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Friday, December 6
Blacksburg, VA
7 p.m.
Duke University
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Virginia Tech
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No. 10 Duke Opens ACC Play Friday at Virginia Tech
12/5/2019 12:35:00 PM | Men's Basketball
THE OPENING TIP
ACC OPENERS
Duke is 48-18 all-time in ACC openers, including 29-10 in the 39 ACC openers under head coach Mike Krzyzewski...Friday's game at VT marks the fourth time in the last five seasons that the Blue Devils opened ACC play on the road.
Duke is 11-6 when opening ACC play on the road under Coach K...The Blue Devils are 2-2 versus Virgina Tech when facing the Hokies in an ACC opener.
ON THIS DATE
Duke is 14-5 when playing on December 6th...The Blue Devils have opened ACC play on December 6th four time.
RANKED WINS
Duke, Michigan, Ohio State and Oregon are the only teams this season with multiple wins over AP Top 15 teams.
DUKE VS. VIRGINIA TECH
Friday's game is the 59th meeting between Duke and Virginia Tech, with the Blue Devils leading 48-10...In Blacksburg, Duke leads the series 12-7, but is looking to shake a three-game road skid at Cassell Coliseum...The game matches up two of the ACC's highest-scoring freshmen in Duke's Vernon Carey Jr. (19.2 ppg) and Tech's Landers Nolley II (20.0 ppg)...In last season's Sweet 16 win, then-freshman Tre Jones played all 40 minutes and posted his first career 20-point effort with 22 points and eight assists on 8-of-14 shooting, including 5-of-7 from three-point range...First-year head coach Mike Young spent the previous 17 years as head coach at Wofford, where he was 299-244 and took the Terriers to the NCAA Tournament five times...Young faced Duke just once in his time at Wofford -- an 84-55 Blue Devil win at Cameron Indoor on Dec. 31, 2014.
DUKE AWAY FROM CAMERON
In the Coach K era, Duke is 253-142 (.640) in true road games and 276-77 (.780) in neutral site games, for a combined mark of 529-219 (.706) in all games outside of Cameron Indoor Stadium...In ACC regular season play, Duke is 183-117 (.610) away from home under Coach K. The Blue Devils are 127-64 (.665) in ACC road games since the 1996-97 season...Coach K has also won 16 road games against AP top five teams, the most in the history of the AP poll.
CAREY'S DOUBLE-DOUBLE STREAK
Freshman Vernon Carey Jr., rides a streak of seven consecutive double-doubles into Friday's game...His seven double-doubles are tied for the NCAA lead...It is the longest streak by a Blue Devil since seven consecutive from Marvin Bagley III two seasons ago...For Carey, five games have been 20-10 efforts, while each of the seven have been 15-10 games...His streak of seven consecutive games of 15+ points and 10+ rebounds is tied for the third-longest all-time at Duke, and only the second by a player under Coach K...Duke freshmen have recorded 61 of Duke's last 63 games of 15+ points and 10+ rebounds.
MOST CONSECUTIVE 15-10 GAMES | DUKE HISTORY
   Player (Season)   Streak
   Mike Lewis (1967-68)   10
   Art Heyman (1961-62)   9^
   Randy Denton (1970-71)   7^
   Marvin Bagley III (2017-18)   7*
   Vernon Carey Jr. (2019-20)   7*
   Mike Gminski (1979-80)   6
*played for Mike Krzyzewski
^streak spanned two seasons
MOST DOUBLE-DOUBLES THIS SEASON | NCAA
   Player (Year), School   No.
   Vernon Carey, Jr. (Fr.), Duke   7
   Nathan King (Sr.), William & Mary   7
   Cletrell Pope (Sr.), Bethune-Cookman   6
   Paul Reed (Jr.), DePaul   6
as of Dec. 3, 2019
BEST UP-TEMPO DEFENSIVE TEAM
Among teams that play the most up-tempo style, Duke is by far the best defensive team...The Blue Devils rank No. 3 KenPom's adjusted defensive efficiency, while also ranking 20th in tempo (poss./40 minutes). Only one other team in KenPom's top 40 for adjusted defense is ranked higher than 40th in tempo -- Penn State (12th in defense and 34th in tempo)...Virginia, which is No. 1 in adjusted defensive efficiency, is ranked last in tempo (353rd), while Ohio State is second in defense and No. 296 in tempo.
BLOCK PARTY
Duke, which set a single-season school record for blocked shots last year (257), is back to its shot-swatting ways...Since Thanksgiving, no team in college basketball has blocked more shots than Duke's 29 (9.7 per game).
For the season, Duke is sixth in the NCAA in blocked shots per game (6.8)...Six different Blue Devils were in on the 11 blocks at Michigan State, including a career-high three from Matthew Hurt and three from Vernon Carey Jr...Carey has 11 of Duke's 29 blocks over the last three games.
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- No. 10 Duke plays its ACC opener away from home for the fourth time in the last five years when it travels to Virginia Tech for a Friday night date with the Hokies.
- The game tips at 7 p.m. ET and is live on the ACC Network, with radio coverage along the Blue Sports Network from Learfield IMG College.
- The game is a rematch of last season's Sweet 16, won by the Blue Devils, 75-73. Duke leads the overall series with Virginia Tech, 48-10, and has won seven of the last 10.
- Friday's game caps a brutal week that saw the Blue Devils win late Tuesday night at No. 11 Michigan State and turn around on two days rest to open ACC play on the road.
- Duke is 48-18 all-time in ACC openers, including 29-10 in ACC openers under head coach Mike Krzyzewski.
- Freshman Vernon Carey Jr., has posted seven consecutive double-doubles -- all seven have been 15-10 efforts, which is tied for the third-longest streak in Duke history -- and just the second by a player under Coach K.
- Carey's seven double-doubles are tied for the NCAA lead.
- Carey, who leads the ACC in field goal percentage (.600), is also fifth in the conference in scoring (19.2), second in rebounding (9.7) and third in blocks (2.4).
- Sophomore Tre Jones' first two career double-doubles have come over the last three games, including a 20-point and career-high-tying 12-assist effort in Tuesday's win at MSU.
- Duke has had four or more players score in double-figures in seven of the nine games this season.
- The Blue Devils have made 25-of-55 from three-point range over the last four games (.455) -- the NCAA's 11th-best percentage and third-best among power conference teams since November 22.
ACC OPENERS
Duke is 48-18 all-time in ACC openers, including 29-10 in the 39 ACC openers under head coach Mike Krzyzewski...Friday's game at VT marks the fourth time in the last five seasons that the Blue Devils opened ACC play on the road.
Duke is 11-6 when opening ACC play on the road under Coach K...The Blue Devils are 2-2 versus Virgina Tech when facing the Hokies in an ACC opener.
ON THIS DATE
Duke is 14-5 when playing on December 6th...The Blue Devils have opened ACC play on December 6th four time.
RANKED WINS
Duke, Michigan, Ohio State and Oregon are the only teams this season with multiple wins over AP Top 15 teams.
DUKE VS. VIRGINIA TECH
Friday's game is the 59th meeting between Duke and Virginia Tech, with the Blue Devils leading 48-10...In Blacksburg, Duke leads the series 12-7, but is looking to shake a three-game road skid at Cassell Coliseum...The game matches up two of the ACC's highest-scoring freshmen in Duke's Vernon Carey Jr. (19.2 ppg) and Tech's Landers Nolley II (20.0 ppg)...In last season's Sweet 16 win, then-freshman Tre Jones played all 40 minutes and posted his first career 20-point effort with 22 points and eight assists on 8-of-14 shooting, including 5-of-7 from three-point range...First-year head coach Mike Young spent the previous 17 years as head coach at Wofford, where he was 299-244 and took the Terriers to the NCAA Tournament five times...Young faced Duke just once in his time at Wofford -- an 84-55 Blue Devil win at Cameron Indoor on Dec. 31, 2014.
DUKE AWAY FROM CAMERON
In the Coach K era, Duke is 253-142 (.640) in true road games and 276-77 (.780) in neutral site games, for a combined mark of 529-219 (.706) in all games outside of Cameron Indoor Stadium...In ACC regular season play, Duke is 183-117 (.610) away from home under Coach K. The Blue Devils are 127-64 (.665) in ACC road games since the 1996-97 season...Coach K has also won 16 road games against AP top five teams, the most in the history of the AP poll.
CAREY'S DOUBLE-DOUBLE STREAK
Freshman Vernon Carey Jr., rides a streak of seven consecutive double-doubles into Friday's game...His seven double-doubles are tied for the NCAA lead...It is the longest streak by a Blue Devil since seven consecutive from Marvin Bagley III two seasons ago...For Carey, five games have been 20-10 efforts, while each of the seven have been 15-10 games...His streak of seven consecutive games of 15+ points and 10+ rebounds is tied for the third-longest all-time at Duke, and only the second by a player under Coach K...Duke freshmen have recorded 61 of Duke's last 63 games of 15+ points and 10+ rebounds.
MOST CONSECUTIVE 15-10 GAMES | DUKE HISTORY
   Player (Season)   Streak
   Mike Lewis (1967-68)   10
   Art Heyman (1961-62)   9^
   Randy Denton (1970-71)   7^
   Marvin Bagley III (2017-18)   7*
   Vernon Carey Jr. (2019-20)   7*
   Mike Gminski (1979-80)   6
*played for Mike Krzyzewski
^streak spanned two seasons
MOST DOUBLE-DOUBLES THIS SEASON | NCAA
   Player (Year), School   No.
   Vernon Carey, Jr. (Fr.), Duke   7
   Nathan King (Sr.), William & Mary   7
   Cletrell Pope (Sr.), Bethune-Cookman   6
   Paul Reed (Jr.), DePaul   6
as of Dec. 3, 2019
BEST UP-TEMPO DEFENSIVE TEAM
Among teams that play the most up-tempo style, Duke is by far the best defensive team...The Blue Devils rank No. 3 KenPom's adjusted defensive efficiency, while also ranking 20th in tempo (poss./40 minutes). Only one other team in KenPom's top 40 for adjusted defense is ranked higher than 40th in tempo -- Penn State (12th in defense and 34th in tempo)...Virginia, which is No. 1 in adjusted defensive efficiency, is ranked last in tempo (353rd), while Ohio State is second in defense and No. 296 in tempo.
BLOCK PARTY
Duke, which set a single-season school record for blocked shots last year (257), is back to its shot-swatting ways...Since Thanksgiving, no team in college basketball has blocked more shots than Duke's 29 (9.7 per game).
For the season, Duke is sixth in the NCAA in blocked shots per game (6.8)...Six different Blue Devils were in on the 11 blocks at Michigan State, including a career-high three from Matthew Hurt and three from Vernon Carey Jr...Carey has 11 of Duke's 29 blocks over the last three games.
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