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Record Crowd Awaits for No. 1 Duke at Syracuse

GoDuke.com | February 23, 2019

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Leading Off

  • Looking to even the season series, No. 1 Duke invades the Carrier Dome Saturday night for a date with Syracuse.
  • The game is expected to draw an NCAA on-campus arena record crowd of nearly 36,000, surpassing a mark set in two previous Duke-Syracuse games at the Carrier Dome in 2014 and 2015 (35,446).
  • In the nine matchups since ‘Cuse joined the ACC (Duke leads 5-4), two have been decided in overtime and the average margin of victory has been just 4.7 points.
  • The Blue Devils find themselves in a three-way tie atop the ACC standings at 11-2 with Virginia and North Carolina, while Syracuse and Florida State are each two games back.
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