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Carrick Felix, a 6-foot-6 wing player from the College of Southern Idaho, announced via his facebook page Tuesday that he intended to accept Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski’s scholarship offer and join the Blue Devils.
Felix is described as an extremely athletic player (a scouting report from Rivals.com described him as possessing “NBA Athleticism”) who is a tough-nosed [...]
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Mike Krzyzewski has won three national titles and has coached exactly 1,000 games at Duke, but in his 30 years in Durham, he has never offered a junior college player a scholarship–until apparently now.
Jared Eborn of the Deseret News in Salt Lake City and Mike Christensen of the Magic Valley Times News are each reporting [...]
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Roscoe Smith, ranked 31st in the 2010 recruitment class, has verbally committed to the University of Connecticut. Over the past couple weeks, Smith had been deciding between UConn, Georgetown and Duke.
The six-foot-seven small forward visited Duke in October and was seriously considering joining the Blue Devils’ 2010-2011 squad, but instead opted for Jim Calhoun’s Huskies.
“Me [...]
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As Duke Basketball Report pointed out earlier today, ESPN had quite a number of positive things to say about future Blue Devil Kyrie Irving in a recent piece by Joel Francisco. Irving, a Elizabeth, New Jersey native, is the No. 5 player in the Class of 2010 according to Scout.com and committed to Duke on [...]
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A number of sources are reporting today that former Maryland commit Terrence Ross has reopened his recruitment and will consider joining the Blue Devils among other schools. Ross, the No. 43 ranked recruit in the Class of 2010 according to Rivals.com, originally committed to Maryland last spring—and still might play there—but has since decided to [...]
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Duke basketball isn’t the only campus program to recently suffer a big recruiting loss.
Four-star linebacker Aramide Olaniyan, who initially made a verbal commitment to play for Duke in March but re-opened his recruiting in late September, has decided to commit to UCLA according to the Los Angeles Times and Scout.com. The 6-foot-2, 200 lb. Olaniyan [...]
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Quincy Miller, a 6-foot-9 power forward from Winston-Salem rated by ESPN as the 8th-best player in the class of 2011, will apparently be in attendance at the Blue Devils’ game against Coastal Carolina Monday night.
Via Miller’s Twitter machine:
Just got off the phone with coach K..headed to Duke tomorrow for the game
Per scout.com, Miller, a junior [...]
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Point guard Kyrie Irving, the No. 5 recruit in the country who committed to Duke Oct. 22, apparently has many talents. The high school senior starred in St. Patrick production of Disney’s High School Musical, and he’s not shy about taking the microphone or being pictures singing with the chorus in his basketball jersey.
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