Duke Blue Devils NCAA Basketball Betting
Head coach Jon Scheyer has made a quick impact in his three seasons with the Duke Blue Devils. Scheyer has produced quick and methodical progress, going from the round of 32 in his rookie season to the Elite Eight in Year 2 to a Final Four in 2025. As a former Duke player and assistant coach, Scheyer knows that Duke expects Final Four appearances every season and has the fans optimistic about the future. Duke is the dominant team of the Atlantic Coast Conference and there is nothing that indicates a change in that status for the immediate future.
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2025 Duke Blue Devils Season Recap
Overall, the Duke Blue Devils are 35-3 straight up, 25-13 against the spread, and 20-18 over/under the total. Duke has national metrics of 15th for scoring offense, 18th for field goal percentage, 24th for 3-point field goal percentage, 16th for free throw percentage, and 22nd for offensive rebounding. Defensively, Duke is 7th for scoring defense, 7th for field goal percentage permitted, 38th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 12th for defensive rebounding.
Lately, Duke has covered four of its previous six games and has gone under the total in one of its last five outings. First among Duke scorers is Cooper Flagg, with 19.2 points per game.
Houston’s no-room-to-breathe defense wiped away a 14-point deficit over the final eight minutes, erased Cooper Flagg and Duke’s title hopes, and brought the Cougars within a win of a championship of their own Saturday night with a 70-67 stunner over the Blue Devils.
Led by Joseph Tugler’s four blocks and an amoeba-like defense that smothers everything, Houston held Duke to a grand total of one field goal over the last 10 1/2 minutes of this game. The 67 points were Duke's second-lowest output of its now-ended season.
The Blue Devils' second-to-last attempt during their contest-ending 1-for-9 stretch was a step-back jumper in the paint by Flagg that J’Wan Roberts disrupted. The last was a desperation heave by Tyrese Proctor that caught nothing at the buzzer and sent Flagg and company shuffling off in shock.
“We just had to keep that belief and keep the faith,” said LJ Cryer, who won a title with Baylor in 2021 and led the Cougars in this one with 26 points.
Houston has allowed the fewest points this season, and even against Duke, with Flagg, Kon Knueppel (16 points), and a roster with five or six NBA prospects, it made things impossible down the stretch.
It was Roberts’ two free throws with 19.6 seconds left that gave the Cougars their first lead since 6-5. Cryer made two more to push the lead to three. It was Houston’s biggest lead of the night.
It closed the game on a 9-0 run over the final 33 seconds, and though Flagg, the AP Player of the Year, finished with 27 points, he did it on 8-for-19 shooting and never got a good look after his three at the 3:02 mark put the Blue Devils up by nine.
Trailing 64-55, things looked dire for the Cougars. But they were just getting started.
A team that prides itself on getting three stops in a row - calling the third one the “kill stop” - strung together two stretches like that, broken up only by Flagg's 3.
Duke settled for a measly three free throws over the final 3 minutes. One came when Tugler got a technical for batting the ball from a Duke player's hand as he was trying to throw an inbounds pass.
That didn't make things any better for the Blue Devils.
Houston held Duke to 37.5% shooting in the second half; that was nearly 20% lower than its first four games of the tournament, which included a blowout over the nation's best offense, Alabama, in the Elite Eight.
“We held that team to 67 points,” Sampson said, marveling at what they'd done.
Latest NCAA Tournament Results
| YEAR |
RESULT |
| 2025 |
Lost Final Four vs. (1) Houston 67–70 |
| 2024 |
Lost Elite Eight vs. (11) NC State 64–76 |
| 2023 |
Lost Second Round vs. (4) Tennessee, 52–65 |
| 2022 |
Lost Final Four vs. (8) North Carolina, 77–81 |
| 2019 |
Lost Elite Eight vs. (2) Michigan State, 67–68 |
| 2018 |
Lost Elite Eight vs. (1) Kansas, 81–85 (OT) |
| 2017 |
Lost Second Round vs. (7) South Carolina, 81–88 |
| 2016 |
Lost Sweet Sixteen vs. (1) Oregon, 68–82 |
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