Duke tabs Jeremy Roach as team captain for 2022-23 season
The Duke Blue Devils have a new coach, obviously, in Jon Scheyer, as well as a new team captain for the upcoming 2022-23 season. According to a tweet from the Duke Basketball account, junior point guard Jeremy Roach is the team captain.
Here was that tweet along with several shots of Roach throughout his time with the Blue Devils.
A worthy choice, considering Roach’s experience within the program. In fact, he’s the only scholarship player on the entire team that will be in his third season in Durham when the season tips off. Most of Duke’s roster is newcomers as it is. With Scheyer welcoming a monster recruiting class that features three of the top five players in the 2022 class, per the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average of the top recruits in each class.
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In addition to those three, Duke added another three freshmen (who weren’t quite as highly ranked as the top triumvirate) as well as several transfers, the most consequential being sixth year super-senior Jacob Grandison, a tough gunner at wing who spent two seasons at Holy Cross, three at Illinois and now one at Duke. Perhaps he’ll shoulder some leadership responsibilities as well.
But again, he’s a first-year player at Duke, a place far different from Holy Cross or Illinois. Scheyer likely tabbed Roach because he’s experienced, but experienced in the Duke world. He put up with the Coach K farewell tour distractions last season and wound up starting at point guard for a team that made the Final Four.
Jeremy Roach has seen it all at the college basketball level. Failed seasons, Final Four runs, coaching changes, all of it. And he’s the point guard on a starting lineup that will feature four new names alongside him. He was a no-brainer as captain.