Jon Scheyer<\/a>\u00a0has built a re\u0301sume\u0301 that signals Duke’s championship window is wide open \u2014 and only a matter of time. The successor of Mike Krzyzewski, Scheyer officially took the helm in 2021 after nearly a decade on Krzyzewski\u2019s staff, having been a national champion as a player under Coach K before that.<\/p>\nJon Scheyer’s Duke basketball success in first four seasons<\/h2>\n
Duke’s Dec. 16 win over Lipscomb marked Scheyer’s 100th-career win, making him the fastest coach in the ACC to reach that mark. Following Duke’s Elite 8 exit, marking its second-straight 35-win season, Scheyer currently sits at 124 wins with 25 losses in his first four seasons at the helm. It marks the most wins by any Division I head coach during that period. His 25 wins over AP-ranked opponents through a four-year span are also the most in the nation.<\/p>\n
Scheyer capped the season named as the ACC Coach of the Year and the National Association of Basketball Coaches Division I Coach of the Year. He led Duke to a 35-3 mark, 17-1 in ACC play, with back-to-back conference regular season and tournament titles. He has led the Blue Devils to three ACC Tournament championships, three\u00a0Elite Eight appearances and a trip to the\u00a0Final Four.<\/p>\n
How long did it take Coach K, Dean Smith to cut down the nets?<\/h2>\n
While it took Tom Izzo five years into his head coaching career to win a national championship, it has often taken legendary coaches some time to win their first national title.<\/p>\n
Take Coach K, for instance, who waited 16 seasons before capturing his first national title at Duke in 1991. Also on Tobacco Road, Dean Smith went 21 years at North Carolina before winning in 1982, and Roy Williams spent 17 seasons at UNC before claiming his first championship in 2005.<\/p>\n
Also, Scheyer is only 38 and will be 39 heading into next season. He took over the program at 35-years-old.<\/p>\n
Scheyer’s recruiting hasn’t dropped off<\/h2>\n
Since taking over the helm, Scheyer has brought in three top-rated recruiting classes. The first also happened to be his official first recruiting class in 2022, highlighted by the nation’s top-two ranked recruits in Dereck Lively II and Dariq Whitehead. His 2023 class ranked as No. 2 nationally, but he has since brought in back-to-back No. 1 classes in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n
Scheyer’s 2026 class is trending in that direction, too, currently sitting at No. 1 per the 247Sports Composite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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