Duke Basketball: Another Transfer Reports Interest From Blue Devils

Two quality transfers have heard from the Duke basketball program within the past week.

Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer / Sarah Stier/GettyImages

Last year, Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer and his staff neither lost nor gained a scholarship player through the transfer route. There's still a chance that could happen again this year, but it looks as though the Blue Devils have reached out to at least a couple of players already in the transfer portal.

A few days ago, 24/7 High School Hoops reported that Stanford transfer Kanaan Carlyle has heard from Duke, along with Texas Tech, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Miami, Villanova, Indiana, UCLA, Cincinnati, Florida State, Clemson, Gonzaga, and Baylor. The 6-foot-3 freshman guard, who was on the Blue Devils' radar early on in his recruitment as a four-star prep but never landed an offer out of Durham, averaged 11.5 points, 2.7 rebounds, and 2.7 assists for the Cardinal this season.

And on Monday, Harvard forward Justice Ajogbor told 247Sports that he's received at least some level of interest from the Blue Devils, in addition to UCLA, Northwestern, Loyola Chicago, Georgetown, Seton Hall, Cal Berkeley, Arkansas, Butler, Howard, Iona, Clemson, UMass, and others. The 6-foot-10 bruiser, a former three-star prospect in the 2020 recruiting cycle, averaged 8.4 points and 6.5 boards as a senior for Crimson head coach and Duke basketball alum Tommy Amaker.

Scheyer and his crew are set to welcome the nation's No. 1 recruiting class, a six-deep bunch featuring top-ranked talent Cooper Flagg plus four other five-stars and a four-star. Meanwhile, their current roster includes about a dozen scholarship players with eligibility remaining, although the expectation is at least one or two will enter the pro ranks this year while perhaps a few more will transfer out of the program.

Of course, for now, the No. 4 seed Blue Devils are more focused on gearing up for their Sweet 16 showdown with No. 1 seed Houston in Dallas' American Airlines Center on Friday night.

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