Replacing Legends on the College Basketball Court

Coaches for the Rutgers women and the Duke and Villanova men are following up on long runs from their Hall of Fame predecessors.

Coquese Washington, left, coaches Rutgers women’s basketball. Jon Scheyer, center, coaches the Duke men. Kyle Neptune, right, coaches the Villanova men.Credit...Andrew Mills/NJ Advance Media, via AP; Ben Mckeown/AP; Matt Rourke/APCaleb Daniels was out to dinner with his family on a Wednesday night last spring when he received a text message from Joey Flannery, the director of basketball operations for the Villanova men’s program.

It was sent to the entire team, instructing the players to come to a mandatory team meeting in the film room at 8 p.m. that April 20 night.

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