, Chillin with regards to Caleb. As I've said in other posts, I am really proud of Caleb Foster for working so hard last season. His play improved greatly at the end of the season. However, it was in limited minutes. Just as Isaiah played limited minutes. A lot depends on both of these players continuing to improve for Duke to be top 5-10 nationally. I'm betting on both. This season we don't have Cooper and Kon who could create offense for themselves and for others. We need that from someone this season. At this point, I would say Duke could be top 5 or top 15 nationally. A lot depends on the development of Caleb and Isaiah.

GoDuke!
 
dlmzzz said:
I think the issue is the NCAA’s requirements for progress toward a degree.
“40 percent of required coursework for a degree must be complete by the end of the second year, 60 percent by the end of the third year”

If a rising senior must have completed 60% of the credits required to graduate, and Duke won’t transfer more than 50% of the graduation requirements from another school, how would a senior transfer be eligible to play?

www.ncaa.org

Staying on Track to Graduate

Staying on Track to Graduate
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Two words: Riley Leonard.

Notre Dame's requirements are similar to Duke's. You need 60 of 124 credits to be taken *at Notre Dame*. And that's to say nothing of their requirements to take specific classes in the Catholic faith and other distribution requirements.

https://science.nd.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/degree-requirements/

I would bet that if we looked at 100 senior transfers, we'd find at least half of them will have no path to graduating from their university of choice in a single year. It's hardly unusual for a college to require that roughly half of a student's coursework must be taken at that school, and yet we have 100s of senior transfers every year.

So one of the following must be true:

1. The NCAA is only worried about how many classes a student has completed, not the specific graduation requirements of the school to which he's transferring.

2. The rules have changed since 2021.
 
This is a great time to share the new version of one of the best resources I've ever come across: Andrew Parrish's 2025-26 Scholarship Tracker, a Google spreadsheet. It covers every Division I team, divided up by conference. Click the tab at the bottom for the conference you want.

docs.google.com

2025-26 NCAA Scholarship Tracker

docs.google.com docs.google.com

I've used last year's version so many times that I've lost count. I just type in "sch" in my browser and the top three automatically generated options are the Duke MBB schedule, the Duke WBB schedule, and the scholarship tracker.

Here's a look at Duke. It's color-coded to show remaining years of eligibility, which is less confusing than trying to figure out where redshirts and grad students fit in with freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. You can see there's a total of 10 players, and 5 spaces available (right below Nikolas Khamenia) before you get to the 15-player limit line.

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Bookmark and browse if you're interested. It updates frequently; Cedric Coward and a bunch of other commits from the past 24 hours are already there. (This morning I learned that in-demand international recruit Harun Zrno committed to Rutgers because his name showed up.)

It's a good resource right now because we're looking at roster building, mostly for Duke, but for a lot of teams. The main thing I've noticed is that there are NO power conference teams that have filled their 15-player scholarship limit. The following teams are closest:

14: Butler, Houston

13: Boston College, Marquette, Northwestern, TCU

12: Clemson, Creighton, DePaul, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Purdue, Rutgers, SMU, St. John's, Vanderbilt, Washington, Wisconsin

It's possible that these or other teams are done, either because they're going with fewer than 15 players, or because they have non-scholarship players that get them to 15. (Alas, non-scholarship players are not included in the spreadsheet; the best place to check that is the official roster, which may or may be available. If this version is like the previous one, Andrew Parrish will add a feature telling you whether each team has posted the 2025-26 roster on their website; it will say Yes, No, or Partial.)
 
ChillinDuke said:
I believe, quite strongly, that humans are incentive-based producers. Innately. If we don't need to do something, we typically don't do it. Or at least don't do it well.

Caleb has never faced the incentive he is facing. His fall last year was striking, significant, and obvious. However, his picking himself off the mat late in the year showed a character trait that can be a major foundational strength of his. If he capitalizes on it.

The story is not yet fully written with Caleb. We are exiting a dark chapter. Whether it has a happy ending is anybody's guess. But it's there for the taking for him. I would not say anything he has done or shown previously is solid proof of what he will do this year, because he's never faced this sort of incentive before (to my knowledge).

- Chillin
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I mean, sure, this is the glass half full take, and I'd love to see a big improvement, but my point was that we just havent seen the flashes of potential as a playmaker. He's flashed really nice scoring ability at times, but I've never gotten PG vibes from him.

Guys like Wendell Moore, Tyrese Proctor, Nolan Smith, and plenty of others were not very good as freshmen, or even sophomores, but with all 3 of them, I saw them do things in their first couple of years that made me think, "wow, once they start doing that consistently, they are going to be awesome," and they all became really good as juniors as they matured. I just haven't seen the playmaking flashes from Caleb that would make me optimistic for a major stylistic change to the way he has played for 2 years.

Caleb is a really good player, but IMO, he's best utilized as a scorer. Even a guy like Tyrese Proctor, who I think is a better passer and more suited to run an offense, accepted a role last year as an off ball player. I'd be happy to be wrong, but we will find out.
 
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brevity said:
This is a great time to share the new version of one of the best resources I've ever come across: Andrew Parrish's 2025-26 Scholarship Tracker, a Google spreadsheet. It covers every Division I team, divided up by conference. Click the tab at the bottom for the conference you want.

docs.google.com

2025-26 NCAA Scholarship Tracker

docs.google.com docs.google.com

I've used last year's version so many times that I've lost count. I just type in "sch" in my browser and the top three automatically generated options are the Duke MBB schedule, the Duke WBB schedule, and the scholarship tracker.

Here's a look at Duke. It's color-coded to show remaining years of eligibility, which is less confusing than trying to figure out where redshirts and grad students fit in with freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors. You can see there's a total of 10 players, and 5 spaces available (right below Nikolas Khamenia) before you get to the 15-player limit line.

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Bookmark and browse if you're interested. It updates frequently; Cedric Coward and a bunch of other commits from the past 24 hours are already there. (This morning I learned that in-demand international recruit Harun Zrno committed to Rutgers because his name showed up.)

It's a good resource right now because we're looking at roster building, mostly for Duke, but for a lot of teams. The main thing I've noticed is that there are NO power conference teams that have filled their 15-player scholarship limit. The following teams are closest:

14: Butler, Houston

13: Boston College, Marquette, Northwestern, TCU

12: Clemson, Creighton, DePaul, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Purdue, Rutgers, SMU, St. John's, Vanderbilt, Washington, Wisconsin

It's possible that these or other teams are done, either because they're going with fewer than 15 players, or because they have non-scholarship players that get them to 15. (Alas, non-scholarship players are not included in the spreadsheet; the best place to check that is the official roster, which may or may be available. If this version is like the previous one, Andrew Parrish will add a feature telling you whether each team has posted the 2025-26 roster on their website; it will say Yes, No, or Partial.)
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Any idea if he plans to change now that the rules set a roster limit and not a scholarship limit?

The roster limit is in a state of flux right now -- that's the issue holding up the House settlement -- so it might be kind of a fool's errand to track it until that's settled.
 
da_devils said:
I don’t see Caleb ever being a primary playmaker. He always at least to me came off as an off ball scorer similar to Jeremy.
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Funny that you mention Jeremy, because this year's roster does remind me of the 2022 Final Four team. That team was build around a freshman star power forward Banchero (decent size and skills comp for Cam Boozer), with rim protection/screening/rim running from sophomore Mark Williams (Ngongba), floor spacing from sharpshooting freshman AJ Griffin (Evans, Harris), and combo guard backcourt of Roach and Keels (Foster, Coward). The 2026 team has much more depth in Brown and Khamenia, and a more traditional point in Cayden Boozer, but as of now it's unclear who will step into the jack-of-all-trades glue guy leader that Wendell Moore provided (maybe Coward?).
 
kAzE said:
I mean, sure, this is the glass half full take, and I'd love to see a big improvement, but my point was that we just havent seen the flashes of potential as a playmaker. He's flashed really nice scoring at times, but I've never gotten PG vibes from him.
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This is exactly where I am on Caleb. My guess is he’ll be a good player next season and it’s certainly possible he’ll do so in a role approximating PG. And I’m certainly hoping he thrives in whatever role the team needs him to play. But I’ve not to date seen things from him that make me think shot-creating PG is a good role for him or the team.

I’m not denying he can do it, I’m just saying I haven’t seen reason to expect it. That’s a key distinction that I think often gets lost in these conversations. I love so much of what I’ve seen about him as a player and teammate and I’m rooting for him to do things I haven’t yet seen from him. It has definitely happened before!

kAzE said:
Guys like Wendell Moore, Tyrese Proctor, Nolan Smith, and plenty of others were not very good as freshmen, or even sophomores, but with all 3 of them, I saw them do things in their first couple of years that made me think, "wow, once they start doing that consistently, they are going to be awesome," and they all became really good as juniors as they matured.
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I guess this is an unpopular opinion but IMO Tyrese Proctor was good (not great, but good) in the PG role his first two seasons, particularly when you account for injuries (sophomore year) and never really fully having the keys because of other guys having the ball a ton (Roach, Filipowski.) As a sophomore he had an assist rate of 21.3 against a turnover rate of 13.5 while hitting 35% of his threes and playing good defense. Subjectively, I thought the creativity and execution of his passing was more advanced than that of any Duke PG in years. He had 11 games with 5 or more assists his sophomore season and 8 such games as a freshman.

None of the other guys on this list showed nearly as much as a PG through 2 seasons as Proctor did. Caleb, for example, has 3 career games of 5+ assists, all in his freshman year, and his assist and turnover rates through two seasons are both notably worse than Proctor’s. Point being: Through two seasons Tyrese Proctor showed significantly more PG abilities than Caleb Foster has shown through two seasons — and there’s broad consensus that moving Proctor off-ball for his third was the right move.

Of course different teams have different personnel, and it’s possible that all of the following could be true: 1) Proctor showed more PG skills through two seasons than Foster; 2) Moving Proctor off-ball was the right approach to last year’s team; 3) Foster can be an effective PG on next year’s team.
 
Western said:
I guess this is an unpopular opinion but IMO Tyrese Proctor was good (not great, but good) in the PG role his first two seasons
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No, I agree with this, he was a good pass first point guard, and his defense was always pretty solid. I was trying to make a broader point so I grouped him with those other players without going into specifics.

With Proctor, it was his shotmaking and shot creation (for himself) that he showed glimpses of his first couple of years, but he never really did it consistently until last year. It was still streaky, but some of those hot streaks were crazy.
 
King of Defense said:
Two words: Riley Leonard.

Notre Dame's requirements are similar to Duke's. You need 60 of 124 credits to be taken *at Notre Dame*. And that's to say nothing of their requirements to take specific classes in the Catholic faith and other distribution requirements.

https://science.nd.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/degree-requirements/

I would bet that if we looked at 100 senior transfers, we'd find at least half of them will have no path to graduating from their university of choice in a single year. It's hardly unusual for a college to require that roughly half of a student's coursework must be taken at that school, and yet we have 100s of senior transfers every year.

So one of the following must be true:

1. The NCAA is only worried about how many classes a student has completed, not the specific graduation requirements of the school to which he's transferring.

2. The rules have changed since 2021.
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The other possibility is that schools make different decisions about whether they will accept an incoming senior transfer who has "no path to graduating" under that school's rules within the one year of eligibility.

And, Duke may be in a precarious position on this point given how close it was either before last season, or maybe it was the year before, of running under the minimum rolling 4 year APR numbers to remain eligible for the NCAA tournament due (I believe, not sure it was definitively determined) to the number of players on the 2021-2022 team who left school without graduating and without meeting the completion towards a degree requirements to be considered in good standing for NCAA purposes.

Scheyer, in conjunction with the university administration/admissions office, may have chosen not to roll the dice for a while on a player who they know coming in would be likely to count against Duke for APR purposes, particularly given the inherent risk of continuing to bring in talented recruits likely to leave for the NBA early -- so you always have the uncertainty that one or two of them may not complete the academic year successfully before they start Draft preparation.
 
I understand other posters' trepidation regarding the expected/hoped-for improvement from returning players. I feel it as well. What gives me solace is that Duke was faced with a similar situation last off-season and decided to go out and grab three starting-capable (YMMV) portalees. This off-season, Duke has grabbed one and looks to be done with the portal (though with Duke's Cone of Silence set to 11, who really knows?).

Duke sees these players more than we do and appears confident in their improvement. I would be surprised if next year's team is better than this year's, but that doesn't mean they won't be able to contend for a championship.
 
azzefkram said:
I understand other posters' trepidation regarding the expected/hoped-for improvement from returning players. I feel it as well. What gives me solace is that Duke was faced with a similar situation last off-season and decided to go out and grab three starting-capable (YMMV) portalees. This off-season, Duke has grabbed one and looks to be done with the portal (though with Duke's Cone of Silence set to 11, who really knows?).

Duke sees these players more than we do and appears confident in their improvement. I would be surprised if next year's team is better than this year's, but that doesn't mean they won't be able to contend for a championship.
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This x1000. For all his flaws as a young coach, one thing Jon has consistently shown he’s great at is self scouting and evaluating his own players. If he’s betting on our guys developing, I think that’s a pretty good sign.
 
Sion James was not a shot-creating PG and it worked out OK.

I believe Jon prefers to run an offense where shot-creation comes from all over the floor. Less predictable. More difficult to defend. More able to exploit mismatches.

We know Jon pays attention to his pal Joe Mazzula and what's happening in Boston. Their assists are spread pretty evenly across Tatum, Brown, Holliday, White. In fact their nominal PG, Jrue Holliday, has the fourth most assists in the starting lineup!

This is not the K Duke teams where he hands the keys to Bobby Hurley or Tyus Jones. Jon is not handing the keys to Caleb or Cayden next year. He's handing a key to every player on the floor.
 
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