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Saturday, February 15
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Duke University
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Duke Hosts Stanford in ACC Action on Saturday
2/14/2025 2:26:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Dick Vitale Returns to Cameron Indoor Stadium with ABC Broadcast Team
The Opening Tip
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- No. 3 Duke hosts new ACC foe Stanford on Saturday, Feb. 15. The Blue Devils (21-3, 13-1 ACC) and Cardinal (16-9, 8-6 ACC) tip off at 4 p.m., with the game broadcast live on ABC.
- Dave O'Brien, Dick Vitale and Cory Alexander will call the action on ABC. David Shumate and John Roth team up for the broadcast on the Blue Devil Sports Network.
- Dick Vitale returns to Cameron Indoor Stadium as a member of the ABC broadcast team.
- Stanford leads the series with Duke, 2-1. The Cardinal won the first two games of the series, while the Blue Devils were victorious in the last meeting, 70-59, on Nov. 22, 2014.
- Saturday is Stanford's first game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
- The Blue Devils lead the country in scoring margin (+19.6) and rank fifth in the nation in scoring defense (60.4), seventh in field goal percentage defense (.384), 10th in assist-to-turnover ratio (+1.65), 16th in rebound margin (+7.8), 18th in effective field goal percentage (.565), 25th in three-pointers per game (10.0) and 33rd in assists per game (16.5) - all top marks in the ACC.
- Duke is the only team in the country ranked among the top-five in both offensive (5th) and defensive efficiency (3rd), according to KenPom.
- Duke is the only Division I team to score 80 points or more per game (80.0) and hold its opponents to fewer than 61 points per game (60.4).
- Tyrese Proctor has averaged 18.5 points in Duke's last four games, while shooting 27-of-52 (.500) from the field, including 13-of-29 (.448) from three-point range.
- Cooper Flagg, who turned 18 years old on Dec. 21, tops Duke in points (475), rebounds (182), assists (95), steals (38) and blocked shots (29).
- Flagg ranks among the ACC's top-10 in four of the five major statistical categories - scoring (3rd), rebounding (8th), assists (8th) and blocks (8th), and is 11th in steals.
- In the last seven games, Sion James has distributed 26 assists to just five turnovers, a 5.2 assist-to-turnover ratio. James ranks third in the ACC in that category (2.71).
- Khaman Maluach recorded his fourth double-double of the season with 10 points and 12 rebounds versus California on Wednesday night.
- Maliq Brown leads the Blue Devils with 115 deflections (8 vs. UNC; 9 at Syracuse; 9 at Clemson), an average of 6.1 per game, and is second on the squad with 30 steals.
- No. 3 Duke led wire-to-wire in a 78-57 victory over California on Wednesday, Feb. 12.
- The Blue Devils (21-3, 13-1 ACC) raced out to a 38-23 first-half lead and held California (12-13, 5-9 ACC) to just 57 points on 20-of-57 (.351) shooting to secure the 21-point victory.
- Cooper Flagg scored a game-high 27 points and Khaman Maluach secured his fourth double-double of the season with 10 points and 12 rebounds.
- Tyrese Proctor scored double-digits for the fourth consecutive game, pouring in 18 points, highlighted by a 3-of-6 (.500) performance from beyond the arc.
- Flagg, Maluach and Sion James led the team with three assists, and Flagg swiped a game-high three steals.
- Head coach Jon Scheyer secured his 75th victory as head coach of the program and is now 75-21 (.781) in his coaching career, including a 45-3 (.938) record at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
- Duke won the rebounding battle, 43-31, and has finished with a positive margin on the glass in all but six games this season.
- With the win, Duke improved to 310-93 (.769) in ACC regular-season games when ranked as a top-five team in the country.
- California entered the game averaging 74.8 points per game and 42.2 percent shooting from the field, but was held to just 57 points on 20-of-57 (.351) shooting by the Blue Devils' defensive unit.
- The Blue Devils finished the game with 12 forced turnovers, their sixth consecutive game with double-digit opponent giveaways.
- For the 13th time this season, Duke finished with a double-digit advantage for points in the paint, outscoring Cal, 30-20, in the category.
- Duke is once again one of the top defenses in the country.
- KenPom ranks the Blue Devils as the third-best defense in the nation with an adjusted defense efficiency rating of 90.3 (as of Feb. 13).
- This season, Duke ranks fifth in the nation in scoring defense (60.4) and eighth in field goal percentage defense (.384) - both top marks in the ACC.
- Based on EvanMiya's Defensive Bayesian Performance Rating, Duke has six of the top 13 defenders in the ACC: Cooper Flagg (1st), Maliq Brown (3rd), Kon Knueppel (6th), Khaman Maluach (7th), Sion James (11th) and Tyrese Proctor (13th). Flagg ranks as the No. 1 defender in the nation with a rating of 4.42.
- Brown leads Duke with 115 deflections, an average of 6.1 per game, including eight against North Carolina, nine at Syracuse and nine at Clemson, while Flagg is second on the team with 74 deflections.
- The Blue Devils have forced two shot clock violations in three consecutive games. Duke opponents have committed 26 shot clock violations on the season, compared to just five by the Blue Devils.
- Last season, the 2023-24 Blue Devils finished the season 16th in the nation in defense efficiency (95.2), and ranked 28th in the nation in scoring defense, holding opponents to just 66.3 points per game.
- In 2022-23, Jon Scheyer's first season as head coach, Duke finished the season 16th in the nation in defense efficiency (93.9), and ranked 24th in three-point percentage defense (.305), 27th in field goal percentage defense (.406) and 30th in scoring defense (63.6).
- Duke freshman Cooper Flagg, the No. 1-ranked prospect in the 2024 recruiting class, secured a spot on the 2024-25 Associated Press preseason All-America Team.
- The 6-9 guard/forward was also announced as the Preseason ACC Rookie of the Year and named to the Preseason All-ACC First Team, as chosen by a select media panel.
- Flagg collected 18 points, seven rebounds, five assists and three steals in the season-opener against Maine to become the first freshman in Duke history to have at least 10 points, five rebounds, five assists and three steals in their debut.
- Flagg was the first Duke player in the last 40 years to amass 50+ points, 25+ rebounds and 10+ assists in his first three career games, per ESPN.
- Flagg was voted as the ACC Men's Basketball Player and Rookie of the Week on Nov. 25, becoming the first player to earn both honors in the same week since Feb. 3, 2020, when Duke's Vernon Carey, Jr., accomplished the same feat.
- Flagg has posted six double-doubles this season, including four with 20 points or more and two of those against ranked opponents, collecting 26 points and 11 rebounds versus No. 19 Kentucky and 22 points and 11 caroms against No. 2 Auburn.
- Flagg became the only 17-year-old in NCAA history to register multiple 20-point double-doubles, according to Real Sports.
- In Duke's four top-25 matchups, Flagg averaged 21.3 points, 8.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 1.8 blocks and 1.3 steals per game.
- After registering a pair of 20-point double-doubles without committing a turnover against No. 2 Auburn and at Louisville, Flagg was declared the Associated Press and Lute Olson National Player of the Week and the ACC Rookie of the Week (Dec. 9).
- Flagg is just the sixth player in Duke history to score at least 200 points and grab at least 100 rebounds within Duke's first 13 games of the respective season, joining Jabari Parker (278 points/104 rebounds in 2013-14), Marvin Bagley III (274/142 in 2017-18), Zion Williamson (263/123 in 2018-19), Jahill Okafor (253/113 in 2014-15) and Vernon Carey Jr. (233/117 in 2019-20).
- Flagg broke the Duke and ACC freshman single-game scoring records with 42 points versus Notre Dame (Jan. 11), becoming the youngest player in NCAA history to have a 40-point game, according to Real Sports.
- On Jan. 13, Flagg became the first player in ACC history to sweep the conference weekly awards (player and rookie of the week) three times. He is the fifth player in the history of the league to sweep the conference's weekly awards multiple times in a season, joining four former Blue Devils - Vernon Carey Jr. (2019-20), Zion Williamson (2018-19), Marvin Bagley III (2017-18) and Jabari Parker (2013-14), who each did so twice.
- The freshman achieved a perfect 4.0 grade point average during the fall 2024 semester.
- Flagg has been voted as the ACC Rookie of the Week nine times (Nov. 18, Nov. 25, Dec. 9, Dec. 23, Jan. 6, Jan. 13, Jan. 20, Jan. 27, Feb. 3) and the ACC Player of the Week four times (Nov. 25, Jan. 6, Jan. 13, Feb. 3).
- Flagg, who turned 18 years old on Dec. 21, currently leads Duke in points (475), rebounds (182), assists (95), steals (38) and blocked shots (29).
- Flagg ranks among the ACC's top-10 in four of the five major statistical categories - scoring (3rd), rebounding (8th), assists (8th) and blocks (8th), and ranks 11th in steals.
- Flagg currently leads the KenPom Player of the Year Standings with a 2.625 rating, ahead of Auburn's Johni Broome (2.279) and Purdue's Braden Smith (1.557).
- Flagg also tops the EvanMiya's Defensive Bayesian Performance Rating, measuring a player's overall value to his team when he is on the floor, as the No. 1 defender in the nation with a rating of 4.42.
- Duke has a record of 18-9 on Feb. 15.
- The Blue Devils have won all 10 games played in Durham on this date, including an 8-0 record at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
- Duke has won four straight contests on Feb. 15.
- The Blue Devils last played on this date in 2022, a 76-74 home victory over Wake Forest.
- The weekly television show, "Duke All-Access with Jon Scheyer," is back for its third season in 2024-25.
- The 30-minute show features Jon Scheyer and his Blue Devils team. Presented in magazine format and produced by John Roth, the show also includes informative player features and behind-the-scenes access to the Duke program.
- A production of Blue Devil Sports Properties from LEARFIELD, the show airs locally on ABC-11 WTVD on Sundays at noon ET and is live streamed on ABC11.com Saturdays at 10 a.m. ET. It is also available regionally across the FanDuel Sports Network on Fridays at 5:30 p.m. ET; and on MASN Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. ET. It can also be viewed via the Duke Athletics YouTube Channel and archived on GoDuke.com.
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