With their 3-2 win over American, the No. 22 Duke Blue Devils advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, where they will face No. 7 Cal, a 3-1 winner of Liberty in the first match of the evening. Duke improves to 27-4 and American ends their season at 26-8.
Duke is now 3-0 against American, but tonight was the first time the Eagles took a game off of Duke as the other two match-ups were sweeps. It was the second straight season Duke faced American in the NCAA Tournament first round.
Duke improves to 8-12 in the NCAA Tournament and is now 6-6 in first-round games. Duke has the second most NCAA Tournament wins in the ACC, just one behind Georgia Tech's total of nine.
Duke improves to 14-1 at Cameron this season and Duke's senior class of Shelley Capito, Carrie DeMange, Ali Hausfeld and Jenny Shull are 49-4 in the building, with three of those losses coming the first half of their freshman season.
Jenny Shull had 20 digs and upped her season total to 630, surpassing Stephanie Istvan's 2004 total of 629 for a new school record. She also now has 2,186 and is just 14 away from the ACC career mark, as well.
Jordan Norman had 16 kills and just three attack errors on 24 attempts for a .542 average. She added nine blocks. She didn't have an attack error until late in game three on a disjoined play and at that point she was hitting well over .800.
Carrie DeMange had 22 kills and 24 digs, both match highs. She also had just three errors on 40 attacks to hit .475. She is Duke's season kills leader and upped her career total to 1,960.
Ali Hausfeld recorded 76 assist, tying the second highest total of both the season and her career. She upped her Duke season record total to 1,670 and now has 6,139 career assist and moved into second place in ACC history, passing Georgia Tech's Andrea Nachtrieb's total of 6,102.
Duke's starting middle blocker combo of Carrie DeMange and Jourdan Norman combined for 38 kills, just five errors and 64 attempts for a blistering .516 attack percentage. They also combined for 25 digs and 11 blocks defensively, as well.