One Duke basketball player’s large list of possible suitors includes a few of well-known former Blue Devils.
It didn’t take long for news to spread that a 2023 McDonald’s All-American had entered the transfer portal. No, within the first 24 hours of the announcement, it appears that the evident talent of 2023-24 Duke basketball freshman Sean Stewart, an athletically gifted and consistently competitive forward, became immediately appealing to well over a dozen teams throughout the country.
According to a report on Saturday afternoon by 24/7 High School Hoops, Harvard and Arizona State are interested in the 6-foot-9, 227-pound Stewart, both of whom are led by former Blue Devils Tommy Amaker and Bobby Hurley, respectively.
On a possibly related note, Amaker and Hurley were in Durham at the same time as Grant Hill, Stewart’s long-time neighbor and mentor from his hometown of Windermere, Fla.
Amaker, Harvard’s head coach since 2007, was a youthful assistant coach under Mike Krzyzewski for Hill’s remarkable four-year college tenure. And Hurley, who recently signed a two-year extension after his ninth season at Arizona State, was Hill’s Duke teammate for three years, as well as a fellow back-to-back national champion (1991, 1992) whose retired jersey number is now permanently displayed at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
According to 24/7 High School Hoops, the other schools in contact with Stewart are from a variety of states and conferences, including Kansas State, Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, Southern California, Florida State, Cincinnati, Georgetown, Miami, Michigan, Ohio State, Baylor, Texas A&M, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Cal, Stanford, South Carolina, Washington, Howard, and UC Santa Barbara.
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Despite arriving as a five-star recruit from prep powerhouse Montverde Academy (Fla.), where he played with now-incoming Blue Devil recruiting prize Cooper Flagg, Sean Stewart averaged only 2.6 points and 3.2 rebounds in 33 games for second-year head coach Jon Scheyer. But it’s worth noting his team-leading stats per 40 minutes on the court: 15.3 rebounds, 2.5 steals, and 2.3 blocks.
Meanwhile, on the same day that the 19-year-old son of retired eight-year NBA journeyman Michael Stewart became the eighth Duke basketball player to enter this year’s portal, Scheyer and his teammates signed their first transfer for next season. Maliq Brown, a 2023-24 Syracuse sophomore forward and ACC All-Defensive Team selection, is one example of this.
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