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Monday, November 6
Durham, N.C.
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Duke University
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No. 2 Duke Battles Dartmouth in Season Opener
11/5/2023 4:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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- Coming off a 109-64 victory in Duke's lone exhibition game of the preseason, the second-ranked Blue Devils begin the 119th season of Duke men's basketball on Monday night, welcoming Dartmouth to Cameron Indoor Stadium.
- Mike Monaco and Randolph Childress are on the call for ACC Network, with tipoff scheduled for 9 p.m.
- In season openers, Duke is 91-27 all-time and has won 22 straight.Â
- Former Duke All-American and two-time team captain Jon Scheyer enters his second season as head coach for the Blue Devils after making history with his head-coaching debut last season.Â
- Scheyer became just the third coach in ACC history to win the ACC Tournament in their first season and is the first to win an ACC title as both a player (2009, 2010) and as a coach (2023).
- The Blue Devils are coming off an undefeated home season, the 19th in program history, after going a perfect 16-0 inside Cameron Indoor Stadium last season.
- Duke returns 60.4 points per game from last season, the most returning points by a Duke team since the 2008-09 season, and four players with 30+ starts for the first time since the 2000-01 season (Shane Battier, Carlos Boozer, Nate James and Jay Williams)
- Duke was selected to finish first in the ACC this season, as chosen by media members in their preseason predictions. The Blue Devils earned 44 of the 51 first-place votes and finished with 757 total points, leading Miami, North Carolina and Virginia atop the preseason poll.
- Kyle Filipowski, a Preseason AP All-American, led the team in scoring (15.1) and rebounding (8.9) as a freshman and tallied 16 double-doubles -- best by any Division I freshman in 2022-23. Filipowski was voted ACC Preseason Player of the Year in mid-October.
- The Blue Devils have three captains this season -- Tyrese Proctor, Jeremy Roach and Ryan Young. Proctor is just the fourth sophomore captain in program history.
- Duke and Dartmouth are meeting for the first time.
- The Big Green went 10-18 overall last season and 6-8 in the Ivy League.
- Following Monday night's contest, the Blue Devils will have played every Ivy League school at least once and hold a 56-9 record against the conference, including wins in 42 of the last 43.
- Duke has connected on at least one three-pointer in 1,189 straight games, the second-longest streak nationally.
- It has been more than 30 years since Duke was held without a three-point field goal -- Dec. 30, 1989, versus Hawai'i.
- Duke has sold out 506 consecutive games at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The last time Duke did not have a sellout at home was on Nov. 16, 1990, against Boston College.
- The sellout figure is the longest current streak (by time) in either men's college basketball or the NBA.
- Duke's record at Cameron during the sellout streak is 460-46 (.909).
- Duke has won 22 consecutive season openers and is 91-27 all-time in those games.
- When playing at Cameron Indoor Stadium, the Blue Devils are 48-6 all-time, have been victorious in 40 of the last 41 and have won 29 straight -- their last loss was to Vanderbilt, 76-75, in double overtime on Nov. 26, 1981.
- Duke defeated Jacksonville, 71-44, in last year's opener, as Jon Scheyer became the fifth straight Duke head coach to win in their debut.
- Duke has posted an all-time record of 946-171 (.847) at Cameron Indoor, that included a 572-76 (.883) record under Coach K.Â
- Duke has won more games at its current home venue than any team in college basketball.
- Now in its 85th season as the home of the Blue Devils, Duke has averaged 11.1 wins since the venue opened January 6, 1940 -- a 36-27 win over Princeton.
- Duke returns 60.4 points per game from last year's roster, the most by a Duke team since the 2008-09 season, and brings back 77.9% of points scored in 2022-23 -- the most since the 2007-08 Duke team returned 81.3%.
- Each of the Blue Devils' top-four scorers from a year ago are on the 2023-24 roster, which is the first time since at least 1997 -- as far back as research allows -- according to ESPN.
- Four different players who made 30 or more starts in 2022-23 have returned to Durham, which marks the first time in Duke lore since the 2000-01 roster that included Shane Battier, Carlos Boozer, Nate James and Jay Williams. The 2000-01 team went on to win the program's third national championship.Â
- Senior guard Jeremy Roach enters the season just 20 points shy of the 1,000 career points threshold while graduate Ryan Young is 26 points away.
- The Blue Devils currently have 67 1,000-point scorers in program history, tied with Notre Dame and Villanova for third-most of any NCAA Division I program
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