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Duke loads up for another title push by adding Brandon Ingram
For a team that must replace 71.4 percent of its points, 58.6 percent of its rebounds and 76.7 percent of its assists, reigning national champion Duke will enter next season in remarkably good shape.
The Blue Devils have assembled a formidable recruiting class capable of filling many of the holes created by the departures of freshman stars Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones and Justise Winslow.
The latest addition came Monday when 6-foot-8 wing Brandon Ingram chose Duke over in-state rivals North Carolina and North Carolina State and national powers Kentucky, Kansas and UCLA. Ingram, Rivals.com's No. 4 prospect in the class of 2015, is the fourth Top 25 prospect the Blue Devils have landed as part of this year's recruiting haul.
Derryck Thornton solved Duke's point guard issues and became the heir apparent to Jones when he chose the Blue Devils last week and agreed to reclassify from the high school junior class to the senior class. Previously, Duke had signed elite big man Chase Jeter and sweet-shooting wing Luke Kennard.
Whereas the addition of Thornton addressed Duke's greatest weakness, the arrival of Ingram will add to the Blue Devils' greatest strength. Ingram joins a stable of wings that includes returning starter Matt Jones, title game hero Grayson Allen and fellow incoming freshman Kennard.
The solution could be using Ingram at both forward spots the same way Duke used Winslow during the latter half of this past season. Ingram can create mismatches like Winslow even if he's taller and lankier but not as strong and defensive-minded as his predecessor.
If Thornton handles the transition to college basketball, Allen and Jones thrive with increased responsibility and the rest of the freshman class makes an immediate impact, Duke has a real chance to be the sport's first repeat champion since Florida in 2007. The Blue Devils will almost certainly start the new season in the top 10 in the polls and could even begin in the top 5.
When Duke won the national championship earlier this month, the Blue Devils relied most heavily on the nation's premier low-post scorer, a bruising, bullish wing and one of college basketball's steadiest pass-first point guards.
The Duke team that takes the floor next November will bear little resemblance to that one with one key exception: Both will be loaded with talented freshmen.
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Jeff Eisenberg is the editor of The Dagger on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at daggerblog@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!
