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12/17/1999 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Duke (#11 AP/#11 USA Today) vs.
North Carolina A&T
December 19, 1999 - 1:00 pm
Cameron Indoor Stadium - Durham, N.C.
Blue Devils Return To Action With In-State Aggies
Eleventh-ranked Duke (6-2) returns to action following final exams for a quick pair of home games before the holiday break. The Blue Devils open the homestand with a matchup against North Carolina A&T at 1 pm on Sunday in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Davidson will come in Tuesday night to complete the two games-in-three days cycle.
The Blue Devils will be looking to extend an 18-year stretch of having not lost to a non-ACC in-state opponent. That streak dates back to Dec. 29, 1981 when Duke fell to Davidson. Duke is 154-26 all-time against such in-state foes.
Duke will also attempt to add to its ACC and school record 39-game homecourt winning streak. The streak is the second longest in the country, behind only Murray State's 45 straight wins at home. Duke is 123-2 against non-ACC opponents in Cameron since 1983.
The Blue Devils have rebounded from back-to-back season-opening losses with six straight wins, including consecutive wins over nationally-ranked Illinois and DePaul. Most recently, Duke captured a 104-97 win at Michigan.
Last Game - Duke 104, Michigan 97
Freshmen Carlos Boozer and Jason Williams dominated down the stretch and excelled throughout in leading Duke to a thrilling 104-97 victory at Michigan last Saturday afternoon.
The Juneau, AK native netted a career-high 25 points in the contest,16 of which came in the second half. Boozer sparked a key six-minute Duke run in the second half, as he scored 14 of the Blue Devils' 17 points in that stretch. He was an impressive 8-of-11 shooting in the game, along with a 9-of-11 showing at the free throw line. In 32 minutes, Boozer added to his offensive production with three blocked shots, two assists and a steal. One of his assists set up a Shane Battier layup that gave Duke a 97-93 lead late in the second half.
More About Duke
Duke returns two starters and five lettermen from last year's national runnerup squad which compiled an NCAA record-tying 37 wins against just two losses and swept through the ACC with a perfect 16-0 mark.
Senior Chris Carrawell and junior Shane Battier return as starters and are both listed as preseason candidates for the Wooden Award - given to the nation's most outstanding player.
Carrawell has 69 career starts and became Duke's 45th player to score 1,000 career points against DePaul. The versatile 6-6 performer had a career-high 28 points against Stanford in the season opener and has had four 20-point-plus performances, including in three of the last five games. He leads the team in scoring (17.0) and is second in rebounding (6.1).
Battier earned the 1999 National Defensive Player of the Year honors and has already started his effort to repeat with 15 steals and and a team-high 15 blocked shots. He also has averaged 15.3 points and 6.3 rebounds a game.
Junior Nate James and freshman Jason Williams have also started all eight games. Williams is scoring 14.6 points per game and leads the squad in assists (47). James has had five double-digit scoring performances.
Starting Lineup
No Player PPG RPG APG 23 Chris Carrawell 17.0 6.1 2.9 (6-6, 215, Sr., St. Louis, Mo.) 31 Shane Battier 15.3 6.3 1.4 (6-8, 215, Jr., Birmingham, Mich.) 4 Carlos Boozer 9.4 5.1 1.0 (6-9, 260, Fr., Juneau, Ak.) 14 Nate James 12.1 5.5 2.4 (6-6, 205, Jr., Washington, D.C.) 22 Jason Williams 14.6 5.6 5.9 (6-2, 190, Fr., Plainfield, N.J.)
Key Reserves
34 Mike Dunleavy 9.1 3.5 2.1 (6-7, 200, Fr., Lake Oswego, Ore.) 3 Nick Horvath 4.0 2.5 0.3 (6-10, 215, Fr., Arden Hills, Minn.) 41 Matt Christensen 1.9 3.1 0.3 (6-10, 240, So., Belmont, Mass.) 20 Casey Sanders 1.7 1.8 0.0 (6-11, 205, Fr., Tampa, Fla.)
Duke Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski
Duke's all-time winningest coach and certainly one of the leading ambassadors of college basketball, Mike Krzyzewski, is in his 20th season at the helm of the program that he has guided to unparalleled success during his career.
The numbers don't tell the whole story of his program at Duke, but nonetheless, they are impressive: 475 total wins, 223 weeks in the Top 25, 115 weeks in the Top 10 (including the 43 of the last 48 polls), 51 weeks ranked #1 in the country (including three times in the final regular season polls in 1986, 1992 and 1999), 48 NCAA Tournament wins, 15 NCAA Tournament bids, eight Final Fours in the last 14 years, seven regular season ACC championships, six NCAA championship game appearances, four ACC tournament titles and the only back-to-back national championships in the past quarter century of college basketball in 1991-92.
Coach K's overall career record stands at 548-216 (.717). He began the year with 542 wins which was the fifth highest total in NCAA history for a coach after 24 seasons. He became just the 10th coach in NCAA history to attain his 500th career victory in his 23rd season as a college coach.
The Chicago native began his coaching career at Army in 1975-76 where he led the Cadets to an NIT appearance. He took over atDuke prior to the 1980-81 season and has accumulated a 475-157 record (.752) in 20 seasons.
Coach K was the President of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) in 1998-99 and is also involved with several community groups, including the Duke Children's Hospital and nationally with the Jimmy V Foundation. It was recently announced that Coach K will receive the 2000 John R. Wooden Award's "Legends of Coaching" Honor on April 7.
The six-time National Coach of the Year and five-time ACC Coach of the Year has a 48-13 all-time record in the NCAA Tournament. Coach K is the winningest active coach in the Tournament and is second behind only Dean Smith for most NCAA Tournament wins by any coach in history.
Coach K owns a 5-0 record against North Carolina A&T.
Duke/A&T - The Series
Duke leads the series with North Carolina A&T by a 4-0 count, including an 88-53 victory in Cameron Indoor Stadium last December 20. This is the third game of a three-year series between the two schools which started two years ago in the Greensboro Coliseum.
Last year, Elton Brand came off the bench to lead all scorers with 21 points and made a perfect 13-of-13 from the foul line in the 35-point win. Duke committed 19 turnovers and shot just 47.4 percent from the field but turned up the defensive pressure to secure the win. A&T shot a paltry 31.3 percent from the field and committed 27 turnvers as Duke also collected 13 blocked shots and 12 steals. Duke opened with a 24-4 run.
Duke and North Carolina A&T first met in the 1981 NIT when the Blue Devils took a 79-69 victory on March 12. It was Duke's first postseason appearance under head coach Mike Krzyzewski.
Trends & Notes
Duke has outrebounded five of its last six opponents...Duke has won two straight games against nationally-ranked opponents (Illinois and DePaul) despite shooting less than 50 percent from the field in both games... Jason Williams is the only player to have scored in double-figures in all eight contests...Shane Battier had first double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds against Illinois while Williams had his first career double-double against DePaul with 15 points and 10 assists... Duke has four players averaging five rebounds or more...Duke shot a season-high 80.8 percent from the free throw line against DePaul.
Road Warriors
Duke has travelled over 9,000 miles this season with road trips to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Ann Arbor, Mich. On the road, Duke has faced three Top 25 teams, including then No. 1 Connecticut and then No. 13 Stanford, plus undefeated Michigan and Illinois squads. All of this came between Nov. 11 until Dec. 11 with Duke emerging with a 6-2 record to that point.
National Rankings
Duke has been ranked in the Top 25 for 61 consecutive polls. During Mike Krzyzewski's career at Duke, the Blue Devils have spent an incredible total of 223 weeks ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 with 115 of those weeks in the Top 10.
Duke opened the 1999-2000 season with a streak of 43 straight weeks ranked in the AP Top 10 which was the longest active streak in the country. That streak was snapped in the first week when Duke lost its first two contests and fell to No. 18.
The Blue Devils finished the 1998-99 season on top of the national rankings for the first time since 1992. In fact, it was just the third time in school history that Duke has finished No. 1 in the final poll, joining the 1986 and 1992 squads.
Duke finished in the Top 10 in the final AP poll seven times in the 1990's, including eighth in 1997, third in 1998 and first in 1999.
Duke is 2-2 against Top 25 teams in 1999-2000.
Blue Reign - The 1990s & Forever
Over the past 15 years, the Blue Devils have dominated opponents outside the ACC by a wide margin. In that span, Duke owns a 239-32 record (88.2 percent) against non-conference teams, including the NCAA Tournament.
In the 1990's, Duke owned the third highest total of wins with 271 victories. Duke has also climbed into fourth place for the most all-time wins in NCAA history.
ACC Domination
Duke has dominated ACC regular season play over the last three seasons, topping it with an unprecedented 16-0 record with an average winning margin of 24.3 points in 1998-99.
The Blue Devils are just the fourth school to win three or more straight outright ACC regular season titles. The others are Duke (1963-66) and North Carolina (1967-69 and 1976-78).
Duke has won 22 straight ACC regular season games and owns a 41-3 record in the last 44 such games. The only three losses were to Top 10 ranked opponents. The Blue Devils have also won 32 of its last 33 ACC regular season games.
Final ACC Standings In The 1990s
No. School W L Pct 1. Duke 109 47 .699 2. North Carolina 108 48 .692 3. Wake Forest 86 70 .551 4. Maryland 80 76 .513 5. Georgia Tech 73 83 .468 6. Virginia 69 87 .442 7. Florida State 56 72 .438 8. Clemson 60 96 .385 9. N.C. State 49 107 .314
ACC Regular Season Titles In The 1990s
No. School Outright Share Total
1. Duke 6 0 6
2. North Carolina 1 1 2
3. Clemson 1 0 1
Georgia Tech 1 0 1
Maryland 0 1 1
Virginia 0 1 1
Wake Forest 0 1 1
Cameron Advantage
The Blue Devils have had a great deal of success in famed Cameron Indoor Stadium, winning over 80 percent of their games all-time. The 1999-2000 season marks the 60th Anniversary of playing in Cameron. Duke is in a current school record and ACC record 39-game winning streak in Cameron. The streak dates back to an 81-69 loss to then-No. 2 Wake Forest on January 11, 1997.
During the 39-game streak, Duke has a winning margin of 41.5 points in the 17 non-ACC games. In the 22 ACC games, the winning margin has been 20.7 points per game. The overall becomes 28.2 points per game for the 38-game streak.
Duke's all-time record in Cameron is 597-135 for an 81.6 win percentage in the building which opened January 6, 1940. The 597 wins is the most in the ACC and sixth-highest total in the country on a current home court. The Blue Devils are coming off the most successful decade in Cameron history with an incredible 133-17 record in the 1990's. Under Coach K, Duke owns a 239-42 record for an 85.1 winning percentage since 1980-81. Duke has also won 123 of its last 125 games against non-conference opponents in Cameron. During the stretch, the Blue Devils have reached the 100-point mark 43 times, including the 1999-2000 season opener against Army.
The only two losses to non-conference teams in Cameron since 1983 have come against Illinois on December 2, 1995, and Michigan on December 8, 1996.
Duke Starts With "D"
The Blue Devils will look to continue a long-standing tradition of outstanding team defense in 1999-2000 after two straight seasons of inspired efforts on the court.
Duke's field goal percentage defense of 39.1 in 1998-99 was the lowest in the Coach K era and the best at Duke since the 1959-60 squad limited opponents to 38.3 percent shooting from the field.
Duke's Defensive Numbers
Category 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 Opp. FG Pct. 46.7 44.2 41.5 43.9 43.7 42.2 41.1 39.1 40.7 Opp. 3pt FG Pct. 38.2 28.9 29.7 38.6 33.5 34.0 30.5 30.1 31.8 Opp. Points/G 72.6 71.2 67.3 73.7 69.8 66.2 64.1 67.2 70.3 Blocks/Game 3.9 5.0 6.0 4.4 3.6 4.0 5.1 6.3 5.1 Steals/Game 8.2 8.4 7.1 5.7 6.0 8.5 9.4 8.9 9.5 Opp. TO/Game 17.8 17.9 15.1 13.6 16.0 18.2 19.9 17.7 18.1
The Minister Of Defense
(And Much More) - SHANE BATTIER Coach K has called Shane Battier one of the most fundamentally sound defensive players he has ever had in his program and for good reason. The Birmingham, Mich., junior was named the National Defensive Player of the Year by the NABC in 1999 after setting the school record for most charges taken and led the team with 65 steals and recorded 43 blocked shots.
Charges taken have become his specialty for in the past two seasons he has set the school record with 29 in 1997-98 and 36 in 1998-99. He has had a team-high eight this season.
On the offensive side of the ball, Battier has developed his game tremendously in the last two seasons. The efforts were topped with a 27-point explosion versus Maryland last February in which he converted 10-of-13 shots from the field, including 4-of-4 from three-point range. This year he is averaging 15.3 points per game while grabbing a team-high 6.3 rebounds a game. He has also connected on 15-of-39 three-pointers for a 38.5 shooting percentage and has scored in double-figures in seven of the eight contests.
Oh So Close
Freshman Jason Williams nearly pulled off a rare triple-double against DePaul on December 4 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The 6-2 guard had 15 points with a career-high 10 assists and nine rebounds. In addition he also had six steals in 45 minutes of action.
The nine rebounds came within one of his career-high which he achieved in his collegiate debut against Stanford. Only Gene Banks has ever recorded a triple-double in school history. The last to come close was Grant Hill in 1994 when he nine points, 10 rebounds and nine assists against Florida State.
Rejection Defense
Shane Battier has quickly moved up Duke's all-time rejection list, standing in sixth place with 109 career rejections after swatting away 43 shots in 1998-99, the second highest figure on the team. He opened the 1999-2000 season with two blocked shots each of the first four games. In addition he had a season-high four rejections against DePaul.
Against Connecticut he became the ninth player in school history to record his 100th career blocked shot. He needs two blocked shots to tie his former teammate Elton Brand (1998-99) for fifth all-time at Duke with 113 rejections.
Roster Update
Freshman walk-on Andy Borman was a member of Duke's No. 1-ranked men's soccer squad. He joined the basketball program on Wednesday for his first day of practice. Of note is the fact that Borman is Coach K's nephew.
Boozer Earns Acc Rookie Honor
Freshman Carlos Boozer earned ACC Rookie of the Week honors on December 13 following his career-high 25-point, 10-rebound performance at Michigan. Boozer converted 8-of-11 field goals and 9-of-11 free throws while also adding three blocked shots, two assists and a steal. It was Duke's first ACC weekly honor of the season.
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