Mark Mitchell Jr. is an American college basketball player for the Duke Blue Devils of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Mitchell grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, and initially attended Bishop Miege High School.
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He averaged 21.6 points, 8.7 rebounds, 2.7 assists, and 1.8 blocks per game as a sophomore. Mitchell won the DiRenna Award as the top player in the Kansas City area after averaging 18 points and six rebounds per game as Bishop Miege won the Kansas Class 4A state championship.
Mitchell entered his freshman season at Duke as a starter at forward. He started 35 games and averaged 9.1 points and 4.5 rebounds while shooting 46.9% from the field during his freshman season.
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It has been a rough season so far for Duke basketball sophomore Mark Mitchell and things did not get any easier on Sunday morning when the world woke up to tweets from his father talking about his performance.
Posted at 2:31 a.m. ET on December 31, Mark Mitchell Sr. tweeted, “We as a family do not support what we’re seeing from Mark at Duke.”
“How do you show up at a university and lose your identity? Both Mark and Duke need to work it out. Disturbing.”
It came as a major surprise considering Mark Mitchell’s father had not been in the public eye very often, if at all, over the last two seasons and it felt even more strange considering a parent was not only calling out Jon Scheyer and the coaching staff, but firmly putting the blame on his son too.
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