Duke's Caleb Foster Makes Decision on His Future After John Blackwell Transfer

Duke point guard Caleb Foster is officially coming back to Durham for his senior season.

The Blue Devils confirmed Foster's return in a Wednesday post on social media.

The news comes the day after Duke landed one of the top guards available in the portal in Wisconsin transfer John Blackwell.

Duke is also set to bolster its backcourt with the return of Cayden Boozer and the arrival of 5-star recruit Deron Rippey Jr.

Foster spent most of his first two seasons with Duke coming off the bench before taking on a full-time role as starting point guard in 2025.

Through the first 30 games of his junior season, Foster averaged 8.6 points per game on 44.5 percent shooting from the field and 40.4 percent from deep.

He also added 3.7 rebounds and 2.9 assists in 26 minutes on the court per game.

Foster suffered a fractured right foot necessitating surgery in his 31st game of the season during Duke's regular-season finale on March 7.

He returned to the lineup just 20 days later to help lead the Blue Devils to a comeback Sweet 16 win while playing limited minutes against St. John's.

"It was incredible the way he willed us," Duke coach Jon Scheyer said after his team's Sweet 16 win, per WRAL's Brian Murphy. "There's no analytics. There are not stats that can measure how big this dude's heart is for what he did."

Following the program's Elite Eight elimination, Duke is expected to lose some of last season's starters to the NBA draft in Cameron Boozer and Isaiah Evans. Two key reserves are out after the expiration of Maliq Brown's college eligibility and Nikolas Khamenia's transfer to UConn.

The Blue Devils are bringing back big man Patrick Ngongba II, who announced his return for his junior season Monday. They're also bringing in a recruiting class listed at No. 1 in the nation by 247Sports composite rankings.

Ngongba, Foster and Blackwell will now be expected to anchor Duke's starting lineup. Dame Sarr could also slot back in alongside them should he return to Duke for his sophomore season, while five-star forward Cameron Williams could follow in Cameron Boozer and Cooper Flagg's footsteps by starting as a freshman.

Scheyer will hope combining experience and new talent in his lineup will help the program build on five straight trips to the NCAA Tournament by making a run to their first national championship game since the Mike Krzyzewski era.