Duke basketball roster 2024-25: Who will join Tyrese Proctor, Cooper Flagg in starting lineup?

In just over four and a half months, Duke basketball will start the 2024-25 season with a new-look squad hoping to help the Blue Devils make a deep run in March Madness.

Duke won 27 games for the second season in a row under Jon Scheyer, who is entering his third year as head coach. In the months since the Blue Devils’ Elite Eight loss to N.C. State in the NCAA Tournament, Scheyer has seen nine players leave the program.

Seven players from last season’s squad entered the transfer portal and two — Jared McCain and Kyle Filipowski — entered the NBA Draft as expected first-round picks.

Duke will have 10 new faces, including a six-player 2024 recruiting class headlined by Cooper Flagg, on this year’s team. Mason Gillis (Purdue), Sion James (Tulane), Maliq Brown (Syracuse) and Cameron Sheffield (Rice) joined the Blue Devils via the transfer portal.

Here’s what the starting lineup could look like when the Blue Devils tip off the 2024-25 season in early November.

Duke basketball starting lineup prediction

Here’s an early starting lineup prediction for Duke to start the 2024-25 season.

Tyrese Proctor

A captain last season, Proctor is expected to carry that same title into his junior year as the Blue Devils’ most experienced player. The 6-foot-5 guard dealt with injuries and inconsistencies as a sophomore, but showed flashes of his defensive prowess, shot making and playmaking. Proctor averaged 10.5 points per game and finished with a team-best 118 assists last year. If Proctor plays at an All-ACC level, Duke will be as dangerous as any team in the country.

Caleb Foster

One of Duke’s “starting six” as a freshman, Foster was starting to find his groove when an ankle injury caused him to miss the most important stretch of the Blue Devils’ season. Like Proctor, the 6-foot-5 sophomore guard knows what Scheyer expects when it comes to leadership within the program. Foster averaged 7.7 points, 2.4 rebounds, 2.1 rebounds and 25.4 minutes per game as a freshman. He also shot…

Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/duke-basketball-roster-2024-25-080217506.html

Author : The Fayetteville Observer

Publish date : 2024-06-21 08:02:17

Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.