For the first time in what feels like forever, Duke will have their starting point guard return for his sophomore season instead of entering the NBA Draft after one season in Durham. Tre Jones has announced his decision to return to Duke for a second year and not make himself eligible for this June's draft.

Jones posted a cryptic message on Instagram on Saturday night with just the caption "Year 2" that left fans wondering if he was officially coming back and then followed that up with another post of himself seated in front of his Duke jersey in the locker room prior to an NCAA Tournament game.

With today's announcement from the program, Jones has officially stated that he will return to play a second year on the college level and will chase a National Championship with a nearly entirely new cast of characters surrounding him on the court. However, this will be the most veteran roster that Coach K has featured in the recent one and done heavy years, a formula that has served National Title contenders well more often than not during the one and done era.

Duke is expected to see veteran returnees Javin DeLaurier and Jack White (senior), Alex O'Connell and Jordan Goldwire (junior) and Joey Baker (sophomore) back to go along with another highly rated recruiting class coming in. The Blue Devils will add Five-Star players Vernon Carey, Boogie Ellis and Wendell Moore at the very least on next year's roster but are also in the running for Top 10 forward Matthew Hurt who is expected to announce his decision on April 19th.

Center Marques Bolden, who would be a senior next year, is expected to put his name in to the NBA Draft and go through the pre-draft process before making an ultimate decision on whether he will return by the NCAA-enforced deadline set for May 29th.

While the Blue Devils are not expected to be as talented in the starting five as they were this past season with National Player of the Year Zion Williamson, all-time leading Duke freshman scorer RJ Barrett and projected lottery pick Cam Reddish off to the NBA, next year's team will be one of the deepest and most experienced squads Coach K has seen after losing eight players off the roster in 2016-17 and five in 2017-18 due to early NBA departures and transfers.

On the college level, at least, point guard play is one of the most important positions on the floor and having Jones back in Durham will pay huge dividends as the program looks to make it past the Elite Eight for the first time in five seasons in 2019-20. In his freshman season, Jones made his mark mostly as a facilitator, blowing out the previous assist-to-turnover ratio held by his brother, Tyus, at a 3.53 clip. Tyus put up an impressive 2.86 assist to turnover ratio in 2015.

But next year Jones will be asked to be more of a scorer, especially from beyond the three-point line where he shot just 26.2% (the lowest of any regular rotation player on the team). With a full offseason to work on that outside shot, Jones' game will be much more complete and he'll likely position himself for a much better draft position in the 2020 NBA Draft.