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Youth Is Not Always Wasted On The Young

When Duke performed its sedate coaching shuffle this past spring, much was made of Jon Scheyer’s youth when he would replace Mike Krzyzewski at the end of the 2021-22 season.

Scheyer, born on August 24, 1987 — the summer before Krzyzewski’s teams went on a 5-year run of Final Four visits — will be 34 when he takes command of the Blue Devil bench in November 2022. That would make him the seventh-youngest head men’s basketball coach in ACC history, seven weeks the junior of Bobby Cremins, who took over at Georgia Tech in 1981.

Cremins inherited a wreck, and it wasn’t ramblin’.