For Tre Jones, leaving Duke without a national title was tough—but leaving without even having the chance to pursue said title was agonizing.
“It’s rough,” Jones said in an interview with Sports Illustrated. “When it finally set in that it just wasn’t going to happen, no matter what, it hurt. As a competitor you always know that you, at least, have a chance. That was really the whole reason I wanted to go to Duke was to get that national championship.”
During the 2019–20 season, Jones averaged 16.2 points and 6.4 assists for the No.