DUKE NOTES
** Duke improves to 11-10 all-time in NCAA Tournament play
** Duke's 16 wins this season rank as the second-most in school history, trailing only the 17 victories earned by the 2005 squad ... The 16 victories also match the third-highest single-season total in ACC history, matching the total of North Carolina in 1991 ... Duke's 2005 club and Virginia's 2006 squad share the league standard with 17
** Duke has now won 11 straight games, the second-longest active streak in the nation behind Cornell's 15-game run
** Duke is now 39-7 over the past three seasons
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Zack Greer established a new Duke and ACC single-season record for goals with 64 ... Greer previously held both marks with a 57-goal effort during the 2005 campaign
** Greer's 64 goals this year rank as the fourth-highest single-season total in NCAA history, tied with Cornell's Mike French (1974 & 1975)
** Greer's seven goals rank as the second-most in NCAA quarterfinal history ... The seven goals are a Duke single-game record for NCAA Tournament play
** Greer's 10 points, on seven goals and three assists, are a career-high ... The 10 points increase his season total to 88 (64 goals & 24 assists), marking the fifth-best mark in conference history
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Matt Danowski extended his streak of consecutive games with at least one point to 40 ... The streak is the third-longest among active players nationally
** Danowski now has 19 points on six goals and 13 assists in two NCAA Tournament games this year ... That total ranks in a tie for eighth place for total points by an individual in a single tournament ... Danowski's 13 assists stand three shy of the NCAA Tournament record of 16 held by Tim Goldstein of Cornell (1987)
** Danowski matched his career-high of 10 points in a game and increased his season total to 91 points on 42 goals and 49 assists ... The 91 points are the third-highest single-season total in ACC history and rank as the second-best single-season total in Duke history ... Danowski owns the school mark with 92 total points in 2005 ? one shy of the league standard set by Ray Altman of Maryland in 1963
** Danowski's six assists on the day push his Duke career record to 124 ... the assist total ranks seventh in ACC history ... his 49 assists on the season match the fifth-best total in ACC history
** Danowski (19 points) and Greer (15 points) have a combined 34 points in the NCAA Tournament marking the sixth-highest total by two teammates ... Danowski and
Dan Flannery rank second on the chart with a combined 40 points during the 2005 tournament ... The overall record is held by Gary Gait (23) and Tom Marechek (20) of Syracuse in 1990
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Dan Loftus improved to 23-5 as Duke's starting goalkeeper
** North Carolina's 11 goals snap a string of 16 games that Duke had not allowed double figures in the scoring column
** The announced attendance of 10,438 marked the fourth-largest crowd in NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament quarterfinal history ... the record was set in 1999 at Hofstra with 12,289
** Prior to the Duke-North Carolina matchup, Delaware defeated UMBC by a 10-6 count to advance to the national semifinals, where the Blue Hens will meet Johns Hopkins next Saturday in Baltimore