In other words, the teams may have fairly similar styles. That’s only a starting point but it’s an insight into where he may be going. He has said he wants to recruit versatile players who shoot and pass well. Lloyd of course is a master recruiter internationally and his style resembles that of Gonzaga’s Mark Few, where he worked for 20 years. He ran a 2-2-1 and had Lofton run baseline to baseline at the bottom. When he had Kenny Lofton, who went on to a brilliant MBL career, he did something that, to us, was just amazing. Olson’s was that he had elegant offenses and adaptable defenses. Is Courtney Ramey the next Justin Kier If that’s what Arizona wants from him, he’s ready to fill that role. Krzyzewski’s great strength was as a communicator and a guy who got his teams to fight. But the games aren’t likely to be quite the same. There is a lot of respect between these programs and some great history. He played for Coach K and coached under him as well and as much as Duke partisans like him, the jury will be out until the results are in. Keep in mind that he was not a popular choice: Olson’s former players really wanted to “keep it in the family,” but presumably everyone is happy with him now.
We’re not sure, but he may be the only coach to win 30 games in his rookie season. We have an idea of Lloyd, who had a phenomenal first year at Arizona, finishing 33-4. When the teams meet in 2023 of course, Tommy Lloyd will be coaching Arizona and Jon Scheyer will be coaching Duke. The other high point was Arizona’s double-overtime win in 1991.ĭuke fans are intimately familiar with Mike Krzyzewski, who stepped down after this year’s Final Four but Lute Olson was also a phenomenal coach and his teams played beautiful basketball. The schools have had some tremendous matchups over the years, with the biggest one obviously being Duke’s 2001 national championship win over the Wildcats.
Arizona basketball series#
The news that Duke and Arizona had set up a home-and-home series is great for college basketball.
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