As bad news keeps rolling in for the Duke basketball program involving guards from the 2019 class — Villanova commit Bryan Antoine and Arizona commit Nico Mannion spurned the coaches earlier this month, and experts are almost unanimously predicting Josiah James to choose Clemson over the Blue Devils when he makes his announcement on Wednesday morning — Mike Krzyzewski and his staff are not hanging their heads.
Instead, they are ramping up their pursuit of other 2019 guards — namely, Cole Anthony — and 2020 prospects so that the future doesn’t turn out as bleak as the present.