Duke Extends Head Coach Jon Scheyer By way of 2030-31 Faculty Basketball Season

Duke coach Jon Scheyer has agreed to a two-year extension working by means of the 2030-31 season as he enters his fourth 12 months coming off a Remaining 4 run.

The varsity introduced the deal Thursday for the 38-year-old successor to retired Corridor of Famer Mike Krzyzewski. Scheyer is a former Blue Devils participant who helmed a run to the NCAA title as a senior in 2010, and was an assistant on Krzyzewski’s employees that received the 2015 title.

He is coming off a second ACC Match title – the primary got here in his 2023 debut season – in addition to his first Remaining 4 run as a head coach.

“He has delivered championships and nationwide prominence, and he continues to steer a program constructed on character, connection and a relentless pursuit of greatness,” athletic director Nina King stated in a press release. “Jon’s imaginative and prescient for Duke Basketball aligns completely with our highest aspirations, and we couldn’t be extra excited for the way forward for this program below his management.”

Scheyer is 89-22 by means of his first three seasons, together with turning into the primary coach to win two ACC Match titles in his first three seasons. His second group reached the NCAA Elite Eight, then final 12 months’s group – led by Related Press males’s nationwide participant of the 12 months and eventual first total NBA draft decide Cooper Flagg – received 35 video games and reached the nationwide semifinals earlier than falling to Houston.

Scheyer has additionally remained an elite recruiter to maintain the Blue Devils program elite, with Duke having earned 247Sports’ No. 1-ranked recruiting class in 2022, 2024 and 2025 whereas rating second in 2023.

The varsity had designated Scheyer as coach-in-waiting in June 2021 forward of Krzyzewski’s farewell season, with the Blue Devils reaching the Remaining 4 in New Orleans earlier than falling to rival North Carolina in what marked the official transition to Scheyer’s tenure.

Scheyer first arrived at Duke as a slender guard from Northbrook, Illinois, in 2006. He returned to Duke for the 2013-14 season, first as a particular assistant earlier than being elevated to assistant coach and later affiliate head coach.

And he has leaned into these long-running ties to the varsity, together with becoming a member of with spouse Marcelle in launching a “Child Captain” program giving sufferers of the Duke Kids’s Hospital entry to the group and gameday tributes in famously rowdy Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Scheyer stated final week that that program is increasing to create a place on the hospital to work towards enhancing the expertise of sufferers there.

Reporting by The Related Press.

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