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Saturday, February 25
Durham, N.C.
8 p.m.
Duke University
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Virginia Tech
Duke Takes on Virginia Tech Saturday Night at Cameron
2/24/2023 1:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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- In the midst of a season-long three-game homestand, Duke welcomes Virginia Tech Saturday.
- Wes Durham and Debbie Antonelli are on the call for ESPN. David Shumate and John Roth broadcast the game on the Blue Devils Sports Network from LEARFIELD.
- The Blue Devils have won three straight to pull within one game of a top-four spot and 2.5 games of first place in the ACC standings with three games remaining in the regular season.
- Over its three game winning streak, Duke is shooting .488 from the field and .397 from three-point range with an assist-turnover ratio of 2.0. Over its last three halves of play, Duke has 29 assists and 10 turnovers (just one turnover in that span by its starting back court).
- Duke has held 24 of 28 opponents below their season scoring average (20-4 in those games), including nine that scored a then-season low for points versus the Blue Devils.
- The Blue Devils are second in the conference in scoring defense (63.9), second in three-point field goal defense (.307) and third in field goal defense (.414).
- At 15.1 points, Filipowski is the nation's only freshman -- and one of just eight power conference  players overall -- averaging at least 15 points and nine rebounds this season.
- Leading the team in scoring in back-to-back wins over Syracuse (17 points) and Louisville (14), junior Jeremy Roach has scored 139 points over his last 10 games (13.9) since returning from a toe injury that held him out for three games. In that span, Roach has two 20-point efforts (in wins over Carolina and Wake) while shooting .482 (55-of-114) from the field.
- Freshman Tyrese Proctor hit a career-best four threes vs. Louisville and is second on the team in three-point shooting (19-of-46; .413) over the last 10 games.
- The balanced Blue Devils saw all five starters score in double figures in Monday's win over Louisville -- first occurrence this season. Duke leads the ACC in bench scoring at 20.5 points per game, with six players on the roster averaging at least 7.0 points and 2.0 rebounds.
- Head coach Jon Scheyer is just the third Duke coach all-time to win 20+ games in a debut season, joining Harold Bradley in 1950-51 (20-13) and Gerry Gerard in 1942-43 (20-6).
- Duke is 21-13 when playing on Feb. 25 and has won 11 of the last 13 on this date.
- Duke last played on this date in 2020 -- a 113-101 double OT loss at Wake Forest.
- Duke and Virginia Tech have met three times previously on this date -- in 2012, 2014 and 2015. Duke won each, including two in overtime (2012 in Durham, 2015 in Blacksburg).
- Duke is looking to even the season series when Virginia Tech visits on Feb. 25 for Duke's final Saturday home game this season.
- The Blue Devils dropped a 78-75 decision in Blacksburg on Jan. 23 -- a game that Duke led by as many as five in the second half. Kyle Filipowski scored a career-high 29 points with 10 rebounds in that game.
- The last 10 games in the Duke-VT series are knotted at five, but Duke has won nine straight home games in the series and leads the overall series, 51-13, and 22-1 in Durham.
- As a freshman, Jeremy Roach poured in a career-high 22 points in Blacksburg on Jan. 12, 2021, shooting 6-of-14 from the field and 8-of-8 at the free throw line -- 74-67 Hokie win.
- Duke leads the ACC in bench scoring this season at 20.5 points per game and eight different Blue Devils have led the team in scoring at least once this season. The Blue Devils are +165 in bench points (575-410) this season.
- Duke played eight players in Monday's win over Louisville and each of the starters scored in double figures for the first time this season. All eight scored in the first half and finished with each scoring at least three points. The eight each had least one rebound and recorded at least one assist as the Blue Devils finished the game with 19 assists against just six turnovers.
- Graduate Ryan Young played 14 minutes off the bench against the Cardinals with six rebounds, three points, three assists and two blocks for a team-high plus-minus of +24, while fellow grad student Jacob Grandison drilled three clutch three-pointers and grabbed three boards in 13 minutes.
- At the top of Duke's rotation since returning four games ago from a lower leg sprain that held him out for four games, freshman Dariq Whitehead has averaged 9.5 points and shot 14-of-30 (.467) from the field and 10-of-19 (.526) from three-point range in that span. He scored 14 off the bench at Syracuse by hitting a career-best 4-of-6 from behind the arc.
- In an overtime loss at No. 8 Virginia on Feb. 11, Whitehead, Young and Grandison each gave Duke a spark off the bench, with Whitehead scoring 10 points in his return from a four-game injury absence, Grandison scoring 11 including three three-pointers plus the game-tying three that forced overtime in the final minute and Young pulling down 11 rebounds to go with six points, and three assists.
- Bouncing back from being held scoreless at Virginia on Feb. 11 -- and not in double-figure points for just the fourth time this season -- Kyle Filipowski poured in 22 points on 9-of-16 shooting in last Tuesday's win over Notre Dame, followed that with his 12th double-double -- 14 points and 12 rebounds -- in last Saturday's win at Syracuse and had 13 points and seven boards on 5-of-7 shooting in Monday's win over Louisville.
- He ranks 17th in the ACC in scoring (15.0), fifth in rebounding (9.1) and third in double-doubles (12).
- With 28 points and 15 boards vs. Pitt on Jan. 11, he became just the third Duke freshman all-time to have at least 28-15 in a game, joining Marvin Bagley III (four times in 2017-18) and Jabari Parker (once in 2013-14).
- Filipowski poured in a career-high 29 points, along with 10 rebounds at Virginia Tech.
- He has scored in double-figures in 24 times, including in each of the first 12 games and in 12 of the last 14 games.
- A .767 free throw shooter (102-of-133), Filipowski knocked down the game winners at Boston College in the closing seconds and is 18-of-24 (.750) at the line in the game's final five minutes. He is 15th in the ACC in free throw percentage.
- Now with eight ACC Rookie of the Week honors, Filipowski is tied with former Blue Devil Jahlil Okafor for the fifth most in a season in conference history -- Â the ACC record of 10 is held by Duke's Jabari Parker (2014), UNC's Tyler Hansbrough (2006) and GT's Kenny Anderson (1990).
- In ACC history, the six previous players to win seven or more Rookie of the Week awards went on to be named ACC Rookie of the Year.
- He is one of just two freshman on the 20-player late-season watch list for the John R. Wooden Award, joining Alabama's Brandon Miller, and is among final 10 for the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year Award. He is also on the mid-season lists for the Oscar Robertson and Naismith Awards.
- Duke has been among the nation's best rebounding teams this season, ranking No. 5 nationally in offensive rebounding percentage (37.4), fourth nationally in rebound margin (+8.4), 12th in offensive rebounds per game (12.9) and 18th in total rebounds per game (39.2) -- leading the ACC in offensive rebounds and margin, and second in the ACC in total rebounds.
- The Blue Devils have out-rebounded 23 of their first 28 opponents, including 11 by double-digit margins. Duke opened the season with a double-digit rebound margin in each of the first six games -- the program record for longest such streak (at any point in a season). Duke had five-game streaks in 2017-18, 1998-98, 1962-63 and 1960-61.
- Since the start of the 2020-21 season, Duke is 51-8 when out-rebounding its opponent (19-4 this season).
- Duke is +125 (363-238) in second-chance scoring this season and Duke is 14-5 in games this season when leading in second-chance scoring.
- Individually, freshman Kyle Filipowski is 34th nationally and fifth in the ACC in rebounds (9.1) and leads all power conference freshmen. Duke has three of the ACC's top 10 in offensive rebounding with graduate Ryan Young and Filipowski tied for fifth (2.7) and freshman Dereck Lively II eighth (2.1).
- Duke has held 24 of the 28 opponents to below their season scoring average -- Duke is 20-4 in those games. Nine scored a then-season low for points, including holding Iowa to a then-season-low 62, Xavier to 64 (20 points below its average), Miami to a season-low tying 66 (12 off its scoring average), Georgia Tech to a season-low 43 and North Carolina to a then season-low 57 (21 off its average). The Hurricanes' also shot their lowest field goal percentage of the year vs. Duke (.349) in Durham in January.
- Syracuse's 55 points in last Saturday's 77-55 win marked the Orange's ACC season low -- and 20 points below the team's season scoring average.
- Duke defeated Georgia Tech on the road Jan. 28, 86-43, holding the Yellow Jackets to 18 second-half points and winning by 43 -- Duke's second-largest road ACC win in school history and just the third 40-point ACC road win all-time by the Blue Devils.
- The 43 points were tied for the second fewest allowed by Duke in an ACC road game all-time and its fewest allowed since beating Notre Dame, 57-43, last season in South Bend.
- The 57 points by UNC were its fewest in Durham since an 82-50 Duke win on Jon Scheyer's Senior Night in 2010.
- Duke has opened the season winning its first 14 home games, as head coach Jon Scheyer has establish a new ACC record for longest home court winning streak by a first-year head coach, breaking a mark set by North Carolina's Hubert Davis last season. Davis' streak was snapped by Duke's 87-67 win on Feb. 5, 2022.
- Duke is the only D-I school nationally with both men's (14-0) and women's (12-0) basketball teams unbeaten at home in 2022-23.
- Duke has sold out 504 consecutive games at Cameron Indoor Stadium -- the all-time NCAA record per Yahoo.
- The last time Duke played before a non-sold out crowd at Cameron was Nov. 16, 1990 vs. BC.
- The sellout figure is the longest current streak (by time) in either men's college or the NBA.
- Duke's record at Cameron during the sellout streak is 458-46.
- Last Saturday's win at Syracuse improved secured the Blue Devils their 700th all-time ACC regular-season win. Duke is now 701-346 all-time, the second most ACC wins in conference history.
- No team has been better over the ACC's recent history as both Duke's 412 wins since the start of the 1989-90 season and 181 victories since the start of 2009-10 are more than any team in the league.
- The Blue Devils are the reigning ACC regular season champions, having gone 16-4 in the conference last season.
- Duke has connected on at least one three-pointer in 1,181 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.
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