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Duke announced in June 2021 that then-associate head coach and former Blue Devils guard Jon Scheyer would replace legendary head coach Mike Krzyzewski after the 2022 season, following Coach K’s 42-year run in Durham.
Here’s everything you need to know about the college career of Duke’s new head coach.
Our 20th head coach. Starting April 2022.
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School: Duke
Position: Guard
Height: 6-5
Weight: 190 pounds
Years active: 2006-10
NCAA tournament record: 9-3
Career averages: 14.4 points per game, 3.6 rebounds per game, 3.1 assists per game, 40.6% shooting
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Duke went 115-29 (.798) in Jon Scheyer’s four years of college. Duke’s win total increased each year, from 22 wins to 28, 30 and then 35.
Scheyer was a prep phenom and ranked as the No. 28 player nationally in the 2006 recruiting class, according to the Recruiting Services Consensus Index (RSCI). A native of Northbrook, Illinois, he led Glenbrook North to its first boys basketball Class AA state title in 2005, when he scored a game-high 27 points against Carbondale.
As part of a 52-point effort, Scheyer once scored 21 points in the span of one minute and 15 seconds of game time at the Proviso West holiday tournament. One of the spectators in a packed gym that night was Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. You can watch the incredible sequence below.
Here’s the game story from Bob Sakamoto in the next day’s Chicago Tribune (click or tap here to open in a separate window)
Scheyer once scored a game-high 18 points against Derrick Rose and Simeon High School. Scheyer, a two-time Gatorade Illinois Player of the Year and an Illinois Mr. Basketball honoree, ultimately chose Duke over Illinois. He was a McDonald’s and Parade All-American in high school.
Scheyer was one of the most efficient men’s college basketball players when he attended Duke. He twice ranked among the 10 most efficient players in the sport, according to kenpom.com, as his 127.6 offensive rating in 2008 ranked eighth and his 127.0 rating in 2010 ranked 10th. He ranked in the top 40 as a junior, too. He was a 38-percent 3-point shooter in each of those seasons, while also getting to the free-throw line with regularity, where he was an all-time great among Duke players.
He attempted 706 free throws in his career compared to 1,442 field goal attempts, which means he posted a career free-throw rate of nearly 49 percent. Scheyer also improved as a play-maker as a senior, posting a career-best 25.8-percent assist rate, which means he assisted on roughly one out of every four baskets Duke made when he was on the floor.
As a senior, Scheyer was part of the highest-scoring trio in the country, when he, Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith averaged 61 points per game.
The most productive statistical game of Jon Scheyer’s college career was a near triple-double against Gardner-Webb his senior year, when he scored 36 points on 11-of-13 shooting with nine assists and eight rebounds, plus seven 3-pointers.
He scored at least 20 points 32 times in 141 career games, including 20 points, along with five rebounds and four assists, against Baylor in the Elite Eight of the 2010 NCAA tournament, and 23 points and six assists in a win over West Virginia in the Final Four. He made at least one 3-pointer in 38 of the 39 games he played in as a senior, including 29 games with multiple threes. He went 6-for-12 from deep against Long Beach State, and 5-for-10 and 5-for-9 in those back-to-back NCAA tournament wins over Baylor and West Virginia.
In the 2009 ACC championship, Scheyer hit a 3-pointer in the final 30 seconds against Georgia Tech as Duke won 65-61, as the Blue Devils won their ninth ACC championship in a 12-year span.
Scheyer was also featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated after Duke won the 2010 NCAA tournament.
(all stats through 2021 season)
Andy Wittry has written for Stadium, SI.com, Sporting News, the Indianapolis Star, Louisville Courier-Journal and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He is a graduate of Indiana University.
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