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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/AP

Caleb 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.