Jon Scheyer is going to have to show his coaching chops in order to get Duke out of a loaded East Regional.
The Selection Committee dropped Hall-of-Fame-level coaches as landmines in Duke’s path to the Final Four, almost as if to say: hey, if you’re historically good enough as the numbers seem to suggest, this shouldn’t be a problem.
While either Dan Hurley and UConn or Tom Izzo and Michigan State await in the Elite Eight, Scheyer will have to lead his Blue Devils past Rick Pitino and St. John’s on Friday to even get there…