Duke Basketball: Blue Devils have no excuse for another 3-point fiasco

If the Duke basketball players don’t limit their 3-point attempts in their rematch with Syracuse tonight, their season’s first losing streak may be imminent.

Common misconception: The Duke basketball team sometimes has no choice but to attempt more than three Krispy Kreme boxes worth of 3-pointers in a game.

Twice this season the No. 1 Blue Devils (23-3; 11-2 in ACC) have acted like unsupervised rec leaguers by jacking up more than 36 long-distance prayers, thereby practically begging possessions to end with donuts for point totals.

Both such performances resulted in home losses. The first came in overtime to Syracuse on Jan. 14 when Duke went 9-for-43 from beyond the arc. The second was by 16…