Duke adds 2023 Top-35 guard Jared McCain to No. 1-ranked recruiting class

By JACOB POLACHECK

Jared McCain, the No. 33-overall prospect in the class of 2023, has committed to Duke, he announced Friday.

The 6-foot-2, 175-pound shooting guard from Centennial (CA) High School, chose the Blue Devils over Gonzaga, Houston and Louisville, among others.

Duke, as well as Gonzaga, has been prominently featured on his “dream board”, a yellow piece of paper pinned to the wall containing a list of goals, since the eighth grade.

McCain took his official visit to Duke from Feb. 6-8, calling the trip “crazy” in an interview with ZAGSBLOG.

“They keep a lot of stuff from back in the day, but it’s also super modern, so that was unexpected,” McCain said. “I didn’t know what to expect going into either of these visits.”

McCain had the opportunity to meet Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski in his final season ahead of the Blue Devils’ Feb. 7 contest against Virginia.

“I didn’t know if we would get to talk to him,” McCain said. “He was super cool. He talked to my parents, talked to me a lot. It was just really nice to see that they care. Even though Coach K won’t be the coach, he said he’ll still be going to everything and watching everything. That was super cool. Just seeing the atmosphere there, that was insane. I knew it was going to be crazy with the Cameron Crazies and watching the game. Duke was insane.”

Ranked by 247Sports.com as the No. 7 shooting guard in the nation, McCain joins five-star guard Caleb Foster as the second commit in Duke’s 2023 recruiting class.

“Coach Scheyer is going to implement ball screens and pin downs with comparisons to guys like J.J. Redick and Seth Curry, coming off ball screens and coming off pin down screens for me,” McCain said. “That’s perfect and just what I like. I like to play with that freedom that Scheyer was emphasizing.”

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