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The Duke Blue Devils and Syracuse Orange will make Division I men's college basketball history Wednesday night when two coaches with 1,000 career wins face each other for the first time. No. 10 Duke (22-5, 10-4 ACC) will carry a seven-game winning streak into the Carrier Dome against Syracuse (16-12, 8-7) in first game of an ESPN doubleheader featuring four Hall of Fame coaches: Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, Syracuse's Jim Boeheim, North Carolina's Roy Williams and Louisville's Rick Pitino. Krzyzewski is the leader with 1,065 wins. Continue to Article

February 20, 2017 9:10:pm EST

Isaiah Hicks, who missed last week’s game at Duke with an injury, looked fully healthy in a dominant performance against Virginia. All Tony Bennett could do was stand there, helpless. Virginia’s head coach was perched on a Dean Smith Center sideline, his arms folded, his lips pursed, lonely among a sea of Carolina blue during the second half of a beatdown, and he must have known that any course of action, any attempts to reverse the tide that was vigorously rolling to and fro in front of him, would have been in vain. Continue to Article

February 18, 2017 11:14:pm EST

Several weeks ago, Duke relied heavily on guard Luke Kennard for a large dose of offense. The production has become more spread out for the No. 12 Blue Devils, but that doesn't mean Kennard won't be front and center for Saturday afternoon's game against visiting Wake Forest at Cameron Indoor Stadium. "He's accustomed to having the ball in his hands in pressure situations," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said of Kennard, a sophomore who leads the team in scoring with 19.8 points per game. Continue to Article

February 17, 2017 5:09:pm EST

A look at the upcoming week around the Atlantic Coast Conference: Continue to Article

February 17, 2017 4:08:am EST

Instead of emphasizing unselfishness, patience and ball movement late in Wednesday night’s game at Virginia, Duke tried out a less conventional strategy. The Blue Devils gave the ball to Jayson Tatum, then got out of the heralded freshman’s way. In a slow-paced, defensive-oriented game in which neither team broke 50 points until the final three minutes, Tatum’s one-man scoring assault propelled Duke to a massive 65-55 road win. Continue to Article

February 16, 2017 12:12:am EST