No. 1-ranked Duke will play Mount St. Mary’s in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday, March 21. The Blue Devils (31-3) will face the Mountaineers (23-12), tipping off at 2:50 p.m., on CBS.
Ian Eagle, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill and Tracy Wolfson will call the action on CBS. David Shumate and John Roth team up for the broadcast on the Blue Devil Sports Network.
About Duke
- Duke owns the second-highest net rating (38.16) in the history of KenPom (since 1996-97 season). Only the 1998-99 Duke Blue Devils have achieved a higher net rating (43.01).
- Duke is the only team in the country ranked among the top-three in both offensive (1st) and defensive (3rd) raw efficiency, according to KenPom.
- Duke is the only Division I team to score 80 points or more per game (82.7) and hold its opponents to fewer than 62 points per game (61.9).
- Head coach Jon Scheyer leads Duke into the tournament for the third straight season and has steered the Blue Devils to a top-five seed in each of his first three seasons at the helm of the program.
About Mount St. Mary’s
- Mount St. Mary’s (23-12) defeated American, 83-72, in the NCAA First Four on Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio. The Mountaineers knocked off Iona to capture the program’s first MAAC Tournament title on Saturday.
- Mount St. Mary’s leads the MAAC and is 34th in the nation in field goal percentage defense (40.8%).
- Four Mountaineers average double figures in scoring, topped by Dola Adebayo with 13.4 points per game and Dallas Hobbs with 12.7 points per outing. Jedy Cordilia contributes 10.4 points and a team-high 7.3 rebounds per contest.
- Donny Lind is in his first season as head coach, after spending the prior three seasons as an assistant coach at UNC Greensboro.
Friday is the first meeting between Duke and Mount St. Mary’s, but the second NCAA Tournament matchup for the Blue Devils against a team from the MAAC, as Duke defeated Iona in the first round of the 2018 postseason in Pittsburgh.
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