For most college basketball programs, landing a recruit of Cooper Flagg’s caliber would be monumental and a once-in-a-blue-moon occurrence, and rightfully so. Flagg left Duke as one of the best one-and-done players in the history of the sport and was selected with the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA Draft by the Dallas Mavericks earlier this summer.
Duke, however, isn’t a regular program. The Blue Devils have a player on the roster in five-star forward Cameron Boozer, who has emerged as one of the top contenders to be selected No. 1 overall in the 2026 NBA Draft. Boozer is considered one of the top contenders to go No. 1 alongside Kansas’ Darryn Peterson and BYU’s AJ Dybantsa.
Boozer, alongside his brother Cayden Boozer, headlines another star-studded recruiting class entering the program that finished No. 1 overall in the 2025 recruiting cycle by 247Sports. The Boozer brothers and returning players Caleb Foster, Isaiah Evans, and Patrick Ngongba will make Duke one of the top title contenders heading into the 2025-26 campaign.
Duke finished two games short of a national title with one of the best freshmen to ever hit the scene in college basketball. What do Jon Scheyer and the Blue Devils do for an encore? The Athletic’s Brendan Marks joins Matt Norlander to recap the disastrous ending to last season AND preview what Cameron Boozer looks to do this season.
With college basketball’s player movement all but done, it’s time to start breaking down the rosters of the sport’s top programs. For this installment, we’re taking a look at Duke and trying to decipher what its lineup could look like when the season begins.
Projected starting lineup
1. Caleb Foster | 6-5 | 205 | Jr.
The former highly touted recruit from the 2023 recruiting cycle is entering his third year with the program. After logging just over 25 minutes per game and recording 15 starts during his freshman season, Foster’s role shrank….
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