From the perspective of achieving points at the foul line, long a staple of Duke offense under Mike Krzyzewski, 2021 was something of an unnoticed disaster.
The Blue Devils finished second in the ACC with 76.0 points per game. A third of those points came from 3-point range. But Duke was a bust at the foul line, worst of Krzyzewski’s tenure.
That deficiency contributed significantly to its inconsistency. The Devils three times experienced three-game losing streaks. Five of their losses came by fewer than five points, not to mention two that came late in the year in overtime.