Duke Recruiting: Lively Joins The Brotherhood!
Not that it wasn’t already lively
Dereck Lively has picked Duke as the next stop in his basketball career.
Lively, a 7-1 center with high athleticism and the ability to shoot from the three point line in, joins a crazy good class that Jon Scheyer is putting together for his first year at the helm.
He joins 6-10 Kyle Filipowski (a great answer to a future trivia question: who was Scheyer’s first recruit?), 6-6 Dariq Whitehead, and 6-5 Jaden Schutt.
The first two are or will be 5-stars and Schutt, at a minimum, is a four-star.
Scheyer will almost certainly have no worse than the second-best class and may have the best overall, depending on how things break.
It’s a pretty stunning start to his turn as Duke’s head coach. We didn’t think he’d struggle to recruit but we didn’t expect this.
- Five-star center, No. 2 prospect in the nation Dereck Lively II picks Duke over Kentucky, UNC
- Dereck Lively commits to Duke
- 2022 No. 2 overall recruit Dereck Lively commits to Duke men’s basketball
- With Dereck Lively II, Duke basketball stakes claim to nation’s No. 1 recruiting class
- Star recruit Dereck Lively II picks Duke over Kentucky. What’s next for the Wildcats?