McDonald’s has named a prep All-American team every year since 1977. And with Thursday’s announcement of the rosters for this year’s game — to be played on March 27 — there have now been 77 future Duke basketball players to make the team (the first year, Gene Banks made the team, but there was no actual game).
That’s an average of almost two Dukies per year. No other program has had more total representatives.
The 2019 selections — 24 teenagers split evenly amongst the East and West teams — include two guys who have already committed to Duke: Vernon Carey Jr.