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Duke Basketball Leaks One Player's Plan for Next Season
Confirming key returning pieces. Duke basketball social media is hyping up the 2024-25 Blue Devils' backcourt.
Via a tease on Saturday for Monday morning's first offseason episode of The Brotherhood Podcast, the Duke basketball program revealed — rather quietly yet clear as day — that Caleb Foster will be a sophomore in the 2024-25 Blue Devils' backcourt alongside junior-to-be floor general Tyrese Proctor.
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Duke Basketball Roundup podcast host Jason Evans discovered and first reported the obvious clue. The Blue Devils' social media team left it in the form of the first sentence in the following show description for the sitdown reflection time and lookahead between Foster and Proctor (alongside the host of The Brotherhood Podcast in last season's second-year Duke graduate big man Ryan Young):
"Our first 2024 offseason episode is here, featuring next year's backcourt: Caleb Foster and Tyrese Proctor..."
News of Proctor's plan to return, first reported by national college hoops insider Adam Zagoria, broke on Thursday evening.
Proctor and Foster drew a combined 40 starting nods for the 2023-24 Blue Devils, often with one replacing the other in the three-guard lineups due to their injury woes.
Meanwhile, another member of last season's four-deep pool of starting backcourt talents, freshman Jared McCain, is not coming back, having already declared for the NBA Draft as a projected first-round pick.
As for the other, senior and second-year captain Jeremy Roach remains the lone question mark, outside of the potential for more outbound and inbound transfers. He has the option to play a fifth year due to the NCAA not counting the 2020-21 season, his rookie campaign, against anyone's eligibility.
But on that note, one could view the aforementioned show description for The Brotherhood Podcast, set to premiere at 6 a.m. ET Monday, as a sign that Roach doesn't plan to stick around for a graduate year and run it back with Caleb Foster and Tyrese Proctor.
Duke basketball's announced outbound transfers to date this offseason are Mark Mitchell, Jaylen Blakes, and Christian Reeves. Ryan Young has expired his eligibility. Kyle Filipowski joins Jared McCain as the two Blue Devils who have announced their early departure to the next level.
Not counting Jeremy Roach's decision, sophomore guard Jaden Schutt (redshirted in 2022-23) and freshman forwards Sean Stewart and TJ Power are now the only three players from Jon Scheyer's second squad as head coach who have not confirmed their returns, at least not publicly (no requirement to do so, although fans in this era ruled by the transfer portal are understandably always on the lookout for such things).
Whoever comes back will be teammates to the nation's No. 1 recruiting class, consisting of four-star wing Darren Harris and a handful of five-star prospects in forwards Cooper Flagg, Isaiah Evans, and Kon Knueppel, plus centers Khaman Maluach and Patrick Ngongba II.
Stay tuned to Blue Devil Country on SI for more Duke basketball news.
