Duke basketball has its highest-profile transfer addition of the portal era.
Wisconsin transfer guard John Blackwell announced Tuesday that he will be spending his final season of college basketball at Duke, ending one of the most high-profile transfer recruitments of the portal window. Blackwell picked Duke over UCLA, Louisville and Illinois (whose interest waned after retaining much of its 2026 Final Four team), a seismic win for the Blue Devils to land arguably the best guard in this year’s portal. Blackwell averaged 19.1 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game as a junior at Wisconsin, ranking in the top 10 in the Big Ten in points per game and near the top of the conference in three-point percentage at 39%. He joins Belmont transfer big man Drew Scharnowski as the Blue Devils retool their roster in the portal.
