The SMU game is the first game Scheyer, who is in his third season as Duke’s head coach, missed since taking over the program following Mike Krzyzewski’s retirement in 2022. He never missed a game during his Duke playing career from 2006-10, when he appeared in 144 games.

Duke coach Jon Scheyer didn’t travel with the team to Dallas due to illness. Associate head coach Chris Carrawell took Scheyer’s spot on the bench as acting head coach at Moody Coliseum.

Scheyer also said it was valuable watching his team, ranked No. 4 in last week’s AP Top 25, beat SMU 89-62 from a different perspective.

The holiday season is anything but time off for the area’s top high school basketball teams. Such squads, particularly those with national reputations, traveled to locales as far as Hawaii, as well as up and down the East Coast,

The New York State Sportswriters Association released its latest boys basketball rankings of the 2024-25 season on Tuesday. A new Section III team joined the top 10 of its respective class to give the CNY section seven teams in the top 10 this week.

For the third straight week, Duke basketball is the only ACC representative in the AP Top 25 Poll. That said, Cooper Flagg & Co.'s next opponent, Blue Devil alum Jeff Capel's Pitt