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DURHAM, N.C. - Duke, ranked ninth in the AP poll and eighth in the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll, faces unranked Davidson on Saturday at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Tip-off is set for 7:06 p.m. with Fox Sports Net South televising the contest.

The Blue Devils are coming off their first loss of the season, a 73-62 defeat to No. 13 Marquette in the championship game of the College Basketball Experience Classic on Tuesday, Nov. 21.

Sophomore Josh McRoberts paced Duke with 15 points, eight rebounds, four assists and two blocked shots in the loss to the Golden Eagles. Junior DeMarcus Nelson added 13 points, five rebounds and two assists in the game.

Davidson is coming off a 99-69 win over Colby College on Tuesday. Stephen Curry paced the Wildcats with 29 points, while Jason Richards added 20 points and 16 assists. Boris Meno grabbed a game-high 18 rebounds for Davidson as well. Curry, the son of 16-year NBA vetern Dell Curry, set a new school record for three-pointers attempted and made, hitting 9 of his 20 attempts.  As a club, Davidson broke the school and Southern Conference mark for attempts from behind the three-point arc with 52.

Duke enters Saturday’s game with the third longest non-conference home win streak in the country. The Blue Devils have won 43 straight non-conference home tilts and 173 of the last 176 non-conference home games. Illinois has the top mark in the country with 51 straight home non-conference wins. Oklahoma is second with 48 straight victories.

Storylines

• Tonight’s game marks Duke’s third contest versus a Southern Conference opponent this season (Georgia Southern, Nov. 13 & UNC Greensboro, Nov. 16). The Blue Devils are 135-24 overall against teams currently in the Southern Conference and 40-2 against the SoCon under Mike Krzyzewski. Duke has won 40 straight against SoCon opponents (last loss was 75-73 versus Davidson on Dec. 29, 1981).
• Duke leads the all-time series with Davidson, 84-17. The Blue Devils hold a 29-1 home record against the Wildcats, including a 19-1 mark at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke has won 19 consecutive versus Davidson with 12 of those wins coming at home.
• The Blue Devils were members of the Southern Conference from 1928-53. In fact, Duke won five Southern Conference Tournament titles before becoming a charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953-54. Eddie Cameron led the Blue Devils to SoCon championships in 1938, 1941 and 1942, while Gerry Gerard coached Duke to titles in 1944 and 1946.
• Sophomore Josh McRoberts is among the most versatile big men in the country. The 6-10, 240-pound forward is averaging 10.8 points, 6.2 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 2.6 blocks per game. In Duke’s last outing, McRoberts led the team in points (15), rebounds (8), assists (4) and blocks (2). In Duke’s 75-48 win over UNC Greensboro on Nov. 16, he blocked a career-high five shots and had a career-best seven assists, marking just the fourth time in school history a player has recorded five or more assists and blocks in the same game. McRoberts joined Mike Gminski, Danny Ferry and Shane Battier as the only players to accomplish the feat.
• Duke has shot over 50.0 percent from the field in four of five games this season. Five players (DeMarcus Nelson, Josh McRoberts, Lance Thomas, Brian Zoubek & David McClure) are shooting 48.0 percent or better from the field, including three players (Thomas, Zoubek & McClure) shooting over 60.0 percent from the field on the year. As a team, the Blue Devils are shooting 51.6 percent (128-of-248) from the floor.
• The Blue Devils have outrebounded each of their first five opponents, including an impressive 30-10 rebound margin in a win over Air Force. Duke ranks fourth in the ACC with a +10.8 rebound margin. Last season, the Blue Devils were 10th in the conference with a -2.7 rebound margin. The 10 opponent rebounds in the win over Air Force were the fewest in school history.
• Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski is two wins shy of moving into a 10th place tie with Ed Diddle for career coaching victories. Krzyzewski now has 757 career wins, including 684 wins at Duke (seventh most by a coach at one school).
  Junior DeMarcus Nelson was named to the CBE Classic All-Tournament team after averaging 15.8 points, 5.5 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.8 steals in four games. Nelson, the CBE Classic Durham Regional MVP, shot 22-of-39 (56.4 pct.) from the field, including 7-of-14 (50.0 pct.) from three-point distance in CBE Classic action. He also set a new career high in the semifinals of the CBE Classic with 23 points in the win over Air Force.
• Through five games, Duke ranks last in the ACC in turnover margin (-2.00) and next to last in assist-to-turnover ratio (0:76:1). The Blue Devils enter the Davidson game with 90 turnovers and just 68 assists. Duke has finished the year with more turnover than assist just five times (1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 2002-03 & 2004-05) under Coach K.
• Longtime Blue Devil radio play-by-play man Bob Harris has missed the last three broadcasts while recovering from illness. Harris, the voice of the Blue Devils for 31 years, handles play-by-play duties for both basketball and football. He will call the Duke-North Carolina football game on Saturday and return to the mic for basketball games on Tuesday, Nov. 28. 
• Sophomore Jamal Boykin missed both games in Kansas City while suffering from flu-like symptoms. Boykin is averaging 1.3 points and 4.0 rebounds while playing 10 minutes per game this season.
• Seven different players (DeMarcus Nelson, Jon Scheyer, Josh McRoberts, Brian Zoubek, Lance Thomas, Gerald Henderson & David McClure)  have scored in double figures for the Blue Devils this season. Duke’s balanced offensive attack features five players (Nelson, McRoberts, Thomas, Scheyer & Zoubek) averaging 9.0 or more points per game.
• Duke ranks second in the ACC with 11 starts by freshmen (Georgia Tech is first with 15). Duke and Georgia Tech are tied for first in the conference with 20 combined starts from freshmen and sophomores.