Duke basketball freshman Isaiah Evans says he chose Duke so he could push himself

Every five-star commit has their reason for choosing the Blue Devils, and Isaiah Evans explained his on The Brotherhood Podcast last week.

There’s no wrong reason for a five-star prospect to choose the Duke Blue Devils. After all, the program’s resources, national prominence, and five championships speak for themselves.

However, when five-star freshman [autotag]Isaiah Evans[/autotag] appeared on The Brotherhood Podcast last week, he came up with an entirely different answer for his choice.

The North Carolina native wanted to be challenged.

“It was just a personal thing,” Evans told sophomore teammate Caleb Foster. “Obviously, people were just telling me how good I was, and everywhere I was going, I was more or less just dominating…I wanted to go somewhere where it was like, ‘I’m really going to have to push myself.'”

Dominant would be an appropriate word for Evans’ senior year at North Mecklenburg High School. He averaged 27.5 points per game en route to a MaxPreps First Team All-American nomination and his second consecutive year as North Carolina Mr. Basketball. The Charlotte Observer even named him the best player from the area in the last four decades.

Duke basketball fans get their first look at Evans during the Countdown to Craziness on October 4.