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Duke (#16 AP/#15 USA Today) vs. USC
November 27, 1999 -- 2:30 pm (PT)
Arrowhead Pond -- Anaheim, Calif.
November 27, 1999 -- 2:30 pm (PT)
Arrowhead Pond -- Anaheim, Calif.
BLUE DEVILS MAKE FIRST EVER APPEARANCE IN WOODEN CLASSIC
Three of the nation's top 16 teams gather for the annual Wooden Classic
with the second game of the doubleheader featuring No. 16 Duke (2-2)
against host USC Saturday afternoon in Anaheim, Calif., at 2:30 pm local
time.
The game will mark the first time that Duke has played in the state of California since February of 1997 and will be the Blue Devils' first ever appearance in Anaheim or in the Wooden Classic.
The first game on Saturday will pit No. 3 Auburn against No. 9 Stanford, a team which earlier this season knocked off Duke in the Coaches vs. Cancer Ikon Classic.
The Blue Devils enter the Classic on a two-game winning streak after suffering back-to-back losses in Madison Square Garden to open the campaign.
LAST GAME
Duke stormed to its second straight win and evened its overall record
at 2-2 with a 99-52 victory over Columbia Tuesday night in Cameron
Indoor Stadium. It was the Blue Devils' 38th straight homecourt victory
which matched the ACC record and extended Duke's school mark.
Senior Chris Carrawell led six Blue Devil players in double-figures with 20 points while also adding five rebounds, four assists and two blocked shots. Duke opened a 19-11 lead and then went on a crushing 19-0 run to open a 38-11 lead with 6:48 to play in the first half and never looked back
Continuing to improve is freshman Carlos Boozer who had 16 points, five rebounds and five assists in his second career start. Duke shot 58.9 percent from the field while limiting the Lions to just 1-of-13 shots from three-point range.
MORE ABOUT DUKE
Duke returns two starters and five lettermen from last year's national
runnerup squad which compiled an NCAA record-tying 37 wins against just
two losses and swept through the ACC with a perfect 16-0 mark.
Senior Chris Carrawell and junior Shane Battier return as starters and are both listed as preseason candidates for the Wooden Award - given to the nation's most outstanding player at the conclusion of the season.
Carrawell has 65 career starts and is just 47 points shy of becoming Duke's 45th player to score 1,000 career points. The versatile 6-6 performer recorded a career-high 28 points against Stanford and added seven rebounds. He had his second 20-point performance of the season against Columbia. He leads the team in rebounding (6.8), field goal percentage (53.8) and free throw percentage (85.7).
Battier earned the 1999 National Defensive Player of the Year honor and has already started his effort to repeat with nine steals and and a team-high eight blocked shots. He also has averaged 15.5 points and 5.5 rebounds a game.
Nate James had a career-high 15 points against Army while freshmen Jason Williams and Carlos Boozer round out the starting lineup.
Boozer has averaged 15.5 points and 6.5 rebounds in the last two games and has made 12 of his last 17 shots.
Two more freshmen - Casey Sanders and Mike Dunleavy - have been the first off the bench. Dunleavy is averaging nine points a game.
COVERING THE GAME
DUKE HEAD COACH MIKE KRZYZEWSKI
The numbers don't tell the whole story of his program at Duke, but
nonetheless, they are impressive: 471 total wins, 220 weeks in the Top
25, 115 weeks in the Top 10 (including the 43 of the last 45 polls), 51
weeks ranked #1 in the country (including three times in the final
regular season polls in 1986, 1992 and 1999), 48 NCAA Tournament wins,
15 NCAA Tournament bids, eight Final Fours in the last 14 years, seven
regular season ACC championships, six NCAA championship game
appearances, four ACC tournament titles and the only back-to-back
national championships in the past quarter century of college basketball
in 1991-92.
Coach K's overall career record stands at 544-216 (.716). He
began the year with 542 wins which was the fifth highest total in NCAA
history for a coach after 24 seasons. He became just the 10th coach in
NCAA history to attain his 500th career victory in his 23rd season as a
college coach.
The Chicago native began his coaching career at Army in 1975-76
where he led the Cadets to an NIT appearance. He took over atDuke prior
to the 1980-81 season and has accumulated a 471-157 record (.750) in 20
seasons.
Coach K was the President of the National Association of Basketball
Coaches (NABC) in 1998-99 and is also involved with several community
groups, including the Duke Children's Hospital and nationally with the
Jimmy V Foundation. He underwent hip replacement surgery on April 4,
1999 and spent the spring and early summer months rehabilitating from
the surgery.
The six-time National Coach of the Year and five-time ACC Coach of the
Year has a 48-13 all-time record in the NCAA Tournament. Coach K is the
winningest active coach in the Tournament and is second behind only Dean
Smith for most NCAA Tournament wins by any coach in history.
Coach K owns a 1-0 record against USC.
DUKE/USC - THE SERIES
The only home-and-home series came in 1977 and 1978 with each side
winning on their homecourt.
Saturday's game will mark Duke's first ever apperance in the Arrowhead
Pond of Anaheim.
NATIONAL RANKINGS
Duke has been ranked in the Top 25 for 57 consecutive polls. During
Mike Krzyzewski's career at Duke, the Blue Devils have spent a total of
219 weeks ranked in the AP Top 25 with 115 of those weeks in the Top 10.
The Blue Devils finished the 1998-99 season on top of the national
rankings for the first time since 1992. In fact, it was just the third
time in school history that Duke has finished No. 1 in the final poll,
joining the 1986 and 1992 squads.
Duke finished in the Top 10 in the final AP poll seven times in the
1990's, including eighth in 1997, third in 1998 and first in 1999.
Duke is 0-2 against Top 25 teams in 1999-2000.
BLUE REIGN - THE 1990s & FOREVER
In the 1990's, Duke owned the third highest total of wins with 271
victories. Duke has also climbed into fourth place for the most
all-time wins in NCAA history. Duke has moved five ahead of St. John's
with 1,587 all-time victories while the Red Storm sport 1,582.
ACC DOMINATION
The Blue Devils are just the fourth school to win three or more
straight outright ACC regular season titles. The others are Duke
(1963-66) and North Carolina (1967-69 and 1976-78).
Duke has won 22 straight ACC regular season games and owns a 41-3
record in the last 44 such games. The only three losses were to Top 10
ranked opponents. The Blue Devils have also won 32 of its last 33 ACC
regular season games.
STARTING LINEUP
No Player PPG RPG APG
23 Chris Carrawell 18.5 6.8 3.0
(6-6, 215, Jr., St. Louis, Mo.)
31 Shane Battier 15.5 5.5 2.0
(6-8, 215, Jr., Birmingham, Mich.)
4 Carlos Boozer 9.0 4.8 2.5
(6-9, 260, Fr., Juneau, Ak.)
14 Nate James 9.0 4.5 1.8
(6-6, 205, Jr., Washington, D.C.)
22 Jason Williams 13.8 5.5 5.0
(6-2, 190, Fr., Plainfield, N.J.)
KEY RESERVES
34 Mike Dunleavy 9.0 3.3 1.5
(6-7, 200, Fr., Lake Oswego, Ore.)
3 Nick Horvath 3.5 3.5 0.5
(6-10, 215, Fr., Arden Hills, Minn.)
20 Casey Sanders 3.3 3.7 0.0
(6-11, 205, Fr., Tampa, Fla.)
41 Matt Christensen 2.8 4.8 0.5
(6-10, 240, So., Belmont, Mass.)
RADIO: The 30-station Duke Radio Network spans throughout the Southeast
with WDNC (620 AM) serving as the flagship station. (Bob Harris, pbp;
John Roth, color; Matthew Lawrence, sidelines).
TV: locally on KCAL-TV.
GoDUKE.com: Live cybercast with in-game statistics, photos, and audio.
Duke's all-time winningest coach and certainly one of the leading
ambassadors of college basketball, Mike Krzyzewski, is in his 20th
season at the helm of the program that he has guided to unparalleled
success during his career.
The Blue Devils and Trojans have played four previous times with each
school winning twice. The last meeting came on December 29, 1984 at the
Trojan-Bud Light Classic when No. 2-ranked Duke took a 75-73 decision.
The win upped the Blue Devils' record to 9-0 at that point of the
1984-85 campaign.
Duke opened the 1999-2000 season with a streak of 43 straight weeks
ranked in the Associated Press Top 10 which was the longest active
streak in the country. That streak was snapped in the first week when
Duke lost its first two contests and fell to No. 18.
National Rankings
Date AP USA Today
Preseason #10 #10
Nov. 15 #18 n/a
Nov. 22 #16 #15
Over the past 15 years, the Blue Devils have dominated opponents
outside the ACC by a wide margin. In that span, Duke owns a 235-32
record (88.0 percent) against non-conference teams, including the NCAA
Tournament.
Duke has dominated ACC regular season play over the last three seasons,
topping it with an unprecedented 16-0 record with an average winning
margin of 24.3 points in 1998-99.
FINAL ACC STANDINGS IN THE 1990s
No. School W L Pct
1. Duke 109 47 .699
2. North Carolina 108 48 .692
3. Wake Forest 86 70 .551
4. Maryland 80 76 .513
5. Georgia Tech 73 83 .468
6. Virginia 69 87 .442
7. Florida State 56 72 .438
8. Clemson 60 96 .385
9. N.C. State 49 107 .314
ACC REGULAR SEASON TITLES IN THE 1990s
No. School Outright Share Total
1. Duke 6 0 6
2. North Carolina 1 1 2
3. Clemson 1 0 1
Georgia Tech 1 0 1
Maryland 0 1 1
Virginia 0 1 1
Wake Forest 0 1 1
CAMERON ADVANTAGE
The Blue Devils have had a great deal of success in famed Cameron
Indoor Stadium, winning over 80 percent of their games all-time. The
1999-2000 season marks the 60th Anniversary of playing in Cameron. Duke
is in a current school record and ACC record-tying 38-game winning
streak in Cameron. The streak dates back to an 81-69 loss to then-No. 2
Wake Forest on January 11, 1997.
Duke's all-time record in Cameron is 596-135 for an 81.5 win percentage in the building which opened January 6, 1940. The 596 wins is the most in the ACC and sixth-highest total in the country on a current home court. The Blue Devils are coming off the most successful decade in Cameron history with an incredible 133-17 record in the 1990's. Under Coach K, Duke owns a 238-42 record for an 85.0 winning percentage since 1980-81. Duke has also won 122 of its last 124 games against non-conference opponents in Cameron. During the stretch, the Blue Devils have reached the 100-point mark 43 times, including the 1999-2000 season opener against Army.
The only two losses to non-conference teams in Cameron since 1983 have come against Illinois on December 2, 1995, and Michigan on December 8, 1996.
DUKE STARTS WITH "D"
The Blue Devils will look to continue a long-standing tradition of
outstanding team defense in 1999-2000 after two straight seasons of
inspired efforts on the court.
Duke's field goal percentage defense of 39.1 in 1998-99 was the lowest in the Coach K era and the best at Duke since the 1959-60 squad limited opponents to 38.3 percent shooting from the field.
THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE (AND MUCH MORE) - SHANE BATTIER
Charges taken have become his specialty for in the past two seasons he
has set the school record with 29 in 1997-98 and 36 in 1998-99.
On the offensive side of the ball, Battier developed his game
tremendously in 1998-99. The efforts were topped with a 27-point
explosion versus Maryland in which he converted 10-of-13 shots from the
field, including 4-of-4 from three-point range.
This year he is averaging 15.5 points per game while grabbing 5.5
rebounds. He has also connected on 11-of-23 three-pointers for a
team-high 47.8 percent.
REJECTION DEFENSE
He has opened the 1999-2000 season with two blocked shots in each of the
first four games. Against Connecticut he became the ninth player in
school history to record his 100th career blocked shot.
He is currently tied with Mark Alarie (1983-86) for seventh place and is
two shy of Antonio Lang (1991-94) for sixth place all-time at Duke.
ROSTER UPDATE
COACH K A GRANDFATHER
Joey weighed in at 10 pounds, five ounces and measured 21 inches long
with a full head of black hair. Contrary to rumors, he has not begun to
dribble a basketball or watch tape with his grandfather.
Coach K and his wife, Mickie, have three daughters and now a grandson.
His middle daughter, Lindy, is a graduate student at nearby Pepperdine.
DUKE'S DEFENSIVE NUMBERS
Category 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Opp. FG Pct. 46.7 44.2 41.5 43.9 43.7 42.2 41.1 39.1 38.3
Opp. 3pt FG Pct. 38.2 28.9 29.7 38.6 33.5 34.0 30.5 30.1 33.3
Opp. Points/G 72.6 71.2 67.3 73.7 69.8 66.2 64.1 67.2 61.3
Blocks/Game 3.9 5.0 6.0 4.4 3.6 4.0 5.1 6.3 5.8
Steals/Game 8.2 8.4 7.1 5.7 6.0 8.5 9.4 8.9 10.5
Opp. TO/Game 17.8 17.9 15.1 13.6 16.0 18.2 19.9 17.7 19.8
Coach K has called Shane Battier one of the most fundamentally sound
defensive players he has ever had in his program and for good reason.
The Birmingham, Mich., junior was named the National Defensive Player of
the Year by the NABC in 1999 after setting the school record for most
charges taken and led the team with 65 steals and recorded 43 blocked
shots.
Shane Battier has quickly moved up Duke's all-time rejection list,
standing in a seventh place tie with 104 career rejections after
swatting away 43 shots in 1998-99, the second highest figure on the
team.
Freshman walk-on Andy Borman is a member of Duke's No. 1-ranked men's
soccer squad and thus has not joined the team as of yet. He and the
Blue Devils are the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and will play in
the NCAA Sweet 16 next Sunday against Santa Clara.
Coach K's oldest daughter, Debbie Savarino, gave birth to a beautiful
baby boy, Joey Savarino, Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 2:04 am in the Duke Medical
Center.
1999-2000 SCHEDULE & RESULTS
Date Opponent W/L Score
11/11 #Stanford -ot- (10/13) L 79-80
11/12 #Connecticut (10/1) L 66-71
11/20 ARMY (18/-) W 100-42
11/23 COLUMBIA (16/-) W 99-52
11/27 %USC 5:30
11/30 ^Illinois ESPN 9:00
12/4 DePAUL ESPN 7:00
12/11 at Michigan CBS 4:00
12/19 NORTH CAROLINA A&T 1:00
12/21 DAVIDSON RJ 8:00
1/2 WILLIAM & MARY HTS/FSS 1:00
1/5 at Virginia ESPN 9:00
1/9 at Maryland CBS 1:00/4:00
1/12 GEORGIA TECH ESPN 7:00
1/16 at Florida State RJ 4:00
1/19 N.C. STATE ESPN 7:00
1/22 at Wake Forest CBS 12:00
1/29 CLEMSON RJ 4:00
2/3 at North Carolina RJ/espn2 9:00
2/5 VIRGINIA ABC 3:00
2/9 MARYLAND RJ 9:00
2/12 at Georgia Tech RJ/espn2 4:00
2/16 FLORIDA STATE ESPN 9:00
2/19 at N.C. State ABC 1:30
2/22 WAKE FOREST RJ 8:00
2/26 ST. JOHN'S CBS 4:00
3/1 at Clemson ESPN 7:00
3/4 NORTH CAROLINA ABC 3:30
3/9/12 +ACC Tournament RJ/ESPN TBA
#Coaches vs. Cancer Classic, New York, N.Y.
%Wooden Classic, Anaheim,
Calif.
^ACC/Big 10 Challenge, Chicago, Ill.
+ACC Tournament,
Charlotte, N.C.
(Duke's AP ranking/Opponent's AP ranking)
