Did Jon Scheyer play at Duke? Blue Devils coach was a 4-year guard under Mike Krzyzewski

Though he became synonymous with its men's basketball program and, to a lesser extent, the school itself, Mike Krzyzewski was not a product of Duke.

Born and raised in Chicago, Krzyzewski attended Army, where he played for legendary coach Bob Knight. After one season working under Knight as an assistant at Indiana, he returned to his alma mater as its head coach, where he remained for five seasons before taking over in 1980 at Duke, where he would remain for the rest of his career.

While Krzyzewski wasn’t a Blue Devil until he was employed by them, the same can’t be said of his successor.

After Krzyzewski’s retirement following the 2021-22 season, Jon Scheyer was handed the immense and perhaps unenviable task of replacing the legendary coach, who won 1,129 games and five national championships over his 42 seasons with the Blue Devils.

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For as daunting as the challenge is, Scheyer walked into the job with something that Krzyzewski didn’t 42 years earlier — intimate familiarity with the school and the program.

For nine seasons, from 2013-22, Scheyer was on the Duke staff in some capacity, spending the final four seasons of that run as the Blue Devils’ associate head coach under Krzyzewski.

Before Kryzewski was his boss, though, he was Scheyer’s coach.

Here’s everything you need to know about Jon Scheyer’s playing career at Duke:

Did Jon Scheyer play at Duke?

Indeed, Scheyer’s time at Duke predated even his earliest days as an assistant coach under Krzyzewski as he was a guard for the Blue Devils from 2006-10.

His playing career climaxed during his senior season in 2009-10, when he was a first-team all-ACC honoree and a consensus second-team All-American who helped lead Duke to the 2010 national championship. Scheyer had 15 points, six rebounds and a team-high five assists in the Blue Devils’ 61-59 victory against Butler in the national title game.

By the end of his Duke career, Scheyer, who was a two-time captain, was the only player in program history to record at least 2,000 points, 500 rebounds, 400 assists, 250 three-point field goals and 200 steals. His 2,077 career points rank him 10^th on the program’s all-time scoring list. He’s also third in career free throws made, fourth in free-throw percentage and fourth in 3-pointers made.

Scheyer was a consistent and durable presence for the Blue Devils over his four seasons. He played in 144 consecutive games in college, tied for the second-longest streak in program history, and his 4,459 minutes played are the fourth-most in ACC history. His 1,470 minutes played as a senior remain an ACC single-season record.

Most of all, Scheyer helped his teams win. Duke went 115-29 over the course of his career, capped off by a 35-5 mark in 2009-10.

After finishing his Duke career and graduating with a degree in history in 2010, Scheyer played professionally with the Rio Grande Vipers in what was then known as the NBA D League before heading overseas to play with Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel and Gran Canaria in Spain.

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Jon Scheyer stats

Scheyer was an immediate contributor at Duke, where he averaged 12.2 points per game as a freshman while starting 32 of the team’s 33 games.

In his final season in Durham, he averaged 18.2 points, 4.9 assists, 3.6 rebounds and 1.6 steals per game.

Here’s a look at Scheyer’s stats over his time at Duke:

Jon Scheyer high school

Before arriving at Duke in 2006, Scheyer was a highly touted high school prospect who, like Krzyzewski, came from the Chicago area.

A two-time Gatorade Illinois player of the year at Glenbrook North High School, Scheyer was a four-star recruit and the No. 36 prospect in the 2006 class, according to 247Sports’ Composite Rankings.

Though Scheyer recalled once disliking the Blue Devils because of their massive popularity and nationwide following, he committed to Duke as part of a top-five class that also included Gerald Henderson, Lance Thomas and Brian Zoubek. Thomas and Zoubek were starters alongside Scheyer on the 2010 championship team.

This article originally appeared on The Fayetteville Observer: Did Jon Scheyer play at Duke? Blue Devils coach was a Coach K guard