Duquesne MBB Staff to Zoom with Creighton Transfer

The Duquesne men’s basketball staff is hard at work in the transfer portal, looking to build next year’s team.

The Dukes’ staff has scheduled a zoom meeting with a high-major transfer.

Duquesne’s staff will zoom with Creighton transfer Larry Johnson this upcoming Tuesday, Johnson told The Portal Report.

Johnson, a 6-foot-4, 200-pound guard, redshirted his freshman season at Creighton before entering the portal. The Savannah, Georgia native was ranked as the No. 57 prospect in the class of 2024 in high school. The four-star prospect was a top-ten shooting guard in the nation, according to 247 Sports.

Duquesne has lost three players to the transfer portal so far: Tre Dinkins III, Kareem Rozier, and Matus Hronsky.

The transfer portal officially opened up on March 24 for 30 days this year.

Dinkins spent one year with the program after committing to Dru Joyce III on April 24, 2024. This season, he led the Dukes in scoring at 12.9 points per game. Dinkins shot 41% from the field and 38% from three-point range. He scored in double figures 25 out of 32 games this season for the Dukes.

Dinkins is a 6-foot-2, 190-pound guard out of Chester, Pennsylvania. He spent the prior two seasons at Canisius, dramatically improving his numbers in a bigger role in the 2023-24 campaign. Dinkins played more than 35 minutes per game on average and scored 15.4 points per contest for the Golden Griffins. He shot 41% from the field and 37% from three-point range this year and hit 85 of his 233 three-point attempts on more than seven three pointers attempted per game.

Hronsky, a 6-foot-8 forward, spent three seasons at Duquesne. He played in a career-high 32 games this year while also setting a career mark with 11 starts. Hronsky averaged 5.2 points per game in 16.9 minutes. He shot 35% from three — a career-high number for his collegiate campaign. As a freshman, he played in 19 games with zero starts. Hronsky then played in 24 games for the 2023-24 team that went to the NCAA Tournament and knocked off BYU. He also averaged 1.9 rebounds per game in his final season with the Dukes, his junior year.

In 32 games this past season, Rozier averaged 6.7 points per game, 3.3 assists, 1.9 rebounds, while shooting 33.5% from the field. All of those numbers for a career-high for Rozier. As a junior, the fiery guard averaged 5.2 points, 2.4 assists and 1.8 rebounds.