Moments. His departure from Durham, after he had spent 15 years as a Duke assistant, raises a question: If things are so good at Duke, why is everyone leaving? Carrawell holds the second-best record against North Carolina of all the coaches, going 7-3, even beating them once in the ACC championship in 1999. After his time as a Coach K assistant, Bob Bender had two D-I head-coaching stints spanning a combined 14 seasons. The full list is below: Full list of former Duke players in attendance tonight. Odds & lines subject to change. The team stumbled to a 1318 record, the schools only losing season since 198283; it was also Dukes only non-NCAA-tournament season between 1983 and 2021. Gambling problem? If you can win in Evanston, Ill., you can win in a lot of places.Biggest con: Six years into his head-coaching career, Collins has only one postseason trip of any kind. . Steven Michael Wojciechowski (born August 11, 1976), also known as Wojo, is an American basketball coach and former player who was the head coach at Marquette University for seven seasons. He returned to Duke in 1999 as an intern in the Duke Management Company and was a basketball analyst on the Duke Radio Network. "It was . It was so good. His father was the late basketball coach Jeff Capel II, former assistant coach for the Charlotte Bobcats and former head coach at Old Dominion University, and his younger brother Jason played basketball at Duke's biggest rival, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was the head basketball coach at Appalachian State University. Since 2014, Duke has put together a Top-3 recruiting class each season. He was a Duke assistant for 22 games vs. UNC (11-11) and a player for eight (3-5).The 35-year-old Scheyer is among the youngest head coaches in Division-I men's basketball, and the youngest at a . Former NBA coach George Karl posted a 1,887-1,131 record over 25 professional seasons. 12 North Carolina, No. The Fairfield grad was tabbed the head coach of his alma mater in 1998 and was the MAAC coach of the year in 2004, winning 19 games with the Stags. RELATED: List of every Blue Devil currently in the NBA. As a head coach, he won a pair of NITs in eight years at Stanford, presiding over a series of mid-pack teams in the Pac-10/Pac-12.Biggest pro: Hes Duke royalty, right down to his jersey in the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium. That leaves Tommy Amaker's Harvard squad, at Virginia and at Boston College, which it's beaten six times in a row. He reached the NCAA Tournament in each of his first four seasons but resigned in 2006 after three consecutive tournament misses. Sandwiched between two separate stints at UNCG was a 10-year run at SMU. Conference regular season champion The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only. As college basketball has shifted from four-year players to one-and-dones, the philosophy of head coaches on the recruiting trail has changed to tailor their pitches to the new mentality of players. Coach K ties: Duke guard (1992-96), Duke assistant (2000-13)Career record: 101-96NCAA tournament record: 1-1Career highlights: The son of longtime NBA coach Doug Collins played on a Final Four team at Duke and spent nearly all of his post-playing career nestled in the Duke coaching tree, whether as an assistant at Seton Hall under Tommy Amaker or a decade-plus back in Durham. Wojciehowski insisted that he had never wavered in his belief that he would end up the head coach of a top program, despite repeatedly turning down jobs. Being an assistant coach at Duke is the best job in the country, Carrawell said. From there, Dement took assistant jobs at Cornell and East Carolina before becoming the Cornell head coach in 1986. After a seven-year stint back in Durham, Capel got his second high-major coaching job last year at Pitt.Biggest pro: The mans recruiting chops cannot be denied, and he had plenty of responsibility as Dukes associate head coach, including handling the team during Krzyzewskis health issues in recent years. Jon Scheyer felt a rush of excitement as he walked onto the practice court inside Cameron Indoor Stadium Monday afternoon. The coaching staff still goes into the homes of prospects and sells them on the college experience in Durham while helping them achieve their basketball goals. All advice, including picks and predictions, is based on individual commentators opinions and not that of Minute Media or its related brands. Coach K ties: Duke point guard (1989-93)Career record: 114-77NCAA tournament record: 0-2Career highlights: Best remembered as the starting point guard for two Duke national title teams (1991 and 1992), Hurley was the most outstanding player of the 1992 Final Four and a first-team all-American the following year. He succeeded Coach K as the head coach in 1980 but struggled in his two years, going 12-41 overall. Eli Boettger is a college basketball writer and founder of HeatCheckCBB.com. He later guided a Blake Griffin-led Oklahoma team to the Elite Eight. If that happens before Krzyzewski retires, Wojciechowski could well be the favorite to follow his college coach.Biggest con: No postseason success to speak of . * Through 2009-2010 Season. His ties to the Duke community are strong, serving as an assistant under Krzyzewski and Tommy Amaker and also helping sign Jon Scheyer to the Blue Devils. Signup for our weekly newsletter. Youve got to get out of North Carolina. Midway through Wojciechowskis freshman season, the Duke coach, Mike Krzyzewski, had to take a medical leave. Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer moving on from the Coach K era. He previously played and coached under head coach Mike Krzyzewski at Duke University. Schrage will join incoming head coach Jon Scheyer's staff for the 2022-23 season. In his senior year, Scheyer won a national championship as a team captain, coming in clutch with five of Dukes last 10 points in its final 61-59 win against Butler. He was elevated to a full-time assistant. Phone. RELATED: List of Duke's all-time McDonald's All-Americans. As a head coach, youve got to fight that. Smith scored 22 points in the second half, leading the charge in the statement win. 0:05. Duke. Cancel at any time. 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The season isnt over obviously but as of now, Breys career record at Notre Dame is 481-237 and his career record, counting a stellar run at Delaware, is 580-319. Wojo was shrewd in his choice of jobs to pursue. Wojciechowski is a 1994 graduate of the Cardinal Gibbons School in Baltimore, Maryland, where he played under Baltimore Catholic League head coach Ray Mullis. Its really safe, Brey said, and you can get into a comfort zone. AZ, CO, CT, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, (select parishes), MD, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, VA, WV, WY, CA-ONT only.Eligibility restrictions apply. He will turn 68 next month, and for the better part of the last 20 years, many have wondered who will assume his role when he retires. Below is the list of former Krzyzewski assistants who became first-time head coaches after their stints under Coach K. Mike Brey has the strongest track record of any former Krzyzewski assistant. 14 overall on the 247Sports 2024 Composite, five-star Jarin Stevenson is the highest-ranked recruit in North Carolina since former Duke basketball one-and-done Harry Giles in 2016. Mike Krzyzewski, shown in middle in 2004 with Duke assistants, from right, Chris Collins, Steve Wojciechowski and Johnny Dawkins, all of whom are now college head coaches. The Crimson had been to one NCAA tournament, in 1946, before Amakers arrival; they went to four in a row from 2012 to 2015, advancing to the round of 32 twice.Biggest pro: He has been a head coach for more than 20 years, so hes experienced much more than many of the other potential candidates. In his eight seasons leading the Jazz, Quin Snyder coached only three former Blue Devils: Elliot Williams (five games in 2014-15), Rodney Hood (2014-18), and Grayson Allen (his 2018-19 rookie campaign). Despite holding a 3-5 record against North Carolina as a player, Scheyer individually performed very well on Dukes brightest stage, averaging 19.4 points, 3.6 assists and 3.8 rebounds in his eight games against the Tar Heels, including a game in his junior season in which he scored 24 points on a blistering 100% from both the field and the 3-point arc. Utah Jazz coach | Age: 52 In early June, Quin Snyder stepped down as Utah Jazz head coach. He elevated Northwestern from irrelevant to competitive, but the Wildcats have backslid the past two years.Biggest pro: He got Northwestern to the NCAA tournament in 2017, something the Wildcats had never accomplished before. Smith. Men's Basketball [1] The team is currently coached by Jon Scheyer . Following 10 years in the position, Stanford hired Dawkins in 2008 as head coach. The Fighting Irish play every ACC member at least once in 2015, as is now the custom, with Boston College, Clemson, Duke and Georgia Tech sharing home-and-home meetings. Arizona State coach | Age: 47 Life in Durham, N.C., is so nice and cozy for the teams assistant coaches top talent, sustained national relevance and consistent job offers that it is hard to find a reason to leave. Coach K ties: Duke point guard (1994-98), Duke assistant (1999-2014)Career record: 97-68NCAA tournament record: 0-1Career highlight: Remembered for his floor-slapping and lockdown defense during his playing days as a Blue Devil, he spent a decade and a half on Krzyzewskis staff in Durham. Tatum averaged 16.8 points, 7.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.3 steals, and 1.1 blocks per game on 45.2-percent shooting from the field and 34.2-percent from three-point range as he was also named to the All-ACC Team. Finally head coaching newcomer Steve Wojciechowski matches up with Georgia Tech at the Old Spice Classic in Orlando, Fla. DEVILISH DOINGS Head Coaches with Duke Ties Facing ACC Teams. The Brotherhood runs strong through Duke mens basketball, and nowhere is that more clear than in its coaching staff. But as he reached his late 30s, Collins began to see jobs filled every off-season. And this game is going to be very different from other Duke and UNC games. Never done: How Coach K mastered the one-and-done era. "Each game youve got to play it like it's a championship game.". Wojciechowski and Carrawell left for Milwaukee last summer, becoming the latest Blue Devils to leave the nest and create another branch of Krzyzewskis coaching tree. As Breys successor, Henderson won 20 games his first season but slowed down from there, going 9-21 in his final season in 2006. 2023 Duke Athletics. March 1, 2023 at 4:10 p.m. Fred Shabel, who coached the UConn men's basketball team to pioneering victories in 1964, died Sunday at his winter home in Clearwater Beach, Fla. Ends Saturday - A Chance To Help A Good Cause - And Possibly Win A Scheyer-Signed Basketball. After eight years with Duke, Brey accept his first job as head coach with Delaware, taking the Blue Hens to the NCAA Tournament in 1998 and 1999. * May instead face Miami of Ohio in tournament. Mike Brey, who worked for Krzyzewski from the 1988 to 1995 seasons, is of course the head coach at Notre Dame. Harvard coach | Age: 53 Duke is preparing for the 74-year-old Krzyzewski's final season as head coach. Photos. North Carolina had won six of the last seven in the series and had won two national championships since Dukes last Final Four appearance, but that win flipped the script, and the Blue Devils got the last laugh, winning their next meeting in Cameron and that years championship. During that senior year, Wojciechowski was named NABC Defensive Player of the Year honors and was an honorable mention All-American. Jayson Tatum publicly committed to Duke on July 12, 2014, only a short few months after he surprisingly committed to the Blue Devils coaching staff in private. Stay tuned to Blue Devil Country for daily Duke basketball content. All betting content is intended for an audience ages 21+. Why Jon Scheyer will succeed at DukeCollege basketball coaching changes 21-22Subscribe for premium HeatCheckCBB.com premium content. Looks like the first domino is about to fall as former Duke assistant and . Its something only few other coaches and programs have been able to consistently deliver on in the new era of college basketball. Highly recruited out of high school, Wojciechowski signed to play with Duke. (Hurley's younger brother, Dan, is head coach at Rhode Island, absent from BC's schedule after years as an annual Eagles opponent.). Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewskiis one of the best recruiters in the country, and the Hall of Famer sometimes uses unorthodox methods to try and land a player in Durham. Mike Krzyzewski coaching tree has many branches, but no clear successor at Duke, Fight Club sandwiches dissolve the line between insanity and genius, Wizards show plenty of heart early but cant find an edge late in Chicago, Caps backslide in Buffalo, get blitzed by the young Sabres in a 7-4 loss. [3], On April 1, 2014, Wojciechowski was hired as the new Marquette head basketball coach, replacing Buzz Williams, who left for Virginia Tech. He is, all things considered, enjoying himself. Michael Jordan's college roommate, Buzz Peterson, has been a head coach at five different D-1 schools. The Duke basketball student section didn't invent every aspect of the modern college basketball fan experience, of course. Scheyer said after, though, You just need big plays, especially on the roadCoach said the whole game, 'Don't worry about missing shots. This included a losing record during his first season followed by 5 consecutive winning seasons. Coach K ties: Duke point guard (1983-87), Duke assistant (1988-97)Career record: 406-268 NCAA tournament record: 4-5 (one Sweet 16)Career highlights: He has spent time at a pair of high-level programs (Seton Hall and Michigan), but turning Harvard into an Ivy League power is his greatest accomplishment. With one former Duke basketball team captain moving to his first head coaching job, another is moving into a larger role on coach Mike Krzyzewski's staff. At No. April 25, 2022 For better or worse, the Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team has changed hands. Smith generally stepped up to the plate during the rivalry, but no more so than in his senior season. Once Brey started winning, Krzyzewski realized that his former assistant had landed in a good situation. At ACC and Southern Conference tournaments, a tale of two leagues, From 2018: One Crying Moment: 15 unforgettable NCAA tournament defeats, From 2016: Mason Madness: Inside the most unlikely run in NCAA tournament history. The 56-year-old, a 1985 McDonald's All-American from Seattle who was part of three Final Four Duke basketball teams while earning a double major in philosophy and political science, will now coach two former Blue Devils in the Hawks' regular rotation: recent one-and-done forwards Jalen Johnson and AJ Griffin. Hubert Davis led the Tar Heels to the 2022 NCAA East Region championship, a win over Duke in a historic Final Four matchup and a berth in the national championship game, all in his first season as a head coach. By Barry Jacobs Nov 3, 2014, 2:55am EST. But when jobs would come up and youd get mentioned you want people to know that as happy as you are with what youre doing, your aspiration is to be a head coach.. Duke became the first team in ACC history to win four games in four days en route to the ACC Tournament Championship. Coach K ties: Duke guard (1982-86), Duke assistant (1998-2008)Career record: 222-148NCAA tournament record: 2-1 (one Sweet 16)Career highlights: No one will question Dawkinss Duke bona fides. Every man behind the Blue Devil bench was also once a Blue Devil himself. 2023 Duke Athletics. The Duke coach has talent capable of collecting his sixth national championship, and he seems to have little interest in slowing down anytime soon. Hes the youngest of the former Coach K assistants now running his own program and appears to have Marquette on the verge of reclaiming its status as a national power. In 1995, Gaudet stepped in when Krzyzewski took a leave of absence due to a back injury. Carrawell was named an All-American and the ACC Player of the Year with 16.9 points and 6.1 rebounds per game that season. For Former Assistants at Duke, Moving Up Means Moving Out Marquette Coach Steve Wojciechowski, front, and the assistant Chris Carrawell, top rear left, this month. Elzy has hired former Duke and Texas head coach Gail Goestenkors as one of her three assistant coaches, the school announced Monday. Snyder served as head coach of the Utah Jazz from the 2014-15 to 2021-22 seasons, accumulating a 372-264 record (.585) and leading the Jazz to the playoffs in six of his eight seasons. His staff reeled in eventual All-American Markus Howard but reached two tournaments in seven years and failed to win a game in either trip. Overall, Wojo appeared in 128 games for Duke, starting 88. He used Delaware as a springboard to land the Notre Dame job in 2000. But the success rate of Mike Krzyzewski and the Blue Devils has not changed. Utah's 294-178 mark across his final six seasons marked the West's highest winning percentage in that stretch. He was a point guard from 1994 to 1998. The St. Louis, Missouri native was one of the headliners in the top-ranked recruiting class that also included Harry Giles, Frank Jackson, Marques Bolden, Javin DeLaurier, and Jack White. Former Duke men's basketball captain Amile Jefferson joined the staff at his alma mater in July 2021. But even after my fifth, sixth, seventh year there, I thought, Man, maybe Ive stayed here too long.. Kitchens began his coaching career in the college ranks, working as the running backs and tight ends coach at Glenville State (W.Va.) in 1999, before joining LSU as a graduate assistant in 2000 . To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Richardson will have a one-year contract with a base salary of $275,000 in 2021-'22. Almost nine months later, the former four-year Duke basketball guard (1985-89) and assistant (1995-99) under now-retired Hall of Famer Mike Krzyzewski is set to return to the NBA as the 15th head coach in Atlanta Hawks history. Looks like the first domino is about to fall as former Duke assistant and current Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey has decided to retire, according to the South Bend Tribune, hes going to tell his team today. The following is a list of Duke Blue Devils men's basketball head coaches. Former Duke Players as Professional Basketball Coaches In Dukes three games against the Tar Heels in 2011, Smith averaged a dominant 28 points and 5.3 assists. 9 East Carolina treks to Durham for a Tuesday afternoon appointment with Duke.The game will stream live via ACC Network Extra. Conference tournament champion. Goestenkors fills the spot of Daniel Boice, who served. Terms at draftkings.com/sportsbook. For more information, please read our Legal Disclaimer. Quin Snyder,still the only former Duke basketball player to become an NBA head coach,now inherits an Atlanta Hawks squad sitting at No. He took Seton Hall dancing in 2000, went to Michigan in 2001 and failed to punch a tournament bid in six seasons and has been at Harvard since 2008. He is ranked eighth at Duke for career steals (203) and eighth for career assists (505). facebook Other coaches at their alma maters include Patrick. View all posts by Eli Boettger, College basketball coaching changes 21-22, Subscribe for premium HeatCheckCBB.com premium content, Duke Basketball: Who is Jon Scheyer? Division regular season and conference tournament champion [1] He also achieved the second highest number of steals in a single season with 82 in 1997. I remember my first game, which was a career maker for me, he recalled humorously. Bender led Illinois State to the Big Dance in his first season in 1990 and three years later was at the helm of Washington. Coach K ties: Duke guard (1985-89), Duke assistant (1993-99)Career record: 126-91 in college; 217-180 in the NBANCAA tournament record: 5-4 (one Elite Eight)Career highlights: He owns arguably the most diverse rsum of any of Coach Ks former assistants. The 12 coaches who took head jobs after assisting Coach K are a combined 2,367-2,028 (.539) overall. Shabel was a Duke assistant when he was hired by UConn following the death of longtime coach Hugh . When Wojciechowskis team lapsed on defense, he pounded the floor with both hands, the way he had done as a player. Postseason invitational champion By the time Scheyer returned to the Duke staff and was elevated to a full-time assistant coach, the Blue Devils sported a roster that included Jahlil Okafor, Justise Winslow, Grayson Allen and . Since Jon Scheyer was officially named as the next head coach of the Duke basketball program, he has not been denied very often if at all. 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