Predicting Duke basketball record in ACC play next season
Predicting Duke basketball record in ACC play next season: Group One
In the Mike Krzyzewski era, Duke has won all 11 games against Boston College in Durham. This year’s contest will be no different as the Blue Devils, starting three freshmen for the first time since 2014-15, will easily defeat the visiting Eagles:
434. Prediction. 67. 431. 87
The squad will also host the Orangemen. Under Coach K, Duke is just 3-3 against Syracuse in Durham. This contest against Jim Boeheim’s challenging matchup zone will be a little closer than the Boston College game, but the home team will escape with a relatively low-scoring victory:
Prediction. 67. 445. 71. 434
Duke will also travel west to take on the Fighting Irish. The Blue Devils, under their Hall of Fame coach, have taken six of nine in Indiana, although they are 2-2 against the Irish more recently. Nonetheless, the Devils escape the Joyce Center with a relatively comfortable win:
434. 71. 443. Prediction. 81
Our last game of the first four takes us to Pittsburgh for a road game against the Panthers. Since 2007-08, the Panthers have won just once in four tries against the Blue Devils north of the Mason-Dixon. Things will not change in 2020-21 as Duke cruises to another W:
77. 434. 64. 444. Prediction
Record: 4-0
In the second group of four games, the Duke basketball team will stay closer to home with games in Durham against in-state rivals North Carolina and Wake Forest and away contests at NC State and Florida State…