Scheyer’s Duke basketball recruiting haul continues. Blue Devils land another 5-star

Duke not only won a game Friday night but the Blue Devils also picked up a big piece of their future teams.

Jared McCain, a five-star recruit from Corona, California, committed to play basketball at Duke beginning in 2023.

The 6-2, 175-pound McCain, a shooting guard, is the No. 23 player nationally, according to the 247sports.com composite rankings. He picked Duke over Gonzaga, Houston and Kansas.

McCain visited Duke on Feb. 6 and took a visit to Gonzaga the following weekend.

Duke now has three five-star players in the Class of 2023 who have committed to play for the Blue Devils and associate head coach Jon Scheyer, who will take over as head coach when Mike Krzyzewski retires following this season.

Caleb Foster, a 6-5 point guard from Oak Hill Academy (Va.), and Sean Stewart, a 6-8 power forward from Windermere, Florida, join McCain in Duke’s class, which is ranked No. 1 nationally. Scheyer and Duke also have the No. 1 class for the class of 2022.

This story was originally published March 19, 2022 at 9:26 AM.

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Steve Wiseman was named Raleigh News & Observer and Durham Herald-Sun sports editor in May 2025. He covered Duke athletics, beginning in 2010, prior to his current assignment. In the Associated Press Sports Editors national contest, he placed in the top 10 in beat writing in 2019, 2021 and 2022, breaking news in 2019, event coverage in 2025 and explanatory writing in 2018. Before coming to Durham in 2010, Steve worked for The State (Columbia, SC), Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, S.C.), The Sun Herald (Biloxi, Miss.), Charlotte Observer and Hickory (NC) Daily Record covering beats including the NFL’s Carolina Panthers and New Orleans Saints, University of South Carolina athletics and the S.C. General Assembly. He’s won numerous state-level press association awards. Steve graduated from Illinois State University in 1989.