Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer has talked about Patrick Ngongba II's impressive abilities to impact winning ever since the former five-star recruit out of Paul VI Catholic High School (Va.) arrived in Durham as a freshman ahead of the 2024-25 campaign. But now that Ngongba, who was on back-to-back 35-win Blue Devil squads, is a seasoned junior fresh off a brilliant performance in Sunday's 90-84 road exhibition win over the Kansas Jayhawks, Scheyer has dialed the praise up a notch.

"He controlled the entire game, his passing, his scoring, his rebounding, defense," Scheyer said in Duke's postgame press conference after the 6-foot-11, 250-pound 20-year-old tallied a game-high 28 points, 10 rebounds, and two blocks against the Jayhawks, not to mention his team-high four assists and highly efficient shooting clips of 9-for-12 from the field, 1-for-2 from downtown, and 9-for-10 at the charity stripe.

"I could go on and on. I don't want him to get too big of a head.…