Alex O'Connell charges to the rim and throws down a two-handed poster dunk. 2 in ESPN's Way-Too-Early Top 25, as McDermott is expected to bring all five starters back from a team that won 11 of its final 13 games and earned the 1-seed in the Big East tournament.
The former top-75 recruit garnered nearly two dozen scholarship offers out of high school, including Louisville, Auburn, Syracuse, Georgia and Georgia Tech, before picking Duke.O'Connell likely won't be the last of the Duke defections this offseason, either.
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As a team, Creighton ranked in the top 10 nationally in 3-point shooting percentage.Creighton ranks No.
His playing time was hit-or-miss throughout the season, and his final Duke game he played just 3 minutes in a loss to Virginia on Feb. 29.O'Connell committed to Duke in 2017 and was considered to be a sharpshooting coup for Duke and Mike Krzyzewski, but after hitting 48.9% of his 3-pointers as a freshman, his averages dipped, hitting a 37.5% clip as a sophomore and just 27.3% from 3-point range as a junior. As a junior this season, he averaged career-highs in points per game (5.2 points), rebounds per game (2.2), assists per game (0.8), but played the fewest minutes per game since his freshman season.
section: | slug: dukes-alex-oconnell-announces-he-will-transfer-from-blue-devils-program-after-three-seasons | sport: collegebasketball | route: article_single.us | Here’s more on Alex O’Connell’s decision to transfer to Creighton. Duke's Alex O'Connell announces he will transfer from Blue Devils program after three seasons O'Connell, a former top-75 hoops recruit, played three seasons and made 14 starts
"O'Connell, a 6-foot-6 shooting guard from Georgia, spent the past three seasons in mostly a reserve role for Duke. Alex O'Connell would go through many different adventures throughout his lifetime, progressing to the point in his life in which he became an archaeologist, as did his mother and father.
Discovery of Bracelet of Anubis Alex accompanied his parents on digs and explorations of ruins in his youth, having an interest in Ancient Egyptian lore.
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