Duke makes its 48th appearance in the NCAA Tournament and the first as the overall No. 1 seed under fourth-year head coach Jon Scheyer. The Blue Devils play Siena on Thursday at 2:50 p.m.
Ian Eagle, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery 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 is No. 1 in NET rankings and owns 17 Quad-1 wins, tied for the most in the nation.
- Duke is the only team ranked in the top-four nationally in both offensive efficiency (128.0, 4th) and defensive efficiency (89.1, 2nd) ratings. (KenPom).
- Duke’s regular-season record of 29-2 is the best for the Blue Devils since going 29-1 in 1998-99.
- Cameron Boozer is the nation’s ninth-leading scorer with 22.5 points per game and is tied for fourth in the nation with 19 double-doubles, while topping the ACC in rebounding (10.2 rpg), is 12th in assists (4.2 apg), 14th in steals (1.5 spg) and fourth in field goal percentage (.565).
- Cameron Boozer and Isaiah Evans are the first Duke teammates to each have 350+ points in the team’s first 25 games of a season since Tre Jones and Vernon Carey Jr. in 2019-20. Evans is only the second Blue Devil to make seven 3-pointers in the ACC Tournament, matching the standard set by J.J. Redick in 2005 and 2006.
About Siena
- Siena secured the program’s eighth NCAA Tournament bid and its first since 2010, when the third-seeded Saints earned a seventh MAAC Tournament championship with a 64-54 victory over regular-season champion Merrimack.
- Siena ranked second in the MAAC and 15th nationally for scoring defense, holding opponents to 65.7 points per game.
- Siena is sixth in the nation in fewest fouls per game (13.7).
- Gavin Doty tops the Saints with 17.9 points and 7.0 rebounds per game, while distributing 2.2 assists per contest.
- Justice Shoats is second on the squad with 13.2 points per game, and leads the team in assists (4.4 apg) and steals (1.4 spg).
Duke vs Siena
- Duke defeated Siena, 92-74, in the only meeting between the Blue Devils and Saints, on Nov. 13, 2015, in Durham, N.C.
Duke in the NCAA Tournament
- Duke earned the overall No. 1-seed in the East Region of the 2026 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
- Duke’s 48th NCAA Tournament appearance ranks fifth in tournament history, trailing Kentucky (63), North Carolina (55), Kansas (53) and UCLA (52).
- Duke is 126-42 (.750) all-time in the NCAA Tournament, marking the best winning percentage in tournament history by a team with a minimum of 20 games played. Duke’s 126 wins are third-most in the event’s history.
- Head coach Jon Scheyer leads Duke into the NCAA Tournament for the fourth straight season and has steered the Blue Devils to a top-five seed in each of his first four years at the helm of the program. The 2026 campaign is the second consecutive one-seed for the Blue Devils under Scheyer, and marks the 16th time in program history Duke has been tapped as a one seed, the second-most in tournament history.
- The Blue Devils have now been selected to the East Region 21 times – last in 2025 – and hold a 63-18 (.778) record when playing out of the East. Duke is 58-11 (.841) all-time as a No. 1 seed and is 15-0 all-time versus a No. 16 seed.
- Duke’s Thursday game in Greenville marks the program’s ninth NCAA Tournament game in the state of South Carolina with the Blue Devils entering with a record of 7-1 (.875) in the Palmetto State, including a 5-1 ledger at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in NCAA action.
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