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Duke Lands Five-Star Matthew Hurt, Moves to No. 1 in 2019 Class Rankings

What do you do when you lose two first-team AP All-Americas, one of which was Zion Williamson? If you're Mike Krzyzewski and Duke, you reload, of course. The Blue Devils continued to do just that on Friday, when five-star forward Matthew Hurt committed to add a second top-10 recruit to their 2019 recruiting class.

Hurt is ranked as the No. 8 recruit in his class on the 247Sports composite and joins No. 3 Vernon Carey, No. 22 Wendell Moore and No. 34 Boogie Ellis as high school players that are Durham-bound. Hurt's decision was not unexpected, as he had been considered a Duke lean, but the 6'9" big man from Rochester, Minn.