Duke point guard Caleb Foster ruled out ahead of matchup vs. Louisville due to injury

Duke freshman point guard Caleb Foster was ruled out ahead of Wednesday night’s matchup with the Louisville Cardinals due to a lower leg injury, according to the Duke Basketball Twitter Account. The game got underway at 7 p.m. EST and Duke absolutely throttled Louisville with a score of 84-59. The Blue Devils finished with three players in double figures (Mark Mitchell, Jared McCain, and Jeremy Roach). Duke torched the nets on Wednesday night, drilling 11 of 22 (50%) shots from beyond-the-arc.

Foster played a team-high 22 minutes in the Blue Devil’s exhibition game vs. UNC Pembroke, stuffing the stat sheet with nine points and three rebounds, while dishing out three assists. He also tallied double-figures in his Duke debut, scoring 15 points on 6-of-10 shooting against Dartmouth.

Foster got the most minutes of his career against Georgia Tech, since Tyrese Proctor was injured. He played 36 minutes in that game, scoring 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting. The 6-foot-5 guard also dished out seven assists against Pittsburgh on January 7th, a career-high.

Coming out of high school, Foster was one of the most highly touted players in the nation. He transferred from Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Virginia) to Notre Dame High School (California) for his senior year. Foster was dominant, averaging 21.4 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 3.9 assists per game. In the final Nike EYBL session in the summer of 2022, he averaged 28.3 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 4.7 assists per game.

The gifted guard chose Duke over offers from Illinois, Stanford, and Louisville. According to the On3 Industry Rankings for the 2023 cycle, Foster was ranked as the No. 20 overall player in America and a four-star prospect. When he played for the Oak Hill Warriors (Mouth of Wilson, VA), Foster guided the team to a 32-8 overall record, while averaging 11.9 points on 53% shooting from the field. He decided to transfer to Notre Dame after legendary Oak Hill coach Steve Smith decided to retire.

Steve Smith helped build Oak Hill into one of the nation’s all-time great high school basketball programs, along with its never-ending surplus of elite talent. Oak Hill won the national title in 1993, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2016. MaxPreps named the Warriors as the Team of the Decade in the 1990s after they went 314-20 with three national titles in that time frame.