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ACC Now podcast: Bucky Waters joins, talks about Jon Scheyer, Duke basketball history

Duke head coach Bucky Waters gives instructions to his players in a huddle at the bench during a 1972 ACC Basketball Tournament game.
Duke head coach Bucky Waters gives instructions to his players in a huddle at the bench during a 1972 ACC Basketball Tournament game. 1972 News & Observer archive photo
Durham

Bucky Waters was a first-year Duke assistant basketball coach under Vic Bubas in 1960 when the Blue Devils won the ACC tournament championship as a No. 4 seed.

Earlier this month, Jon Scheyer matched Bubas by winning the ACC title in his first season as a head coach at any level. Later a head coach at Duke himself, Waters joins the News & Observer’s Steve Wiseman to discuss the historic nature of the two events and share his thoughts on Scheyer’s first season with the Blue Devils.

You can also listen to this episode of the ACC Now podcast, and others, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Audible, TuneIn and Stitcher.

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Steve Wiseman
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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. 
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