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The Cardinals, who again be without injured guard Mikel Brown Jr., rank fourth nationally in made 3-pointers and fifth in 3-point attempts.
Duke basketball next takes its high-powered attack — now averaging 87.3 points per game this season — to the KFC Yum! Center, as the Blue Devils (13-1, 2-0 ACC) are set to battle the No. 16 Louisville Cardinals (11-3, 1-1 ACC) on the road at 7 p.m. ET Tuesday (ESPN).
Duke men's basketball heads to the Cardinals' home turf after its first road win of ACC play against Florida State. The Blue Zone previews the conference encounter with an overview of Louisville and three keys to the game.
Taina Mair has also emerged as Duke’s bus driver. The 5-foot-9 senior guard led Duke in assists the past two seasons and was an All-ACC selection at Boston college as a freshman, ranking eighth in the nation in assists per game. But this season, Lawson challenged Mair to take on more of a scorer’s mentality from the point guard position.
After chucking up 20 shots from deep across its lackluster first half effort in an eventual 85-79 home victory over the unranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on Wednesday, Jon Scheyer's fourth Duke basketball team attempted 14 threes in the first half against the unranked Florida State Seminoles (7-7, 0-2 ACC) on Saturday.
The No. 6 Blue Devils (12-1) face the Seminoles (7-7) at Tucker Center with broadcast on CBS and streaming options available through multiple services.
Five-star prospect Deron Rippey Jr. committed to Duke on Tuesday in a live announcement on CBS Sports HQ as the highly coveted point guard capped a busy recruitment by revealing his long-awaited college decision. Rippey chose the Blue Devils over NC State, Miami, Tennessee and Texas.
Louisville will face Duke looking to get back on the right track after faltering in their last time out. While the Cardinals kicked off their West Coast trip with a decisive 90-70 beatdown of Cal, that was then followed up with an 80-76 upset loss at Stanford.
Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer was impressed with the play of Florida State, after the Seminoles came so close to defeating his team.
Sophomore guard Isaiah Evans poured in a career-best 28 points as the Duke Blue Devils won an ACC road game at Florida State.
Louisville basketball head coach Pat Kelsey said that five-star freshman Mikel Brown jr. is expected to miss the game against Duke.