Through a preview for Monday morning's first offseason episode of the Saturday Brotherhood Podcast, the Duke basketball program announced that Caleb Foster will be a sophomore alongside juniors in the Blue Devils' backcourt for the 2024-25 season. , quite quietly but clearly throughout the day. Tyrese Proctor becomes House General.
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Duke Basketball Roundup Podcast host Jason Evans spotted the obvious clue and was the first to report it. The Blue Devils' social media team left some sit-down reflection time and look ahead between Foster and Proctor in the form of the first sentence of the following program description (last season's Duke second-year big man's Brotherhood podcast (with host Ryan Young):
“The first offseason episode of 2024 is here, featuring next year's backcourt: Caleb Foster and Tyrese Proctor…”
News of Proctor's plans to return was first reported by National College Hoops official Adam Zagoria on Thursday night.
Proctor and Foster combined to start 40 games for the Blue Devils in 2023-24, with one often replacing the other in three-guard lineups due to injury issues.
Meanwhile, freshman Jared McCain, another member of last season's four-tier pool of starting backcourt talent, has already declared for the NBA draft as a potential first-round pick and will not return.
As for the other, fourth-year and sophomore captain Jeremy Roach remains the only question mark, aside from the possibility of more outbound and inbound transfers. He has the option of playing a fifth year, as the NCAA does not count his rookie season in 2020-21 as eligibility.
But in that regard, the aforementioned program description for the Brotherhood podcast, scheduled to premiere Monday at 6 a.m. ET, can be seen as an indication that Roach has no intention of staying back for a year of grad school and starting over with Caleb Foster. You can do it too. Tyrese Proctor.
Mark Mitchell, Jalen Blakes and Christian Reeves have been announced as overseas transfers from Duke basketball so far this offseason. Ryan Young has let his eligibility expire. Kyle Filipowski joins Jared McCain as two Blue Devils to announce early departures to the next level.
Aside from Jeremy Roach's decision, sophomore guard Jaden Schutt (who redshirted for the 2022-23 season) and freshman forwards Sean Stewart and TJ Power are the only players in John Scheier's position as head coach. There are currently only three players from the second team who have not confirmed their return, at least publicly. (They don't have to, but fans in this transfer portal-dominated era are naturally always on the lookout for such things).
Whoever returns will consist of four-star wing Darren Harris, several five-star prospects forwards Cooper Flagg, Isiah Evans and Con Knuppel, and centers Carman Maluha and Patrick Ngomba. He will be a teammate of the nation's No. 1 recruiting class. II.
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