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It's been a pretty painful year for Duke basketball .
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Although the Blue Devils made it to the Final Four a year ago and the Elite Eight this year, both of those trips ended in disastrous fashion . Against Houston in the 2025 Final Four, Duke blew a 14-point lead in the final eight minutes, including a six-point advantage entering the last minute of the game. And then just a few days ago, the Blue Devils, who led by as many as 19, turned the ball over on what should have been a game-sealing possession and watched as UConn's Braylon Mullins made a game-winning, 35-foot 3-pointer with 0.3 seconds remaining.
The big-game collapses, though, are just the prelude to the successes that will come to Duke under Jon Scheyer , according to former Blue Devils star and current Chicago Bulls player Tre Jones .
"That was a tough one for sure," Jones said of the loss to UConn, via the Chicago Sun-Times' Joe Cowley. "Last year was tough, missing free throws and the turnover at the end of the game. But this year, up 19 . . . I was back at the hotel with my family, and it was definitely tough.
"I always back them. I think this is setting them up for something down the line, for sure. Scheyer has been to three straight Elite Eights now. Final Four last year. Moments away from a Final Four this year. So I think whatever is happening is just preparing them for the future, for sure."
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Both Tre Jones and his older brother, Tyus Jones, played for Duke; Tre played for the Blue Devils from 2018 to 2020, while Tyus spent the 2014-15 season at Duke.
With Scheyer at the helm following Mike Krzyzewski's retirement, Duke is 124-25 and has reached at least the Elite Eight each of the past three seasons.
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