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Simple short-term solution to Duke basketball shooting woes

Across the current calendar year — i.e., the final 26 games of the 2018-19 season in addition to the Blue-White Scrimmage on Oct. 18 and Saturday’s 69-63 concerning squeaker over Division II foe Northwest Missouri State — Duke basketball players have shot a combined 188-for-648 from 3-point distance.

For those without a calculator or a quick mind for numbers, that’s 29.0 percent, which ranks in the bottom one percent of all 353 Division I programs since New Year’s Day. Meanwhile, to the understandable confusion of many fans and surely to the delight of opposing coaches when game-planning for the Blue Devils, Duke’s number of attempts across this span (23.