Following the announcement that longtime Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski will retire at the end of next season, Jon Scheyer, the team’s associate head coach and a former Maccabi Tel Aviv shooting guard, was named the next head coach of the Blue Devils. Scheyer has coached for the Blue Devils since 2014, and served as head coach earlier this year in the absence of Krzyzewski, leading Duke to a suspenseful 83-82 victory over Boston College.

Scheyer grew up in a heavily Jewish suburb of Chicago and celebrated a basketball-themed bar mitzvah. As a teenager playing for Glenbrook North High School’s basketball team, Scheyer earned the nickname “Jewish Jordan.” He has been honored  twice by the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. From 2006-2010, Scheyer played for Duke University, twice serving as captain and leading the team to its 2010 national championship.