Surely, despite a few rising-senior post players appearing close to joining Jalen Johnson and Jeremy Roach as Duke basketball commits, coach Mike Krzyzewski and his staff would have made room in their 2020 class for O’Dea High School (Seattle) power forward Paolo Banchero.
But on Tuesday, the 6-foot-9, 235-pounder put an end to Duke’s potential overcrowding issue by putting an end to his thoughts about whether to reclass. Per a tweet from Stockrisers’ Jake Weingarten, Banchero has decided — 100 percent — to stay put in 2021 (he ranks No.