Youth Movement: Carey Falls Short of Matching Fellow Duke Frosh Phenoms

Last year, Duke's R.J. Barrett and Zion Williamson achieved a distinction luminaries Mark Aguirre, Carmelo Anthony, Stephen Curry, Patrick Ewing, Phil Ford, Tyler Hansbrough, James Harden, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Bernard King, Alonzo Mourning, Shaquille O'Neal, Derrick Rose, Ralph Sampson and Russell Westbrook failed to do. Barrett and Williamson, joining Kentucky tandem DeMarcus Cousins and John Wall in 2009-10, became an NCAA consensus first-team All-American as a freshman. This season, Blue Devils freshman Vernon Carey Jr. earned NCAA consensus second-team acclaim but fell short of joining the 24 yearlings on the following chronological list in this rare-air category named first-team A-A: