Jon Scheyer gives health update on injured Duke players
BY ALEJANDRO LOPEZ
Duke could receive significant reinforcements to its roster in time for its Sweet 16 matchup.
Blue Devils head coach Jon Scheyer gave an update to the media on center Pat Ngongba and guard Caleb Foster on Thursday.
“Caleb, just go back to when he got hurt, he told me, ‘look, if I do this and work every day, you got to promise me you’ll let me put this uniform on again with our guys,’ Scheyer said. “He’s in a position where he’s going to try to do that tomorrow night. He had a good day of practice yesterday, doing a little bit. We have to see how he feels today. Hopefully he progresses well enough tomorrow where, again, it’s not like there’s a lot of practice time but we have to make sure he’s in position before the game more of a game-time decision.
He’s going to give it everything he has to go tomorrow night.”
While Foster remains an unknown Scheyer says Ngongba is ‘on track to play’ against St. John’s on Friday.
“Pat responded well,” Scheyer said. “You never know how that’s going to go. He’s on track to play again tomorrow, which is a really big deal for us.”
St. John’s will head into the matchup against the Blue Devils coming off of a buzzer beating victory against Kansas. The Blue Devils will need all the help they can get against the back-to-back BIG EAST champions who are clicking on all cylinders.
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