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Duke’s Vernon Carey Is Impressive

Certainly Duke has had players who could score and assist. Jason Williams averaged 21.6 ppg and 6.1 assists per game in 2001 for a team that won a national title. Bobby Hurley averaged 17 points and eight assists as a senior.

Of course Williams and Hurley have their jerseys hanging in the Cameron rafters. I’m not sure there’s anyone in today’s college-basketball universe as good as Jason Williams was in 2001.

Perhaps a better analog is 2004 Chris Duhon, like Tre Jones an elite defender and distributor. Duhon averaged a modest 10.0 ppg that season but added 6.