I had Luke Kennard pegged as the next Duke player to score 2,000 points.
I was wrong; not because Kennard wasn’t good enough but because he was too good. Too good to stick around longer than two years.
Kennard came from Ohio to Duke in the same class as Brandon Ingram, Derryck Thornton, Chase Jeter and Antonio Vrankovic, the latter the only one to stick around longer than two years.
Duke thought it would keep Kennard longer but he had a breakout season as a sophomore in 2017, averaging 19.5 points per game, while becoming a consensus second-team All-American.