Seth Curry scored a game-high 26 points and Mason Plumlee added 23 points and nine rebounds in a game that Duke did not trail.
Although Duke has pulled within one win of the Final Four each of the past three seasons, the Blue Devils are confident that this year will be their year to break through.
Duke was “shocked” last season when it became just the sixth second-seeded team in NCAA Tournament history to lose to a No. 15 seed in the first round.
This was supposed to be the Maddest March ever.
Duke’s substitution patterns have been in flux for much of the year.
But since Battle 4 Atlantis, the Quinn-sanity has died down.
When the bus carrying the Duke basketball team pulled out late on March 16, 2012, it stopped for nothing.
“No one is going to be perfect,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski told the media before Duke’s regular season finale.
Scouts break down the action in anticipation of June’s draft, where the league will invite 60 college players to join the professional ranks.
Six key numbers as Duke basketball begins.
A trio of seniors led Duke to its last national championship in 2010: Jon Scheyer, Lance Thomas and Brian Zoubek.