It has been a difficult season for the Duke Blue Devils, and that did not change on Monday night. The Blue Devils went on the road and fell to the Miami Hurricanes by a score of 77-75.
The loss snapped a two-game winning streak for the Blue Devils, who appeared to be trending in the right direction heading into the final month of the regular season after beating Georgia Tech and Clemson last week. But what makes this an especially tough loss is the fact that the Hurricanes were 7-9 overall and 2-9 in the ACC coming into tonight.
Following the game, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski was very critical of the Blue Devils’ performance, calling his team soft and saying they did not play well enough to win.
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“I don’t know with the quick turnaround if our guys thought this was going to be easy,” Krzyzewski said after the game. “We did not play well, bottom line. We can go through a whole bunch of things. I didn’t think we competed. I thought we were soft. I saw it in practice yesterday and tried to take steps to change that, and we were not able to change it.
“I’m really disappointed in our team. They did not play like a Duke basketball team tonight. And obviously I’m responsible for that. But anyway, the last two games we won and we were deserving to win. We were not tonight. I mean, we threw the ball to them like five times, where we threw it right to them and they got layups. And we were very soft. And we were very soft. And it’s extremely disappointing. Extremely disappointing.”
Duke's defense allowed Miami to shoot 52.5 percent from the field and 53.8 percent from the three-point line. The Blue Devils were also sloppy with the ball in their hands as they committed 13 turnovers on the night.
The Blue Devils (7-6, 5-4 ACC) will look to get back on track this Saturday when they host the rival North Carolina Tar Heels (11-5, 6-3) at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The game is scheduled to tip off at 6 p.m. ET and it will be televised on ESPN.
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