Duke Hands Out Offers to Jermaine Samuels and Alex O'Connell Posted Aug 25, 2016 Duke has offered scholarships to two Class of 2017 standouts in the last 24 hours. The Blue Devils offered 6-foot-6 wing Jermaine Samuels Jr. of the Weston (MA) Rivers School. Samuels just completed an official visit to Villanova and will soon visit Duke. Duke also offered 6-5 shooting guard Alex O'Connell of Alpharetta (GA) Milton. O'Connell visited Duke in June. (Zag's Blog)