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Duke basketball: Jon Scheyer’s handpicked targets soaring in rankings

Duke basketball chief-in-waiting (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)

Duke basketball chief-in-waiting Jon Scheyer clearly has an eye for talent.

This week, 247Sports updated its 2022 rankings. Those changes, of course, significantly affected the composite rankings. And some of the biggest jumps suggest that Jon Scheyer, who is set to succeed Mike Krzyzewski as Duke basketball head coach after next season, has thus far extended offers to a worthy bunch in what is his first recruiting cycle as the primary decision-maker.

Indeed, in a couple of cases, the increases were quite dramatic.