No. 5 Seed Duke Faces No. 4 Seed Tennessee in NCAA Tournament Second Round

Saturday, March 18

Orlando, Fla.

2:40 p.m.

Duke University

Tennessee

No. 5 Seed Duke Faces No. 4 Seed Tennessee in NCAA Tournament Second Round

3/17/2023 12:30:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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Opening Tip

No. 12 Duke puts its 10-game winning streak on the line Saturday with an NCAA Tournament Second Round game vs. No. 20 Tennessee at Amway Center in Orlando.
Kevin Harlan, Stan Van Gundy and Dan Bonner are on the call for CBS. David Shumate and John Roth broadcast the game on the Blue Devils Sports Network from LEARFIELD, while John Sadak and Will Perdue are on Westwood One.
A year removed from reaching the program's 17th Final Four, the Blue Devils own the best winning percentage in NCAA Tournament history at .753 (119-39). Duke's 119 tournament wins rank third all-time and its five championships are fourth most.
Duke extended its winning streak to 10, while snapping Oral Roberts' Division I leading 17-game win streak, with Thursday's 74-51 victory behind junior Jeremy Roach's (right) career-high tying 23 points and freshman Dereck Lively II's 12 rebounds and six blocked shots.
Duke has ushered in the Jon Scheyer era with a priority on defense and rebounding -- the Blue Devils have held opponents below their season scoring average 31 times (27-4 in those games) and have out-rebounded 29 opponents (25-4 in those games).
Duke limited Oral Roberts, the nation's sixth best scoring offensive, to 51 points -- 33 below its average of 84.2, while out-rebounding the Golden Eagles, 46-32.
A finalist for the Joe B. Hall Award for best first-year coach, Scheyer became just the third coach in conference history to win the ACC Tournament in their first season. He and Vic Bubas, who reached the Elite Eight in 1960, are the only Duke coaches to win an NCAA Tournament game in their first seasons at Duke.
ACC Tournament MVP Kyle Filipowski averaged 19.7 points, shot .667 (24-of-36) from the field and pulled down 7.0 rebounds with two 20-point games and two double-doubles during a monster ACC Tournament. He leads all freshman nationally with 16 double-doubles.
Roach has matched his career-high 23 points in consecutive games after scoring 23 in the ACC Tournament title game win over Virginia. His team-high 23 on Thursday snapped a streak of 13 consecutive NCAA Tournament games that a Blue Devil freshman was the leading scorer.
Finding continuity after a year full of injuries, Duke has played 11 consecutive games with its full complement of players and has started the same lineup in 15 straight -- both its longest stretches this season. Duke is 19-1 overall in games with its full roster available.

On This Date: March 18

Duke is 9-3 all-time when playing on March 18 and has won nine in a row on this date.
Duke last played on this date last season, beating Cal State Fullerton, 78-61, in an NCAA Tournament First Round game in Greenville, S.C.

Opponent Notes

Tennessee earned a fifth consecutive NCAA Tournament berth, and the Volunteers (24-10) earned a No. 4 seed for the fourth time in program history.
This is Tennessee's 25th all-time NCAA Tournament berth, while Vols' head coach Rick Barnes is making his 27th appearance as a head coach and his fifth leading the program.
Senior Santiago Vescovi averages 12.6 points to lead a Vols team that scores 71.4 points per game, but allows just 57.9 -- the nation's third best scoring defense.
Vescovi and Duke's Tyrese Proctor are each products of the NBA Global Academy in Canberra, Australia.
Duke assistant coach Jai Lucas played his final two seasons at Texas for Rick Barnes, graduating from UT in 2011.
Duke and Tennessee have met 15 times, with Duke leading, 8-7.
The program's last met in the 2011 Maui Invitational -- a 77-67 Duke victory.
The only postseason meeting came in 1971 -- a 78-64 victory at Madison Square Garden in the NIT.

Duke's NCAA Tournament Supremacy; Highest Winning Percentage in Tournament History

With five national titles and 119 tournament wins, Duke is among the most successful programs in NCAA Tournament history.
Since winning the program's first title in 1991, Duke's five titles are the most in the NCAA in this span.
The Blue Devils are making their 45th NCAA Tournament appearance this season -- fifth most in NCAA history.
Duke's 24 consecutive appearances between 1996 and 2019 rank tied for the fourth longest streak in NCAA history.
The Blue Devils have played in 37 of the past 39 NCAA Tournaments that have been contested.
Duke is 119-39 (.753) all-time in the NCAA Tournament, which is No. 1 in winning percentage and third in wins.
The coach with the most wins in NCAA Tournament history (101-31), Mike Krzyzewski retired from coaching last season after reaching the Final Four for the 13th time in his career -- the most by any coach in NCAA history.
Coach K's five titles and .765 tourney win percentage are second to only John Wooden's 10 titles and .825 winning percentage (minimum 50 tournament games).

Duke 59 Wins in the East Region; Other Duke Tournament Notables

This marks the 19th time Duke has been placed in the East Region where the Blue Devils are now 59-16 (.787). Duke was last placed in the East Region in 2019.
Eleven of Duke's 17 Final Four appearances have come via the East Regional (2001, 1999, 1992, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1978, 1966, 1964, 1963).
Duke is playing as a No. 5-seed for just the second time in school history (1987). Since seeding began in 1979, this is just the fourth time Duke has been higher than a No. 4-seed.
Duke is now 3-1 all-time when playing as the No. 5-seed and is 8-1 in the tournament vs. No. 4-seeds.
Thursday's game vs. Oral Robert was Duke's second all-time in the city of Orlando and first since beating Stetson on Feb. 12, 1990, 102-67, at Amway Arena, which closed in 2010 to make way for the current Amway Center.
The state of Florida has been good to the Blue Devils in NCAA Tournament action, as Duke is now 7-2 in tournament games in the state.
Duke last played in Florida in the NCAA Tournament when Scheyer was a senior in 2010 -- winning twice in Jacksonville in the first and second rounds to kick start the team's national championship run.

Notes on Duke's Season-Long 10-Game Winning Streak

Duke's current 10-game win streak is a season long and is the longest active by power conference teams (as of March 16). The streak is Duke's longest since an 11-game winning streak to begin the 2017-18 season.
Just three other Duke teams in history have entered the NCAA Tournament on longer winning streaks -- the 1999 squad took a 27-game streak into March Madness, the 1963 team was on an 18-game streak and the 1986 team entered the NCAA Tournament on a 16-game streak.
All time, this is the seventh Duke team to enter the NCAA Tournament with a winning streak of six or more -- five reached the Final Four, including the 1992 championship team.
The Blue Devils have won these 10 by an average of 13.5 points and are averaging 75.2 points, shooting .491 from the field, .365 from three-point range, .783 at the free throw line with 155 assists against 94 turnovers.
Three Blue Devils are averaging double-figure points in the streak -- Kyle Filipowski (15.9), Jeremy Roach (15.7) and Mark Mitchell (10.4) with Tyrese Proctor at 9.9. Dariq Whitehead has averaged 7.9 and Dereck Lively II at 7.2 in the streak,
Duke has 155 assists on 273 field goals in the streak -- a 56.8 percent assist rate -- and just 94 turnovers -- 1.65 ratio with Proctor at 42 assists and 13 turnovers (3.23-to-1) and Roach at 35 and 20 (1.75-to-1).

Duke: NCAA's Top 20 for Rebounds, Offensive Rebounds and Rebound Margin

Duke has been among the nation's best rebounding teams this season, ranking No. 8 nationally in offensive rebounding percentage (36.3), fifth nationally in rebound margin (+8.3), 30th in offensive rebounds per game (12.2) and 18th in total rebounds per game (38.9) -- leading the ACC in offensive rebounds and margin, and second in the ACC in total rebounds. Duke has not lost the rebounding battle in 11 consecutive games.
The Blue Devils have out-rebounded 29 of their 35 opponents, including 14 by double-digit margins.
Since the start of the 2020-21 season, Duke is 57-8 when out-rebounding its opponent (25-4 this season).
Duke is +159 (447-294) in second-chance scoring this season and Duke is 20-5 in games this season when leading in second-chance scoring.
Individually, freshman Kyle Filipowski is 36th nationally and fifth in the ACC in rebounds (9.0) and leads all power conference freshmen. Duke has three of the ACC's top 10 in offensive rebounding with Filipowski sixth (2.57), graduate Ryan Young seventh (2.37) and freshman Dereck Lively II ninth (2.12).

74% Winning Percentage in NBA Arenas

For a college team that has 24 former players on NBA rosters, Duke has been tough to beat when playing in NBA venues.
Duke is a combined 94-33 (.740) all-time in 12 current NBA venues.
The Blue Devils have won 24 of their last 30 at NBA venues, including a 3-2 record this season and 5-1 record last season.
Thursday's game was Duke's first at the Orlando Magics' Amway Center, which is now home for a pair of recent former Blue Devils -- the NBA's overall No. 1 pick last year, Paolo Banchero,and the overall No. 7 pick in 2018, Wendell Carter Jr.

Blue Devils Out-Dunking Teams 115-58

Duke is out-dunking the opposition 115-58, led by Dereck Lively II's 57 and Mark Mitchell's 25 slams.
Lively is 77-of-117 (.658) from the field with 57 of his 77 career field goals being dunks.
Lively's 57 dunks are sixth most by a Duke freshman in a single season.

Duke's Three-Point Streak

Duke has connected on at least one three-pointer in 1,188 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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