Some basketball programs are just iconic: Duke, UNC, Kansas, Kentucky, UCLA, Indiana, and Georgetown and Villanova too.
We hadn’t thought about in precisely these terms, but Duke, UNC and Louisville, all ACC schools obviously, are all three replacing iconic coaches in a two-year span. And all three are doing so with former players. In Louisville’s case, Kenny Payne played for Denny Crum over 30 years ago, but the impulse is similar: reach back to keep a good thing going forward.
This piece from the Louisville Courier-Journal, linked above, suggests that it’s not going to be easy and quotes Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim as saying “everyone loves Jon Scheyer now.