Duke basketball assistant coach remaining in Durham for another season

A Duke basketball associate head coach is remaining in Durham for at least one more season.  

It appears as if there will be no more departures from the Duke basketball coaching staff as associate head coach Jon Scheyer did not receive any head coaching vacancies.

Scheyer’s fellow associate head coach, Nate James, was named as the Austin Peay head coach, but the biggest threat at taking the 33-year-old Scheyer from Durham was the DePaul Blue Demons.

DePaul is located approximately 30 miles outside of Scheyer’s hometown of Northbrook, Illinois, but the program opted to hire Oregon assistant head coach Tony Stubblefield.

However, the Loyola Chicago head coaching job also opened as head coach Porter Moser is heading to Oklahoma to be the next head coach the Sooners after an incredible tenure with the Ramblers.

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Loyola opted to keep the job in-house, though, and hire Drew Valentine, an assistant under Moser with the Ramblers, instead of opening up a national search that could have seen Jon Scheyer go back to his home state.

Scheyer had reportedly interviewed for the DePaul vacancy, but its top finalists were not made public.

Duke basketball still has questions to answer about coaching staff

With Nate James no longer in the fold, a spot opens on the bench next to Mike Krzyzewski, and the overwhelming favorite is that Director of Basketball Operations and Player Development Nolan Smith will be elevated to an assistant coaching role.

However, will the Hall of Famer fill the associate head coaching spot on his staff with either Chris Carrawell or recently fired Marquette head coach Steve Wojciechowski?

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Wojciechowski hired Carrawell on his coaching staff with the Golden Eagles before Carrawell replaced Jeff Capel on the Duke staff in 2018 after Capel took the head coaching job at Pittsburgh.

Duke is coming off its second straight season in which the Blue Devils did not see NCAA Tournament action as its 2020-21 campaign was ended in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals because of positive COVID-19 tests within the program.