Look for the 2026 Duke basketball recruiting season to pick up in the following months.
In a month and a half, Duke basketball coaches and their counterparts throughout the country will have their first opportunity to engage 2026 prospects directly. Jason Crowe Jr., a guard at Lynwood High School in California, is one to watch.
The Blue Devils have recently had success with California talent, including this season’s sharpshooting wonder, one-and-done guard Jared McCain. And Crowe, an uptempo bucket-getter ranked eighth overall and second among point guards on the 247Sports 2026 Composite, recently told Rivals’ Rob Cassidy that Duke is one of the schools he hopes to attract.
“Hopefully, Kentucky, Duke, USC, and UCLA,” the 6-foot-2, 165-pound five-star told Cassidy when asked which schools he hopes to hear from on June 15, the first day colleges can contact, phone, and message rising high school seniors.
Jason Crowe Jr. West Mania highlights! 5-Star PG in the 2026 class 🔥 @crowezone5 @madehoops @EHACircuit pic.twitter.com/yWg8j339pK
— Courtside Films (@CourtsideFilms) April 25, 2024
UCLA is now the only of the four schools mentioned above to have made an offer to Jason Crowe Jr.
As he told Cassidy, who dubbed the 15-year-old “the most prolific sorcerer in the class of 2026,” the international route remains appealing to him, though he’s “not ruling out college either” as the best road to realize his NBA aspirations.
Jon Scheyer, Duke’s basketball coach, is yet to enter the competition for 2026 preps. Again, that’s likely to change this summer when he and his team scout prospects at various AAU competitions and begin contacting possible
targets.
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