Chris Carrawell first arrived in Durham as part of the same 1996 Duke basketball recruiting class that also featured Nate James. And the pair spent four years as teammates, although James redshirted his sophomore campaign, thereby ultimately staying a season longer than Carrawell to wind up as a key member of the 2000-01 Blue Devil national champion squad.
Plus, James, who is now in his second season as associate head coach at Howard and was previously head coach at Austin Peay, served as associate head coach at Duke when Carrawell was also one of Mike Krzyzewski’s assistants.
So, Carrawell, who has been on the Duke basketball staff since 2018 and is now in his fifth season serving as associate head coach under Jon Scheyer, knows well the game and frame that led to James averaging 12.3 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 1.6 steals for the 2000-01 champs and drawing 29 starting nods across the 39 outings he played for that 35-4 bunch…