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With the recent development that Duke legendary head coach Mike Krzyzewski will retire after the 2021-22 campaign, we’re taking a look at former Syracuse basketball prospects who ultimately opted for the Blue Devils in recent years.
We relied on information from the 247Sports Web site for this column. According to 247Sports, the high-school prospects whom we will discuss had scholarship offers from the Orange, but they chose Duke instead.
Now, not all of these players necessarily had the ‘Cuse among their shortlists of finalists, but it’s still an interesting exercise to examine which guys decided to play for Coach K over Syracuse basketball head coach Jim Boeheim and other high-major squads.