There were major expectations on the shoulders of Dame Sarr beginning his first season with the Duke basketball program but he was always going to be a work in progress.
Despite Sarr’s experience playing professionally overseas with Barcelona, there is an adjustment every player must go through when getting on the court in a college basketball setting.
For the Blue Devil freshman, it was apparent during the first two games of the season in which he scored a total of 10 points and missed all four of his shot attempts against Western Carolina.
Things started to click for him, however, in Duke’s 114-59 victory over Army on Tuesday night when he scored a team-high 19 points on 6-of-8 shooting, including 3-of-5 from 3-point range.