National Basketball Association
Duke 75, Notre Dame 65
When: 9:00 PM ET, Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Where: Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center, South Bend, Indiana
Officials:
# Roger Ayers, # Michael Stephens, # John Gaffney
Attendance:
89
By Field Level Media
Matthew Hurt scored 18 points as No. 21 Duke defeated host Notre Dame 75-65 in the Atlantic Coast Conference opener for both teams Wednesday night in South Bend, Ind.
The Blue Devils (3-2) won a game over a major-conference opponent for the first time this season in what was their first road game of the season.
DJ Steward and Jeremy Roach, a pair of freshmen, excelled by scoring 16 and 14 points, respectively. Classmate Jaemyn Brakefield added 10 points off the bench.
Duke made 8 of 15 3-point attempts. Steward's seven rebounds helped the Blue Devils to a 33-23 edge on the boards.
Duke played without freshman forward Jalen Johnson, a first-team All-ACC preseason selection who suffered a foot injury during the past week in practice.
Dane Goodwin's 25 points and Prentiss Hubb's 12 points paced Notre Dame (2-3), which shot 46.9 percent from the field. Goodwin made 10 of 12 attempts from the field, including four 3-pointers.
Hubb had averaged 18.3 points per game against ranked opponents, a total of eight games, during the past two seasons.
Duke broke out to a 17-7 lead and kept a lead that wavered between five and 11 points throughout the rest of the first half. The Blue Devils held a 41-34 edge at halftime.
Hurt didn't make a 3-pointer (0 for 2), but he made 8 of 17 attempts from the field. The Blue Devils won despite taking just five free throws -- and making them all.
Duke is 50-18 all-time in ACC openers, including 31-10 in ACC openers under coach Mike Krzyzewski.
By winning, Duke has avoided losing more two games prior to Christmas for the first time since the 1982-83 season, when it started 2-4. That's also the last time they had a losing record through five games (2-3) in what was Krzyzewski's third season with the Blue Devils.
This marked the fifth time in a six-season span that the Blue Devils began ACC play with a road game.
This was Duke's final game prior to Christmas as the team opted out of playing any more nonconference games in the regular season.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Duke |
|
Notre Dame |
Matthew Hurt 18 |
Scoring |
Dane Goodwin 25 |
Matthew Hurt 4 |
Assists |
Prentiss Hubb 3 |
Matthew Hurt 7 |
Rebounds |
Nate Laszewski 8 |
Matthew Hurt 2 |
Free Throws Made |
Juwan Durham 3 |
Matthew Hurt 2 |
Steals |
Juwan Durham 1 |
Matthew Hurt 2 |
Blocks |
Juwan Durham 2 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
Duke
|
75 |
51.7 |
8-15 |
5-5 |
11 |
30 |
2 |
8 |
8 |
Notre Dame
|
65 |
46.9 |
9-21 |
10-11 |
12 |
23 |
4 |
4 |
12 |