For the final regular-season game in head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s Hall of Fame career, his No. 4 Duke Blue Devils host North Carolina on Saturday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke has claimed the outright ACC regular season title and heads to Brooklyn as the No. 1-seed for the New York Life ACC Tournament that begins Tuesday. Duke has a bye to Thursday’s quarterfinals. The ACC regular season title is the program’s 20th (13th under Coach K). Saturday is the 257th all-time meeting in the Duke-North Carolina series. Duke is 46-38 vs. UNC at Cameron Indoor Stadium and leads the series 50-46 overall in the Coach K era.
About Duke:
- Duke has won seven straight overall and finishes with an eight-game road winning streak — longest active by a power conference team and tied for the third longest ACC road winning streak in program history. Duke’s nine ACC road wins this season are a school record.
- Over the last five games, five different Blue Devils have led the team in scoring, including freshman Trevor Keels’ career-high 27 at Pitt on Tuesday. For the season, Duke has five players averaging double figures in points, led by freshman Paolo Banchero’s 16.9.
- Leading the ACC in both field goal defense (.410) and three-point defense (.299), the Blue Devils are the only power conference team leading their respective conference in each category.
- Duke is 27th nationally this season in defending the three-point line (.299), 55th in field goal defense (.410), 11th in blocked shots (5.5) and fifth in scoring margin (+15.3) — leads ACC in each category.
- Sophomore Mark Williams is the nation’s only player shooting better than .700 from the field and .700 at the free throw line (min. 100 FG attempts). His 75 dunks are the third most in a season at Duke.
- Over the last five games, five different Blue Devils have led the team in scoring, including freshman Trevor Keels’ career-high 27 at Pitt on Tuesday. For the season, Duke has five players averaging double figures in points, led by freshman Paolo Banchero’s 16.9.
- Banchero has logged consecutive 21-point games and his 11 20-point efforts are second among power conference freshmen nationally.
- Junior Wendell Moore Jr., is one of the nation’s premier perimeter defenders, regularly drawing the opponent’s best offensive match up. This season, opponents are shooting just .341 from the field and .250 from three-point range with Moore as the primary defender.
About UNC:
- The Tar Heels have won 10 of their last 12 games and are 22-8 overall, 14-5 in the ACC. UNC has won four straight, which matches its longest conference win streak of the season. The Tar Heels won four in a row from January 24-February 1 and five straight, including four non-conference games and at Georgia Tech, from November 23-December 14.
- Carolina is tied with Notre Dame for second place in the ACC at 14-5, two games behind Duke. The Tar Heels have clinched a top four seed and a double bye in next week’s ACC Tournament in Brooklyn.
- Carolina has won 20 or more games for the 62nd time (first time since going 29-7 in 2018-19) and 14 or more regular-season ACC games for the 12th time (first time since going 16-2 in 2018-19).
- The Tar Heels are 6-3 and have already clinched a winning record on the road in the ACC for the 43rd time in 69 seasons.
- Carolina secured the ACC Tournament double bye with an 88-79 overtime win over Syracuse on Monday. Brady Manek led UNC with 22 points, Caleb Love hit three three-pointers over the final seven minutes and Armando Bacot tied the UNC record with his 23rd double-double this season in the win.
- The Tar Heels made 14 of 36 three-pointers. It was the first time since the Purdue game (11/20) four Tar Heels made multiple threes in a game, and the 36 three-point attempts were the most in UNC history.
- RJ Davis made five threes, Love hit four, Manek and Leaky Black hit a pair. UNC is 6-1 this season when Davis, Love and Manek connect on multiple threes in the same game.
- ACC Player-of-the-Year candidate Armando Bacot is on pace to lead the ACC in field goal percentage and rebounding for the ninth time in 69 seasons.
Duke vs UNC:
- The 2021-22 season marks the 102nd anniversary of the first DukeNorth Carolina game, which was played January 24, 1920 — a 36-25 UNC win in Durham.
- Saturday’s game in Durham is the 257th all-time meeting, with North Carolina leading the series, 141-115.
- In Durham, Duke leads 55-50, including a 46-38 record at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
- Duke is 50-46 versus Carolina under Mike Krzyzewski.
- The series favors Duke, 51-49, over the last 100 games.
- There have been 187 games between Duke and UNC in the AP Poll era (since 1948-49) and Duke has been ranked in 120 of them (70-50). When ranked, Duke is 27-8 against unranked Carolina teams.
- Carolina and Duke have won 39 of the ACC’s 67 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships, including 21 by Duke and 18 by UNC.
- Carolina and Duke are No. 1 and 2 all-time in the ACC in wins, ACC regular-season wins, ACC
Tournament wins and NCAA Tournament wins.
- Carolina has won the ACC regular-season title 32 times. The Blue Devils are second with 20.
- Either Carolina or Duke have played in the NCAA Final Four 25 times in the last 41 seasons.
- The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have won 10 national championships in the last 41 seasons – five by Carolina and five by Duke.
How to Watch
Time: 6:00 p.m. (ET)
TV: ESPN & ACC Network (Dan Shulman, Jay Bilas, Holly Rowe)
Stream: Watch ESPN
Radio: Blue Devils Sports Network (David Shumate, John Roth) & Tar Heel Sports Properties (Jones Angell, Eric Montross, Adam Lucas)
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