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    • Breaking News, Duke

    Duke announced Wednesday that freshman Jayson Tatum suffered a left foot sprain during its Pro Day on Tuesday.

    The anticipated recovery time for this injury is two weeks. Tatum will not play in Duke’s exhibition games against Virginia State on Oct. 28 and Augustana on Nov. 4.

    “This is the best possible news,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “It is a manageable injury that will not impact Jayson long-term. We look forward to having him back very soon.”

    Duke opens the regular season when it hosts Marist on Nov. 11 as part of the Hall of Fame Tip-Off.

    Duke is already without star forward Harry Giles after he recently underwent a third knee surgery. Giles is expected to miss the Blue Devils’ season-opener Nov 11 against Marist and their game against Kansas Nov. 15 in the Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden.

    Duke, Recruiting

    Duke hosted a trio of bigtime Class of 2017 targets on Saturday night for “Countdown to Craziness” in point guard Matt Coleman, shooting guard Gary Trent Jr. and big man Wendell Carter Jr. All three went and sat with the Cameron Crazies at one point.

    The 6-foot-5 Trent Jr., out of Prolific Prep (CA), and the 6-10 Carter Jr., out of Pace Academy (GA), have long talked about a possible package deal.

    “A package deal is still the plan,” Carter Jr. told ZAGSBLOG this summer at the Adidas Nations event here, reiterating comments Trent Jr. made earlier this month at Peach Jam.

    Duke, Recruiting

    Matt Coleman, the 6-foot-1, 174-pound point guard from Oak Hill (VA) Academy, met this week with Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and is focusing on four schools.

    Coleman has taken officials to Duke (Sept. 16) and Stanford (Sept. 30) and will next hit Texas the weekend of Oct. 28. His visit to Kansas for this coming weekend was postponed by a scrimmage, and he has no plans to make it up.

    “It’s Stanford, Duke, Texas and Kansas,” Coleman said Thursday by phone of the schools on his list. “I will not be taking the Kansas visit this weekend. Time didn’t permit me to. I didn’t reschedule it yet.”

    Coach K met with Coleman on Tuesday to show his level of interest.

    Duke

    Duke is the favorite to win the NCAA championship and junior guard Grayson Allen is favored to win AP National Player of the Year honors, according to Bovada.lv.

    Led by Allen and a crew of stud freshmen including Jayson Tatum, Harry Giles, Frank Jackson and Marques Bolden, Duke faces odds of 4/1 to win the national championship in Glendale, Az. Kentucky follows at 15/2 with Kansas and reigning NCAA champion Villanova at 10/1. Arizona, which also has several elite freshmen in Kobi Simmons and Rawle Alkins, is next at 14/1.

    Allen, who leads the AP odds at 6/1, opted to return to Duke for his junior season after he could have declared for the NBA Draft last year. He’s currently projected at No. 25 by DraftExpress.com.

    Duke, Kentucky

    Kentucky is expecting close to 90 NBA personnel for its pro days on Sunday and Monday, a school spokesman said.

    Freshmen Bam Adebayo (No. 10), De’Aaron Fox (12) and Malik Monk (18) are all projected one-and-done first-round picks in the latest DraftExpress.com mock for 2017.

    “All 90 scouts are there to certainly see the development of Monk, Bam and Fox since arriving on campus,” one NBA scout said.

    ESPNU will televise Kentucky’s practice on Sunday from 7-9 p.m.

    Duke

    Rick Pitino, who coached one of the greatest college basketball teams ever in the 1995-96 Kentucky Wildcats, says this year’s incarnation of the Duke Blue Devils could rival his historic club.

    That Kentucky club featured eight future NBA players and had Nazr Mohamed as its 13th man.

    “They’ve got a fifth-year guy (Amile Jefferson) who’s a terrific rebounder and basketball player and they’ve got great shooting, great coaching and a great system,” Pitino told Jon Rothstein on his Podcast. “They’ve got it all. They’re very deep and they’ve got two of the best in Jayson Tatum and Harry Giles — the one-and-two ranked high school players in the nation. They’re as good of a team as I’ve seen in the modern era.”

    Duke is the preseason No. 1 in most polls and is the Vegas pick to cut down the nets in April in Glendale, Arizona.

    Duke

    Duke freshman forward Harry Giles underwent a left knee arthroscopy on Monday and is expected to be out six weeks, the team announced.

    “We’re very pleased with the outcome of today’s procedure,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in a statement. “This is the right step for Harry at the moment as it will help him be 100 percent going forward. Harry has done a tremendous job in rehabilitation over the last year and I’m sure he’ll continue to do the same after this procedure.”

    The 6-foot-11 Giles is part of Duke’s heralded freshmen class that also includes fellow forwards Jayson Tatum and Marques Bolden.

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