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Saturday, October 19
Durham, N.C.
1 p.m.
Duke University
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Lincoln (Pa.)
Photo by: Duke Athletics
Duke Hosts Reigning CIAA Champion Lincoln in Saturday Exhibition
10/18/2024 8:19:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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- Duke men's basketball continues its tradition of hosting HBCU conference champions in exhibition action, as the No. 7 Blue Devils welcome the Lincoln (Pa.) University Lions to Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 1 p.m., on ACC Network Extra.
- Chris Edwards and Debbie Taylor will call the action on ACC Network Extra. David Shumate and John Roth team up for the broadcast on the Blue Devil Sports Network.
- Lincoln University, the nation's first degree-granting HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities), was established as The Ashmun Institute in 1854 and renamed as Lincoln University in 1866.
- The reigning CIAA tournament champion, Lincoln returns 11 of 12 letterwinners, including the Lions' top six scorer's, from last season's conference championship squad, which finished with a 17-14 overall record.
- Lincoln's 11 returning letterwinners represent 90 percent of the team's scoring from a year ago. (2,014 of 2,230 points)
- Three Lions back on this season's roster averaged double digits in scoring, topped by 6-5 senior guard Bakir Cleveland (12.6) and followed by 6-1 senior guard Reggie Hudson (11.1) and 6-3 senior guard Freddie Young, Jr. (10.9).
- The 2024 CIAA Tournament title was Lincoln's first since being acknowledged as a champion in the official list of CIAA winners in 1915 with Howard and Hampton.
- Lincoln is under the direction of first-year head coach Julius Hodge, a 2005 graduate of North Carolina State University, where he was a two-time All-ACC selection and All-American, and the 2004 ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year. Hodge was a first-round pick by the Denver Nuggets (20th overall) in the 2005 NBA Draft. He spent the last three seasons as the assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
- Duke returns two starters from last season's Elite Eight squad, junior Tyrese Proctor and sophomore Caleb Foster, while also signing the nation's top-ranked recruiting class and also making four additions through the transfer portal.
- Duke's six-player freshman class includes five top-20 players in 247Sports' rankings, and consists of five-star prospects Cooper Flagg (6-9, G/F, Newport, Maine/Montverde Academy), Isaiah Evans (6-6, G/F, Fayetteville, N.C./North Mecklenburg HS), Kon Knueppel (6-7, G/F, Milwaukee, Wis./Wisconsin Lutheran HS), Patrick Ngongba II (6-11, C, Manassas, Va./Paul VI Catholic) and Khaman Maluach (7-2, C, South Sudan, Africa/NBA Academy Africa), and four-star recruit Darren Harris (6-6, G/F, Herndon, Va./Paul VI Catholic).
- In the transfer portal, Duke added four-star transfers Sion James (6-6, G, Sugar Hill, Ga./Lanier HS/Tulane), Maliq Brown (6-9, F, Culpeper, Va./Blue Ridge HS/Syracuse) and Mason Gillis (6-6, F, New Castle, Ind./New Castle HS/Purdue) along with Cameron Sheffield (6-6, G/F, Alpharetta, Ga./ Chattahoochee HS/Rice).
- Duke welcomes the No. 1 recruiting class of six freshmen, which includes two of the five youngest Division I men's basketball players with Cooper Flagg (12/21/2006) ranking second and Khaman Maluach (9/14/2006) fifth.
- The Blue Devils also boast veteran experience with non-freshmen combining for more than 500 games played (523), 300 starts (324), and 13,000 minutes (13,201), including Mason Gillis with 132 games played and Sion James with 107 starts (ranks among top-10 of current Div. I players).
- Duke has posted 27-9 records in each of Jon Scheyer's first two seasons as head coach.
- The Blue Devils won the ACC Tournament in 2023, and advanced to the Elite Eight in 2024.
- This is Scheyer's 12th season as a member of Duke's coaching staff, dating back to the 2013-14 season.
- In 2023-24, Duke was ranked inside the top-25 for the entirety of the season, concluding at No. 9 in the final Associated Press poll, an upgrade from the Blue Devils' No. 12 final ranking in 2022-23.
- Scheyer led the 2023-24 team to three victories over opponents ranked in the top-25, with wins over No. 18 Michigan State, No. 10 Baylor and No. 2 Houston, and advanced to the NCAA Tournament as a top-five seed for the second straight season.
- Among Duke head coaches in their first two seasons, Scheyer posted the most overall wins (54), most conference wins (29) and the most NCAA Tournament wins (4). Scheyer's overall win percentage (.750) through his first two seasons is the best since Eddie Cameron in 1928-30 (.750/30-10), and his conference win percentage (.725) is the best since Harold Bradley in 1950-52 (.743).
- Scheyer also became Duke's fastest head coach to reach the 50-win milestone, doing so in 65 games, bettering the standard set by Vic Bubas, who hit 50 wins in 69 contests from 1959-62.
- In addition, Scheyer is just the third men's basketball head coach in ACC history to lead his program to a conference tournament title and an NCAA Elite Eight appearance in his first two seasons, joining Bill Guthridge (North Carolina, 1998) and fellow Blue Devils coach, Vic Bubas (1960).
- Tyrese Proctor returns for his third season at Duke with 68 games played and 59 starts as a Blue Devil.
- Proctor averaged 10.5 points per game and finished with a team-best 118 assists during his second year in Durham.
- He ended his sophomore campaign ranked 25th nationally for assist-turnover ratio, at 2.95.
- Caleb Foster played 27 games with 15 starts as a freshman in 2023-24, before suffering a season-ending ankle injury at Wake Forest on Feb. 24, 2024.
- Foster started three straight games before the injury.
- He averaged 7.7 points, 2.4 rebounds and 2.1 assists per contest in 2023-24.
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