It didn’t save a streak but nothing can top the triple OT victory over the Tar Heels on senior day in 1968.
https://www.dukebasketballreport.com...c-fred-lind-68
In all those years, maybe the most dramatic streak-saving game was the 1982 final home game against Clemson. Duke was sitting at 9 wins, with just second-ranked UNC and a highly-seeded opponent in the ACC tournament afterwards — so the team knew this was their best chance to preserve what was then a 53-year streak. (By the way, 53 years was the most in college basketball at the time, so today’s 91 years blows away any record.)
Duke trailed by 8 with under eight minutes to go, but came storming back to tie it in regulation and win in triple overtime, 73-72, to keep the streak alive. Vince Taylor hit the game-winning shot and then forced a travel in the final seconds of the third overtime to secure the win. His 35 points on his senior day was his career high; afterwards he called it his greatest win ever. (And this is a guy who played in the game with Gene Banks’ miracle shot to take Carolina to overtime the year before, not to mention the 1979 game in which Duke shut out Carolina in the first half.)
And the game had another distinction: Coach K — in his second year as Duke’s coach — notched his 100th career coaching win. Duke ended up 10-17 that year, and had another close call the following year with an 11-17 record. Other than the 13-win 1994-95 season when Coach K was out, and the following year with 18 wins, no season since has seen fewer than 23 wins.
It didn’t save a streak but nothing can top the triple OT victory over the Tar Heels on senior day in 1968.
https://www.dukebasketballreport.com...c-fred-lind-68
Maybe, maybe not. These days it's not so hard to win 10 games in a 35 game college basketball season. For example, if whatever team was behind Duke in 1982 had double-figure wins in 48 straight years (making that number up) and if they'd won 10+ every year since, then they'd have 86 straight years now, meaning Duke's 91 may not be blowing away anything.
But it's still cool.
FWIW, my vague recollection is in 1982 (my senior year; I attended the Clemson game you mention) it was Louisville with the second-longest streak. And they have won 10+ games every year since, except they had (I believe) three seasons in which all the wins were vacated. I don't remember who was third or how long their streak was.
As far as assist-to-turnover ratios, Tre is putting up numbers not seen yet in Dukes History ...
... 67 assist to 13 turnovers for a 5.16:1 ratio. I’m aware this may come down to earth at some point but I believe the Duke record is 3.03:1 held by Wojo himself in 1997.
Anyone, other than myself, think Tre will be able to break that record? I seriously doubt he stays where he is, but I think he has a chance to break the ACC record which is 4.11:1 held by James Robinson (Pitt in 2014).
You can find this stuff in the Game Notes through goduke.com.
"I don't like them when they are eating my azaleas or rhododendrons or pansies." - Coach K
It's possible I missed one or two (though I don't think so), but here are all the Duke players I could find in the Coach K era who in their first 12 games of the season averaged 4+ apg and 2:1 a/to or better:
SELECTED DUKE PG A/TO RATIOS AFTER 12 GAMES
This table tells me two things: (1) Tre Jones is having a great season so far (2nd best a/to ratio over first 12 games); and (b) it seems unlikely Tre's a/to will be above 3.0 by the end of the season.Code:Year Player 12gmA 12gmTO 12 a/to season a/to 2010 Jon Scheyer 77 14 5.50 2.98 2019 Tre Jones 67 13 5.15 ??? 2018 Trevon Duval 80 23 3.48 2.03 1989 Quin Snyder 88 26 3.38 2.17 1997 Wojo 77 23 3.35 3.03 1986 Tom Amaker 82 26 3.15 2.51 2015 Tyus Jones 66 22 3.00 2.86 2014 Quinn Cook 78 26 3.00 2.68 2018 Grayson Allen 53 19 2.79 2.18 2003 Chris Duhon 98 36 2.72 2.16 1992 Bob Hurley 97 36 2.69 2.17 2001 Chris Duhon 63 24 2.63 2.85 1999 Will Avery 80 31 2.58 1.92 2004 Chris Duhon 76 30 2.53 2.16 1985 Tom Amaker 80 32 2.50 2.88 2002 Chris Duhon 76 31 2.45 2.26 1993 Bob Hurley 98 41 2.39 2.43 2013 Quinn Cook 71 30 2.37 2.41 1998 Wojo 64 28 2.29 2.56
Obviously only time will tell.
Against Clemson, Javin DeLaurier made his 15th consecutive field goal. The Duke record is 20 set by Alaa Abdelnaby in 1988-89. (Ryan Kelly is 2nd, with 18 straight in 2010-11.)
He doesn't shoot from very far out, but Javin has only missed 3 shots all year and is shooting 90.0% from the field.
The NBA season record for PER is Wilt Chamberlain's 31.82 rating.
The NCAA record is John Brown's (High Point) 36.93.
Zion is currently sitting at a ridiculous PER of 42.10.
Maybe. My recollection is Javin dropped one pass last night, and (though obviously I'd have preferred he held onto it) it wasn't really that good a pass. My guess is he would have caught either a bounce pass or a pass up at shoulder level or above, rather than a pass thrown at his hip and a little behind him.
His defensive rebounding has been slipping in the past several games, but it hasn't struck me that it has been because the ball is bouncing out of his hands. But I don't have any evidence to back that up, either.
http://insider.espn.com/mens-college...ger/statistics (current)
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb...er-season.html (NCAA all-time season records)
https://www.basketball-reference.com...er_season.html (NBA/ABA all-time season records)
My bad. Zion's PER is now 43.51. Insane.
The only evidence I have...and it's not really evidence per se, is that many of us on the live chat during games notice this and comment on it often. I don't know if there's ever stats kept on this really. He just reminds me of Tony Lang in this sense.
By the same token, the consensus on the game chat, to my eye, is that Zion and Jack have amazing hands on rebounds and receptions and loose balls. Hand control, good and bad, has always been something I've noticed...back to the days of Adrian Dantley, who has amazing hands. A lot of it is mental and concentration. Appearing to get a rebound, only to lose it, often leads to easy hoop other way, because your teammates have started the other way many times...