The long, growing list of potential suitors for outbound Duke basketball freshman forward Sean Stewart include a couple of well-known former Blue Devils.
. No, within the first 24 hours or so of the announcement, it appears the obvious potential of 2023-24 Duke basketball freshman Sean Stewart, an athletically gifted and consistently competitive forward, became instantly attractive to well over a dozen programs across the country.on Saturday afternoon, the 6-foot-9, 227-pound Stewart's interested parties include Harvard and Arizona State, each led by a former Blue Devil in the Crimson's Tommy Amaker and Sun Devils' Bobby Hurley.
On a possibly related note, Amaker and Hurley were both in Durham the same time as Grant Hill, who just so happens to be Stewart's long-time neighbor and mentor back in his hometown of Windermere, Fla. Amaker, who has been Harvard's head coach since 2007, was a young assistant coach under Mike Krzyzewski throughout Hill's legendary four-year college career. And Hurley, who just a signed a two-year extension following his ninth season at Arizona State, was Hill's Duke teammate for three years, not to mention a fellow back-to-back national champion with a retired jersey number now forever hanging in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
As for the others already in contact with Stewart, per 24/7 High School Hoops, they span a multitude of states and conferences: Kansas State, Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, Southern Cal, Florida State, Cincinnati, Georgetown, Miami, Michigan, Ohio State, Baylor, Texas A&M, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Cal, Stanford, South Carolina, Washington, Howard, and UC Santa Barbara.
Meanwhile, also occurring the day after the 19-year-old son of retired eight-year NBA journeyman Michael Stewart became the seventh Duke basketball player to enter this year's portal, Scheyer and his cohorts reeled in theirMatt Giles is the editor and publisher of FanNation's Blue Devil Country and All Tar Heels, covering the Duke Blue Devils and UNC Tar Heels on SI.com.
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