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Thursday, March 9
Greensboro, N.C.
2:30 p.m.
Duke University
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Pitt
Blue Devils Ready for ACC Tournament Quarterfinals
3/7/2023 7:51:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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- With the program's ACC-leading 15th top-five finish in the last 16 years and 37th in the last 40 seasons, No. 21 Duke faces either Pitt or Georgia Tech in the ACC quarterfinals Thursday.
- Dave O'Brien and Cory Alexander have the call for ESPN. Fans can also tune in to the Blue Devils Sports Network from LEARFIELD, with David Shumate and John Roth on the call, or to ESPN Radio where Wes Durham and Malcom Huckaby are set to broadcast the game. Â
- The Blue Devils are the winningest ACC Tournament team all-time with more wins (107), titles (21) and a better winning percentage (.699) than any team in the league.
- Duke is 99-40 (.712) all-time at the Greensboro Coliseum, including 41-18 (.695) in the 28 previous ACC Tournaments with eight titles (1978, 1980, 1986, 1988, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2011).
- A finalist for the Joe B. Hall Award for best first-year coach, Jon Scheyer holds the program record for wins in a debut season and is the ACC's first first-year coach to go unbeaten at home.
- Duke's six-game win streak -- just the eighth streak of six or longer to end a regular season in Duke's ACC era -- is a season long and the second longest active in power conferences.
- Duke has held 27 of 31 opponents below their season scoring average (23-4 in those games) and the Blue Devils are second in the conference in scoring defense (63.8), second in three-point field goal defense (.306) and second in field goal defense (.409).
- Kyle Filipowski is Duke's ACC-leading 14th Rookie of the Year and also earned a spot on the All-ACC Second Team. He was an All-Freshman pick with Dereck Lively II and Tyrese Proctor. Lively was an All-Defense honoree, while Jeremy Roach was honorable mention All-ACC.
- Filipowski enters the postseason as the nation's only freshman and one just nine power conference players nationally averaging at least 15 points and nine rebounds.
- An All-Defense pick, Lively is third nationally and leads the ACC in block percentage (13.5) and is sixth nationally in blocks per 40 minutes (4.95), while freshmen Mark Mitchell and Tyrese Proctor are in the 94th and 93rd percentile, respectively, on defense.
- Mitchell is averaging 13.0 points, 5.3 rebounds and 18-of-30 (.600) from the field and 13-of-15 (.867) over Duke's last four games. He and Filipowski have started every game.
- The balanced Blue Devils, who have had four or more starters score in double figures in four straight games, lead the ACC in bench scoring at 19.4 points per game.
- Duke is 6-1 in games decided by four points or fewer and 7-2 in games decided by five or less.
- Duke is 15-4 when playing on March 9 and has won five of its last seven and 12 of its last 15 on this date.
- The Blue Devils last played on this date in 2021 -- an 86-51 win over Boston College in an ACC Tournament first round game in Greensboro.
- Duke is 6-0 in ACC Tournament games at the Greensboro Coliseum on this date.
- The Panthers are the No. 5-seed in the ACC Tournament after finishing the regular season at 21-10 overall and tied with Duke at 14-6 in the ACC standings.
- Pitt is the only team that Duke has not faced in the ACCT.
- Duke took the regular-season meeting, 77-69, in Durham on Jan. 11 -- a game in which the Blue Devils trailed by 11 at halftime (a deficit which grew to 12 in the second half) -- marking the team's largest halftime deficit overcome in a win since the 2017-18 season.
- Duke out-rebounded Pitt, 51-28, in the game as freshman Kyle Filipowski had a monster night with 28 points and 15 rebounds. Graduate Ryan Young had seven points and 10 boards.
- ACC Coach of the Year Jeff Capel is in his fifth year at Pitt. Â Capel is a former Duke player and assistant coach, spending seven seasons on Mike Krzyzewski's staff (2011-18), including his final four seasons as associate head coach.
- A four-year starter for the Blue Devils from 1993-97, Capel was a two-time team captain. He was part of 83 wins and helped the program to 1994 NCAA title game.
- Duke defeated Georgia Tech, 86-43, on Jan. 28 in Atlanta in the teams' only meeting this season.
- Duke's 43-point win stands as the second-largest ACC road win in school history.
- It was just the third 40-point ACC road win in school history along with a 46-point win at Virginia, 100-54, on Feb. 11, 1999 and a 42-point win at Wake Forest, 113-71, on Feb. 28, 1967.
- The 43 points allowed were Duke's fewest allowed to an ACC opponent since a 57-43 win at Notre Dame on Jan. 31, 2022
- The Blue Devils have won nine of the last 10 over the Yellow Jackets and lead the all-time series, 77-24.
- Duke is 7-3 all-time in the ACC Tournament vs. Georgia Tech, including 4-0 in Greensboro. Duke defeated GT, 68-67, in the 1986 title game and 65-61 in the 2010 title game.
- The 2010 title game was the last time Duke and Georgia Tech met in the ACC Tournament.
- Duke has won 52 of its last 63 tournament games and is 47-10 in this century (.825).
- Duke's five straight titles (1999 to 2003) and its nine consecutive title game appearances (1998 to 2006) are each ACC records.
- Duke's 20 Tournament MVPs are the most in league history.
- Duke has won two of the last five ACC Tournaments that have been completed -- becoming the first team to win four games in four days to capture the 2017 crown in Brooklyn and winning in 2019 in Charlotte behind ACC Player of the Year and Tournament MVP Zion Williamson, who was the first freshman in ACC history to achieve both in the same season and the 11th Blue Devil all-time to do so.
- Duke reached the title game in 2022, its 34th title game appearance.
- Entering his first ACC Tournament as a head coach, Jon Scheyer was 7-2 in the event as a player -- finishing 6-0 over his final two seasons with titles in 2009 and 2010 -- and was 16-5 as a Duke assistant with titles in 2017 and 2019.
- The program's 99 wins at the Greensboro Coliseum place it behind only Duke's current home (Cameron Indoor Stadium) and former homes (Card Gym and Duke Gym) as the winningest venue for the Blue Devils.
- Duke is 41-18 all-time in ACC Tournament games at Greensboro Coliseum where it has claimed eight of its ACC-leading 21 crowns, including three consecutive in 2016, 2010 and 2011.
- Duke's other titles in Greensboro came in 1978, 1980, 1986, 1988 and 2003.
- In 2020 in Greensboro, Duke was the 4-seed, but the tournament was canceled before the quarterfinal round due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- A year later in Greensboro, Duke won a pair of games to advance to the quarterfinal round before having to withdraw from the tournament due to the University's COVID-19 protocols.
- Duke finished its first regular season under head coach Jon Scheyer with a 16-0 home record, as Scheyer extended the ACC record for longest home court winning streak by a first-year head coach. The previous mark of 12 was set by North Carolina's Hubert Davis last season. Davis' streak was snapped by Duke's 87-67 win on Feb. 5, 2022.
- A finalist for the Joe B. Hall Coach of the Year Award presented to the nation's best first-year head coach, Scheyer is the ACC's first first-year head coach to go undefeated at home all-time and just the sixth in power conferences to do so since at least 1996-97.
- Posting a .700 winning percentage in ACC play (14-6), Scheyer became just the fifth first-year ACC coach to go .500 or better in ACC play and just the 19th all-time to go .500 or better.
- Entering his first ACC Tournament as a head coach, Scheyer was 7-2 in the event as a player -- finishing 6-0 over his final two seasons with titles in 2009 and 2010 -- and was 16-5 in the Tournament as a Duke assistant with titles in 2017 and 2019.
- Kyle Filipowski took home the program's league-leading 14th ACC Rookie of the Year honor and also earned a spot on the All-ACC Second Team.
- Junior Jeremy Roach garnered Honorable Mention All-ACC recognition, while Filipowski, Tyrese Proctor and Dereck Lively II were each tapped to the ACC All-Freshman Team.
- Lively also earned one of the five spots on the league's All-Defensive Team.
- Duke now boasts 154 All-ACC selections all-time (first, second and third teamers), leading the league ahead of North Carolina (153) and NC State (87).
- The Blue Devils have had at least one All-ACC player in every season since 1975.
- Filipowski is Duke's second consecutive ACC Rookie of the Year, the ninth in the last 12 years and the program's ACC-record 14th all-time (leading Georgia Tech's 11 and North Carolina's nine).
- Lively is Duke's 31st All-Defensive honoree and extends the Blue Devils' streak of at least one on the All-Defensive Team to four straight years.
- The trio of All-Freshman honorees extends the Blue Devils' conference lead to 37 selections all-time and at least one in 12 consecutive seasons.
- Filipowski was a unanimous selection to the All-Freshman Team with 75 votes and received 68 of the 75 votes as the Rookie of the Year. Of the 28 all-time unanimous picks to the All-Freshman Team, he is the 11th Blue Devil.
- Duke is second in the ACC and 31st nationally in scoring defense, yielding just 63.8 points per game -- 22 teams have been held below 70 points and 11 have failed to score more than 60.
- The tallest team in the nation per KenPom with an average height of 79.3", Duke has used its length on the perimeter and height at the rim to enter the postseason as one of just two teams nationally in the NCAA's top 35 for scoring defense (31st), field goal defense (34th), three-point defense (30th) and blocked shots (32nd) -- Houston is the other.
- Ten times a team scored a then-season low for points, including holding Iowa to 62, Xavier to 64 (20 points below its average), Miami to 66 (12 off its scoring average), Georgia Tech to 43 and North Carolina to 57 twice (21 off its average).
- Duke's scoring defense of 63.8 points in the regular season marks the program's sixth best in the AP Poll era (since 1950-51), and the best in the regular season since head coach Jon Scheyer's senior year of 2009-10 (61.8). Scheyer was a freshman in 2006-07, a team that allowed the fewest points in the regular season since 1950-51.
- Duke is out-dunking the opposition 103-52, led by Dereck Lively II's 50 and Mark Mitchell's 24 slams.
- Lively is 64-of-100 (.640) from the field with 50 of his 64 career field goals being dunks.
- Lively's 50 dunks are seventh most by a Duke freshman in a single season.
- Duke has connected on at least one three-pointer in 1,184 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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