A few hours after being granted a release from his Stanford scholarship on Thursday, ESPN 100 prospect Miles Plumlee committed to the Duke Blue Devils. Plumlee, who averaged 15.8 points and 6.9 rebounds during his senior year, will join his brother Mason, a class of 2009 Duke recruit. "It's a wonderful opportunity and great that things played out the way they did," he told the Asheville Citizen-Times. "We can be together in college and that's an exciting thing. I'm really excited about Duke." Plumlee joins fellow ESPN 100 recruit Elliot Williams (Memphis, Tenn./St. George) and Olek Czyz (Reno, Nev./Reno) in coach Mike Krzyzewski's 2008 class.
"It was all in the family," said ESPN's National Recruiting Director Bob Gibbons. "The Blue Devils desperately needed to bolster their inside positions with size and scoring and Plumlee has the potential to help in that regard as a freshman. He runs the floor very well and is a highly skilled face-the-basket player. Miles has a rare blend of size, mobility and advanced skills in the fundamentals. He is not now a true low-post operative but with added strength and muscle he could really help the Blue Devils immediately at their most vulnerable positions.
Plumlee also had some interest in Indiana and Notre Dame, but the chance to play at Duke and rejoin his younger brother in 2009 was "the opportunity of a lifetime," his father, Perky Plumlee, told Gibbons.
