Predicting Duke basketball record in ACC play next season
Predicting Duke basketball record in ACC play next season: Group Five
The Blue Devils are 11-1 against Notre Dame in Durham. This game doesn’t buck that trend:
72. 443. 87. 434. Prediction
The Blue Devils complete their 10-game home conference schedule with their second win against the Panthers, this time in Durham. Pittsburgh has won just once in five tries at Duke, and the Devils beat the Panthers a fifth time and finish an unblemished 10-0 on Coach K Court:
434. Prediction. 63. 444. 75
Coach K’s squad wraps up the 2020-21 conference regular season with games at Wake Forest and North Carolina. Since 2010, Duke has taken eight of the last 10 in Winston Salem. However, in the decade prior, the Deacons owned a 5-3 record against the Blue Devils. Duke’s uber-talented six-man recruiting class gets the better of Wake:
448. Prediction. 82. 434. 77
The Blue Devils conclude their regular season in Chapel Hill for North Carolina’s senior night. The bluebloods have split the last 10 games in the Dean E. Smith Center. A back-and-forth game ends with a missed Duke three, and the Heels hand the Devils another road loss:
434. 79. 441. Prediction. 77
Record: 16-4
So, the young and inexperienced 2020-21 Blue Devils, led by senior and likely captain Jordan Goldwire, will finish with just under their head coach’s historic average number of conference losses.
Will a 16-4 record be good enough to claim the ACC regular crown?
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