No. 21 Duke Takes on No. 14 Miami in ACC Semis

Friday, March 10

Greensboro, N.C.

7:00 p.m.

Duke University

Miami

No. 21 Duke Takes on No. 14 Miami in ACC Semis

3/10/2023 9:41:00 AM | Men's Basketball

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Opening Tip

Putting its season-long seven-game win streak on the line, No. 21 Duke battles No. 14 Miami in the semifinals of the 2023 ACC Tournament on Friday night at Greensboro Coliseum.
Dan Shulman and Jay Bilas are on the call on ESPN2, while David Shumate and John Roth broadcast the game on the Blue Devils Sports Network from LEARFIELD. Also on the radio, Mike Couzens and Malcolm Huckaby have the call on ESPN Radio.
The Blue Devils are the winningest ACC Tournament team all-time with more wins (108), titles (21) and a better winning percentage (.701) than any team in the league.
Duke is 100-40 (.714) all-time at the Greensboro Coliseum, including 42-18 (.700) in the 28 previous ACC Tournaments with eight titles (1978, 1980, 1986, 1988, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2011).
A finalist for the Joe B. Hall Award for best first-year coach, Jon Scheyer holds the program record for wins in a debut season and is the ACC's first first-year coach to go unbeaten at home.
Duke reached its 49th ACC semifinal by posting season highs for points (96), assists (27) and field goal pct. (.620) in Thursday's 96-69 win over Pitt with four Blue Devils in double figures.
Duke's 27 assists vs. Pitt set an ACC Tournament record, surpassing 26 by UNC in 2001.
Duke has held opponents below their season scoring average 28 times (24-4 in those games) and the Blue Devils are second in the conference in scoring defense (64.0), second in three point field goal defense (.305) and second in field goal defense (.409).
Kyle Filipowski is Duke's ACC-leading 14th Rookie of the Year and also earned a spot on the All-ACC Second Team. He was an All-Freshman pick with Dereck Lively II and Tyrese Proctor. Lively was an All-Defense honoree, while Jeremy Roach was honorable mention All-ACC.
Filipowski poured in 22 points in just 15 minutes vs. Pitt, hitting 8-of-10 from the field and 4-of-6 from three-point range to lead all scorers. He is the first Duke freshman with a 20-point ACC Tournament debut since Zion Williamson's 29 vs. Syracuse in the 2019 qtrs.
Freshman Tyrese Proctor posted his second career double-double with 11 points, a career-high 10 assists (one turnover) in the Pitt win. He leads Duke with 102 assists and 1.89 A/T ratio.
The balanced Blue Devils, who have had four or more starters score in double figures in five straight games, lead the ACC in bench scoring at 19.4 points per game.
Freshman Mark Mitchell is averaging 12.8 points, 5.0 rebounds and shooting .579 (22-of-38) from the field over five consecutive games in double-digit points.

On This Date: March 10

Duke is 9-6 all-time when playing on March 10 and has won three straight and six of its last eight on this date.
Duke played on this date in last season's ACC quarterfinal win over Syracuse, 88-79.
Duke is 4-2 in ACC Tournament games at the Greensboro Coliseum on this date.

Duke Beats Pitt In ACC Quarterfinals

Duke reached its 49th ACC semifinal by posting season highs for points (96), assists (27) and field goal pct. (.620) in Thursday's 96-69 win over Pitt with four Blue Devils in double figures.
Duke's 96 points were its most in an ACC Tournament game since beating North Carolina, 96-73, in the 1999 championship game in Charlotte.
It was tied for the sixth most all-time for Duke in the ACC Tournament.
Duke's 27-point margin of victory was its ninth largest in the ACC Tournament and largest since beating Boston College, 86-51, in the 2021 first round.
The 96 points marked the third most by any ACC team in the quarterfinal round.
The game was the 24th in the all-time series versus Pitt, with Duke now leading 16-8. It was the teams' first ACC Tournament meeting. With the win over Pitt, Duke has now played every current (and former) member of the ACC at least once in the ACC Tournament -- the Blue Devils are .500 or better against every team.
Duke held Pitt to 5-of-18 from three-point range (.278), marking the 18th time this season Duke has held a team below .300 for the game.
Kyle Filipowski's 8-of-10 from the field marked the eighth time a Duke player has shot .800 or better (min. eight attempts) in an ACC Tournament game, and first since Zion's record 13-of-13 in the 2019 ACC quarterfinals vs. Syracuse.
The 10 assists by Tyrese Proctor were tied for the third most by a Blue Devil in the ACC Tournament and most since Trevon Duval had 11 vs. Notre Dame in the 2018 quarterfinals. Bobby Hurley's 13 vs. Maryland in the 1992 quarterfinals is the program record.

Notes on Duke's Season-Long Seven-Game Winning Streak

Duke's current seven-game win streak is a season long and tied for second longest by power conference teams (through March 9 games).
It marked just the eighth time in Duke's ACC era (since 1953-54) that the team entered the postseason on a win streak of six or more games -- Duke ultimately reached the Final Four in four of those seasons (1963, 1986, 1999 and winning the title in 2015), while three of those season produced an ACC Tournament title (1963, 1986 and 1999).
The Blue Devils have won these seven by an average of 13.6 points, allowing 62.7 points and a .389 field goal percentage and .317 from three.
Four Blue Devils have averaged double-figure points in the streak -- Kyle Filipowski (16.6), Jeremy Roach (14.0), Mark Mitchell (11.4) and Tyrese Proctor (10.3).
Duke has 115 assists on 195 field goals in the streak -- a 59 percent assist rate -- and just 63 turnovers -- 1.83 ratio, with Proctor at 31 assists and 11 turnovers (2.8-to-1) and Roach at 30 and 12 (2.5-to-1).
Duke is shooting .492 in the streak, led by freshman Dereck Lively II's 24-of-31 (.774) and Mitchell's 28-of-50 (.560).
As a team, the Blue Devils have converted 93-of-119 (.782) at the free throw line over the last seven wins.

Duke is 16-1 with its Full Roster Available

Finding continuity at the end of the season after a year full of disruptions by injury or illness, Duke enters the ACC semifinals having played eight consecutive games with its full complement of scholarship players available (7-1 in those games) and having started the same lineup in 12 consecutive games (10-2) -- both its longest stretches of continuity this season.
Duke has played just 17 games all season with its full complement available -- having not lost in regulation in those games (16-1), including wins over Xavier, Iowa, Ohio State, Miami, NC State, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Syracuse, Louisville, Virginia Tech and Pitt.
Seven of Duke's losses have come in the 15 games that Blue Devils were injured during the game or did not play due to injury or illness.
Freshman Dariq Whitehead sustained a lower leg injury at Virginia Tech on Jan. 23 and missed four consecutive games.
Whitehead began the season on the injured list after sustaining a foot fracture in the preseason and missing the first three games. He was held out of the loss at Wake Forest due to illness.
Classmate Dereck Lively II was also injured in the preseason (calf) -- missing the season opener -- also being held out at Wake (illness).
Junior Jeremy Roach sustained a toe injury on Nov. 27 vs. Purdue, played through the injury for three games before missing the game vs. UMES on Dec. 10. He returned for three more games, then re-aggravated the injury at NC State and missed the next three.

Duke's Three-Point Streak

Duke has connected on at least one three-pointer in 1,185 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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