One Player’s Seasonal Plan Is Leaked by Duke Basketball
Caleb Foster will be a sophomore in the 2024–25 Blue Devils’ backcourt alongside junior-to-be floor general Tyrese Proctor, the Duke basketball program announced via a tease on Saturday for Monday morning’s first offseason episode of The Brotherhood Podcast. This information was made very subtly but abundantly evident.
The host of the Duke Basketball Roundup podcast, Jason Evans, spotted and initially reported on the clear hint. The first sentence in the show description for the sitdown reflection time and lookahead between Foster and Proctor (alongside The Brotherhood Podcast host and second-year Duke graduate big man Ryan Young) from last season was left by the Blue Devils’ social media team:
On Thursday night, national college hoops insider Adam Zagoria broke the initial news of Proctor’s return.
For the 2023–24 Blue Devils, Proctor and Foster received a total of 40 starting selections; frequently, though, one of them would replace the other in three-guard lineups because of injury woes.
Jared McCain, a freshman who was among the four talented backcourt players from the previous season, has already announced that he will enter the NBA Draft as a first-round pick, so he will not be returning.
Apart from the possibility of additional transfers coming in and going out, the only other unanswered question mark is senior and second-year captain Jeremy Roach. He can choose to play for a fifth year because the NCAA does not include his rookie campaign in 2020–21.
On that point, though, it appears from the show description for The Brotherhood Podcast, which will debut on Monday at 6 a.m. ET, that Roach has no intention of staying on to complete his graduate studies and then relaunch the show with Tyrese Proctor and Caleb Foster.
Thus far this offseason, Christian Reeves, Jaylen Blakes, and Mark Mitchell of Duke basketball have all been declared departures. Ryan Young’s eligibility has ended. The two Blue Devils who have declared their early departure to the next level are Kyle Filipowski and Jared McCain.
With the exception of Jeremy Roach’s selection, the only three players remaining from Jon Scheyer’s second team as head coach are sophomore guard Jaden Schutt (who redshirted in 2022–2023), freshman forwards Sean Stewart, and TJ Power.
Whoever returns will be a teammate to the top recruiting class in the country, which includes centers Khaman Maluach and Patrick Ngongba II, four-star wing Darren Harris, and a few five-star prospects in forwards Cooper Flagg, Isaiah Evans, and Kon Knueppel.
