Duke basketball: 2 recruiting races nearing ‘done deal’ status?

A pair of 2022 talents now look like the Duke basketball program’s to lose.

The Duke basketball staff has no 2022 pledges to date but still has offers on the table to all seven of its targets in the class.

They all rank among the top 200 overall on the 247Sports 2022 Composite:

• Yorkville Christian (Ill.) three-star shooting guard Jaden Schutt at No. 169
• Coppell (Texas) four-star combo guard Anthony Black at No. 40
• La Lumiere (Ind.) four-star point guard JJ Starling at No. 38
• Wilbraham & Monson (Mass.) four-star power forward Kyle Filipowski at No. 33
• Sunrise Christian (Kan.) five-star small forward Mark Mitchell at No. 12
• Westtown (Pa.) five-star center Dereck Lively at No. 7
• Montverde (Fla.) five-star small forward Dariq Whitehead at No. 6

Of those seven, two clearly stand out as probable Blue Devils in the eyes of experts. So let’s take a brief look at each one…