Duke’s Biggest Recruiting Miss Ever?
The mind boggles
When you think of big misses in Duke’s recruiting history, a few names come to mind. Bill Bradley changed his mind late after committing to Vic Bubas’s program. Can you imagine him with Art Heyman and Jeff Mullins?
Early in Mike Krzyzewski’s tenure, he missed on Chris Mullin. He would have looked great in Duke Blue.
Later he missed on Chris Webber. If you added Webber to Christian Laettner, that team would have gone undefeated. And if you could have kept him for three years, Duke might have won three titles. Or not - Webber got Michigan in big trouble.
There are plenty of misses over the years, but one that we never thought of was Luka Doncic.
He almost certainly wasn’t going to college, but as it turns out, Coach K loved the way he played as a younger guy (now too, presumably).
How do we know?
Because Paolo Banchero tells us so.
We think that would have put him on the 2018 squad with Marvin Bagley, Wendell Carter, Grayson Allen and Gary Trent, among others. That would have been an amazing team!