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THE OPENING TIP

• No. 21 Duke plays its ACC opener away from home for the fifth time in the last six years when it travels to Notre Dame for a Wednesday night date with the Fighting Irish.
• The game tips at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN with Bob Wischusen and Dick Vitale on the call. On the radio, David Shumate and John Roth have the call on the Blue Devil Sports Network from Learfield IMG College (96.5FM & 610AM in Durham).
• Duke is 49-18 all-time in ACC openers, including 30-10 in ACC openers under head coach Mike Krzyzewski. The Blue Devils have won two straight and four of their last six ACC lid lifters.
• The overall series favors Duke, 26-7, and the Blue Devils have won six straight and seven of the last 10 versus the Irish.
• Wednesday's game pairs two of the eight programs in NCAA history with at least 1,900 all-time victories.
• Sophomore Matthew Hurt's 19.0 points per game ranks fourth in the ACC and 67th nationally. He is averaging 21.3 over Duke's last three games. The watch list candidate for the Wooden Award and Naismith Trophy averaged 9.7 points last year as a freshman.
• Freshman Jeremy Roach is coming off a career game versus Illinois, scoring 13 points with seven assists, no turnover and four rebounds  in 31 minutes -- the points, assists and minutes each career highs.
• Roach is just the seventh Duke freshman all-time with a game of seven+ assists and no turnovers, joining Johnny Dawkins, Jason Williams, Quinn Cook, Tyus Jones, Tre Jones and RJ Barrett. The Jones brothers each accomplished it twice.
• Senior Jordan Goldwire's 2.75 steals per game rank second in the ACC and 38th nationally. He ranked ninth in the ACC in steals last season (1.52) and was fifth in the ACC in KenPom's steal pct metric.
• Since the start of last season, Duke has held 15 opponents to .250 or less from long range -- third most nationally. Going back to the Blue Devils' 2014-15 national championship season, Duke's 81 games holding the opponent to .250 or less from three-point range are the most nationally (by nine).
• Duke leads the ACC and is 27th nationally in blocked shots per game (5.5). Since the start of the 2018-19 season, no team in the nation has blocked more shots than Duke's 467.

ACC OPENERS
Duke is 49-18 all-time in ACC openers, including 30-10 in the 40 ACC openers under head coach Mike Krzyzewski…Wednesday's game at ND marks the fifth time in the last six seasons that the Blue Devils opened ACC play on the road…Duke is 12-6 when opening ACC play on the road under Coach K…The Blue Devils have faced the Fighting Irish just once previously in an ACC opener -- a 79-77 Notre Dame victory at Purcell Pavilion on January 4, 2014.

DUKE VS. NOTRE DAME
Wednesday's game is the 34th meeting between Duke and Notre Dame, with the Blue Devils leading, 26-7…Since joining the ACC, the series favors Duke, 7-5 and the Blue Devils have won six straight…Four of the meetings have come in the ACC Tournament, with Duke winning 75-69 in the 2017 championship game and 88-70 in the 2018 quarterfinals -- both in Brooklyn…Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey is a former Duke assistant coach under Mike Krzyzewski, serving on the staff from 1987-95.

SCOUTING THE IRISH
The battle-tested Irish are 2-2 on the young season and have played no game decided by more than 10 points…Notre Dame's wins are over Detroit Mercy (78-70) and Kentucky (64-63), with a pair of losses to Michigan State (80-70) and Ohio State (90-85) by a combined 15 points…They face Purdue in Indianapolis on Saturday…Junior Prentiss Hubb paces the Irish at 21.3 points and 4.3 assists, while junior Nate Laszewski is a double-double threat at 16.5 points and 9.5 rebounds.
Hubb is tied for the ACC scoring lead…Notre Dame commits just 13.5 fouls, which rank second fewest in the ACC and 10th nationally.

ON THIS DATE
Duke is 14-1 when playing on December 16 and has won three straight…The lone loss on this date was a 76-75 setback at Vanderbilt in 1967…The Blue Devils last played on this date in 2013 -- an 85-66 victory over Gardner-Webb at Cameron Indoor…Duke has played on this date just twice in the Coach K era (2-0).

DUKE AWAY FROM CAMERON
In the Coach K era, Duke is 260-146 (.640) in true road games and 275-77 (.781) in neutral site games, for a combined mark of 535-223 (.706) in all games outside of Cameron Indoor Stadium…In ACC regular season play, Duke is 189-121 (.610) away from home under Coach K. The Blue Devils are 133-68 (.665) in ACC road games since the 1996-97 season…In ACC Tournament play, Duke's .696 winning percentage and 103 wins each lead the conference…Coach K's 189 ACC road wins are a conference record…Coach K has also won 16 road games against AP top five teams, the most in the history of the AP poll.

YOUTH AND INEXPERIENCE
Duke's 2020-21 roster features seven newcomers -- six freshmen that comprised the nation's No. 2 class and graduate transfer Patrick Tapé from Columbia University -- the program's first grad transfer…Duke's roster is ranked as the fifth most inexperienced in the nation of the 287 ranked by KenPom, behind only Kentucky, Presbyterian, Auburn and Stetson…Of Duke's new faces, Tapé missed all of last season at Columbia University with a foot injury…Freshman center Mark Williams missed time during his senior season at IMG Academy with an injury…Freshman guard Jeremy Roach missed the entirety of his junior season at St. Paul VI with a knee injury.

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