Despite the 2024-25 regular season ready to tip off, recruiting won’t stop anytime soon for Duke basketball coach [autotag]Jon Scheyer’s[/autotag] team. Most recently, five-star 2026 guard Jordan Smith Jr. made it to campus on an official visit.
Smith made his visit known through a story he shared on his Instagram account on Friday that showed the school’s campus. League Ready’s Sam Kayser confirmed his visit later that same day.
Smith, who attends Paul VI Catholic in Fairfax, Virginia, is the No. 8 overall player in the nation according to the 247Sports Recruiting Rankings, making him the third-best shooting guard in the class and the best overall player from Virginia.
The 6-foot-2 guard, the former high school teammate of current Duke freshmen Darren Harris and Pat Ngongba II, is clearly among Duke’s top targets in the 2026 class. Scheyer visited him at school in September, and associate head coach Chris Carrawell came to see him in October.
Smith has 17 other offers from schools like the Michigan Wolverines, Florida State Seminoles, Kentucky Wildcats, and North Carolina Tar Heels, among others. He recently visited Louisville and Syracuse.