The Opening Tip
- Duke men’s basketball national champions Jon Scheyer and Bobby Hurley will meet on the hardwood as opposing head coaches when Duke hosts Arizona State in the Brotherhood Run charity exhibition game at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. Proceeds from the event will benefit Duke Children’s Hospital.
- John Schriffen and Cory Alexander will call the action on ACC Network. David Shumate and John Roth team up for the broadcast on the Blue Devil Sports Network.
- Hurley, a 2011 Duke Athletics Hall of Fame inductee whose number 11 jersey was retired by Duke on Feb. 28, 1993, broke the NCAA men’s basketball record for career assists with 1,076 and sparked the Blue Devils to a four-year record of 119-26 (.821) with three Final Four appearances and back-to-back national championships in 1991 and 1992. In addition to his record-breaking assists, the 1992 NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player and two-time All-America selection (1992, 1993) amassed career totals of 1,731 points, 306 rebounds and 202 steals from 1989-93.
- Duke and Arizona State have met on the hardwood just once, a 64-53 Blue Devils’ victory at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 25, 2009. Scheyer, in his senior season at Duke, recorded game highs of 16 points and six assists, while also grabbing four rebounds.
- Duke returns two starters from last season’s Elite Eight squad, junior Tyrese Proctor and sophomore Caleb Foster, while also signing the nation’s top-ranked recruiting class and also making four additions through the transfer portal.
- Duke welcomes the No. 1 recruiting class of six freshmen, which includes five five-star, top-20 players in 247Sports’ rankings.
- The Blue Devils also boast veteran experience with non-freshmen combining for more than 500 games played (523), 300 starts (324), and 13,000 minutes (13,201), including Mason Gillis with 132 games played and Sion James with 107 starts.
- Sunday’s matchup features three of the five youngest players in Division I men’s basketball. Arizona State’s Jayden Quaintance (7/11/2007) is the youngest, with Duke’s Cooper Flagg (12/21/2006) second and Khaman Maluach (9/14/2006) fifth.
About the Arizona State Sun Devils
- Arizona State University, located in Tempe, has an enrollment of 41,159 undergraduate students and 13,194 graduate students. The Sun Devils are members of the Big 12 Conference.
- Bobby Hurley enters his 10th season on the Sun Devils’ bench with 155 victories, ranking third among Arizona State head coaches. The former Duke guard has guided ASU to four 20-win campaigns and three trips to the NCAA tournament.
- Arizona State’s roster consists of five returners, seven transfers and four freshmen. The Sun Devils return just one of their top five scorer’s from last season’s 14-18 squad, as redshirt senior guard Adam Miller brings 12.0 points per game back to this year’s lineup.
- Among ASU’s group of freshmen are two newcomers that were ranked in the top 25 of the 2024 recruiting class, according to ESPN. Jayden Quaintance, listed as a 6-9 forward out of Word of God Christian Academy (Raleigh, N.C.), was ranked 17th overall, second at center (behind Duke’s Khaman Maluach) and third from North Carolina (behind Duke’s Isaiah Evans), while Joson Sanon, a 6-5 guard from Saxton Rivers, Vermont, was positioned No. 23 overall.
- Last season, Arizona State topped the Big 12 and ranked 24th nationally in turnover margin (+3.3), and finished second in the conference and 19th nationally in fast break points (14.3 per game).
