The story of how Duke assembled its best recruiting class of the one-and-done era began before any of its five prized freshmen had even started playing high school hoops.
The foundation was laid in the first week of September 2013, when the Blue Devils coaches boarded a private jet bound for Apple Valley, Minnesota. When they walked into the living room of the Jones house that afternoon, they discovered they would have an audience not only with Tyus, the top point guard in the class of 2014 (according to ESPN), but also with his 13-year-old brother, Tre.