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The pressure is on two Duke basketball pledges to close Patrick Baldwin Jr.
Eric Bossi, a recruiting insider who just moved from Rivals to 247Sports, recently interviewed Hamilton (Wis.) small forward Patrick Baldwin Jr. and posted it for his new employer on Monday. While the top prospect on the 247Sports 2021 Composite didn’t give any conclusive answers regarding his recruitment, he did give insight into Duke basketball’s closing strategy:
“I think it is definitely a Coach K and [Jon] Scheyer conversation and then really a Paolo Banchero and AJ Griffin situation where they are really doing a lot of the recruiting now.