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Basketball Coaching Search: Duke Assistant Jeff Capel to be Offered Georgia Tech Head Coach Job, Per Report

Only a little over 72 hours after the firing of former head coach Brian Gregory was announced on Friday, a leading candidate has surfaced in Georgia Tech's coaching search, per Zach Klein of WSB-TV.

NCAA sources tell me Duke assistant Jeff Capel as emerged as #GaTech #1 candidate to replace Brian Gregory https://t.co/VG6PyZ9kYw

— Zach Klein (@ZachKleinWSB) March 28, 2016

Capel's name is an interesting one, being a former head coach but an assistant to Duke's Mike Krzyzewski for the last several years after playing for him in college.