Sources: Oklahoma asst. Dildy signs up with Duke personnel

• Jeff Borzello,

  • ESPN Personnel WriterJul 27, 2023, 11:16 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider.
  • Signed up with ESPN in 2014.
  • Graduate of University of Delaware.Duke’s Jon Scheyer is

working with Oklahoma assistant Emanuel Dildy to his staff, sources told ESPN.Dildy will change Amile Jefferson, who left

previously this month to sign up with the Boston Celtics ‘staff.An assistant coach under Porter Moser at Oklahoma the previous two seasons, Dildy was promoted to associate head coach previously this offseason. The Chicago native invested the previous 3 seasons under Chris Collins at Northwestern and has actually made coaching stops at Valparaiso, Loyola Chicago(likewise under Moser ), Missouri, Eastern Illinois and Kennedy-King College.Editor’s Picks

1 Associated Dildy’s hire continues the pattern of Scheyer wanting to go outside the Duke household to fill his personnel, something former coach Mike Krzyzewski was reticent to do. It began last spring, when Scheyer employed Kentucky’s Jai Lucas as an assistant coach.Along with Lucas,

Dildy joins previous players Chris Carrawell and Will Avery, who was called an assistant coach previously this month, on Scheyer’s staff.Duke is No. 2 in ESPN’s Way-Too-Early Preseason Top 25 and opens the season on Nov. 6 at home versus Dartmouth.