Duke basketball clinches share of ACC regular-season title with record-breaking 18th win
Duke basketball clinches share of ACC regular-season title with record-breaking 18th win
Cooper Flagg and the Duke men's basketball team kept their red-hot form going against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons on Monday night, winning 93-60 for the Blue Devils' seventh straight victory and their fourth in a row by more than 30 points.
The Wake Forest win also broke an ACC record as Duke's 18th conference victory of the 2024-25 campaign, the most in a single season in league history, as head coach Jon Scheyer clinched a share of his first regular-season conference title.
Granted, the ACC expanded to a 20-game conference schedule just six seasons ago (and couldn't field a full slate in one of those years because of the COVID-19 pandemic), so the sample size at this volume is small. Still, since the league changed his schedule in 2019-20, no member of the conference finished better than 17-3 in league play until this year.
The Blue Devils haven't just beaten the rest of the ACC, they've bullied their conference counterparts. Duke has won 12 of its ACC games by at least 20 points and five by at least 30. Through the first 19 league games, Duke has a cumulative scoring margin of +421, a number that averages out to a 22.16-point slant in its favor.
Duke would win the conference title outright with a victory over the North Carolina Tar Heels on Saturday, but midweek losses by the Clemson Tigers (at Boston College on Wednesday) and Louisville Cardinals (vs California on Wednesday) would get the job done early.
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