Last season, three five-star Duke basketball targets were in attendance for Countdown to Craziness. From the three, Vernon Carey Jr. now headlines the freshman class in Durham while Jalen Johnson serves as the Blue Devils’ top 2020 prize thus far.
True, the third who was there, B.J. Boston, is now a Kentucky commit. But two out of three is not too shabby.
On Tuesday, O’Dea High School (Seattle) power forward Paolo Banchero became the first Duke target this year to sign up to be inside Cameron Indoor Stadium among the Cameron Crazies for the introduction of the 2019-20 Blue Devils (this annual celebration of all things Duke basketball takes place on Friday, Oct.