Scheyer came to Duke in 2006 as a highly-touted teenager from the Chicago suburbs with a slender body and a deadly jump shot and matured into an All-American point guard who led his team to a national championship as a senior 4 years later.

As legendary Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski began plotting his retirement plan, his vision for his successor, Jon Scheyer, looked a lot like what’s happening now. Here’s what Coach K had to say.

Jon Scheyer won a national championship as a Duke senior in 2010, and he is coaching the Blue Devils in the Final Four next weekend.