Much was made of Jon Scheyer’s youth when Duke announced two springs ago that he would replace Mike Krzyzewski at the end of the 2021-22 season.
Scheyer, born on August 24, 1987 — the summer before Krzyzewski’s teams launched a 5-year run of Final Four visits — will be 34 when he takes command of the Blue Devils in November. That would still only make him the seventh-youngest head men’s basketball coach in ACC history, seven weeks the junior of Bobby Cremins, who took over at Georgia Tech in 1981.
Cremins inherited a wreck, and it wasn’t ramblin’.