As Duke Is Hosting Virginia Tech Tonight For Rematch In Durham Duke Is Looking To Avenge January 23rd , 2023 78-75 Loss To Virginia Tech In Blacksburg Where They Also Lost Dariq Whitehead

January 23rd, 2023 was a night of losses for Duke for Duke Head Coach Jon Scheyer who is coaching his inaugural season as Duke Head Coach because they lost Dariq Whitehead to left leg injury. Dariq Whithead who is a forward left leg injury accrued with 17:10 to go in the game as went on to lose inaugural meeting of 2022-2023 regular season to Virginia Tech 78-75.

As Duke went on to lose to Virginia Tech 78-75 in Blacksburg Mark Mitchell was 3-6 on field goals , 1-2 on 3 pointers to go along 1 rebound. Dariq Whitehead was 4-6 on field goals , 2-2 on 3 pointers to go along 1 assists, 10 points . Kyle Filipowski was 9-17 on field goals, 4-8 on 3 pointers to go along with 10 rebounds , 2 assists, 29 points. Though, Kyle Filipowski was 9-17 on field goals , 4-8 on 3 pointers to go along with 10 rebounds , 2 assists, 29 points. Kyle Filipowski was hit in the throat by Virginia Tech’s Michael Collins Jr that resulted in Kyle Filipowski throwing up in the huddle. Ryan Young was 4-6 on field goals to go along with 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 8 points . Tyrese Proctor was 4-12 on field goals , 2-6 on 3 pointers to go along with 4 rebounds , 6 assists, 10 points . Dereck Lively II was 2-3 on field goals to go along with 2 rebounds, 4 points . Jaylen Blakes who is playing with broken nose following suffering broken nose in practice was 0-0 on field goals, 0-0 on 3 pointers to go along with 0 rebounds, 0 assists, 0 points . Jeremy Roach who recently came back from toe injury was 3-9 on field goals, 0-4 on 3 pointers to go along 2 rebounds, 3 assists , 6 points. Jacob Grandison was 0-1 on field goals, 0-1 on 3 pointers to go along with 1 rebound, 1 assists , 0 points.

Following Duke losing Dariq Whitehead to left lower leg injury in second half going to lose inaugural meeting of 2022-2023 regular season to Virginia Tech 77-75 Head Coach Jon Scheyer who is coaching his inaugural season as Duke Head Coach had this to say for his opening statement on what challenges Grant Basile presented Duke’s Bigs, On the last possession Duke had where Tyrese Proctor had open three what he was looking for on that play. On Filipowski (Kyle) getting hit in the throat on the last play and his mind set. On if there was anything on defense Duke was hoping to do better that didn’t happen. On the extent of Dariq Whitehead’s injury. He had a great look from the wing, and that wasn’t even necessarily the play. We wanted the ball in [Kyle Filipowski’s] hands, good things happen, really almost every time he touched it we get either a wide open shot or he got a great look himself. And he made a read, made a really good pass to Tyrese [Proctor], they happened to get caught up on that initial action. And we’ll take that any day of the week. Tyrese is wide open, it hits back rim, it’s right there. And sometimes it goes in and sometimes it doesn’t. But we were looking to the put the ball in Flip’s hands.”can tell you, in that play, he got hit so hard that he was throwing up in the huddle. He was full-out throwing up, and he wasn’t about to be out for a second. He was ready to come back in, and we ended up drawing up the play, and put the ball in his hands and we just missed the shot. That’s what happened right before, and he’s a big-time warrior, man. He’s a competitor. He hates to lose, I thought you could see that tonight. He really put us on his back and willed us to put us in a position to win that game.”“They’re a tough team to play, period, but especially on a one-day turnaround. They have so many actionsthey run, they cutso hard, they screen hard. And then Hunter [Cattoor], you don’t have a lot of film on him to show our guys. We know him well, he had seven threes against us in the ACC Championship last year but he’s a big-time player. He changes their team in a huge way because of his threat, the way he moves without the ball, he puts a lot of pressure on your defense. Too many times we got caught without talking. You have to talk really well on switches, when they screen and they get all of these zoom actions. But I thought in the second half, we really dug down, held them to 33 points and did a better job. And they still, they almost shot 50 [percent] from the field. They had one of those nights. They just made a lot of shots too.” On the extent of Dariq Whitehead’s injury: “Haven’t even talked to our medical team yet. He felt something he was jumping there. I need to get some clarity. I don’t know timetable, I don’t know what we’ll do other than get him back, evaluate him and go from there.

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Duke Head Coach Jon Scheyer wasn’t the only coach to share his thoughts following Duke’s 78-75 loss to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg Monday as Virginia Tech Head Coach Mike Young did as well on Virginia Tech’s performance on why Virginia Tech shot so well.

We’re kind of throwing things against the wall in hopesthat we find something that we can get our teeth in. And thatcan sometimes be difficult with our ability to switch. They don’t want to switch with [Ryan] Young and [Dereck] Lively. They will with h Lively, some. They want to keep it man-on-man with their length. And those are really good basketball players. We score 78 in here, make 10 three’s, Hunter Cattoor looked like Hunter Cattoor again, he’s been good, he was good at UVA, I can’t play without him, fellas. [Sean] Pedulla had his best game, by far, in quite some time. He’s a floor general, he had one bad shot in transition, but he played a good basketball game for us. [Grant] Basile was terrific, maybe his best. He was awfully good in here against Dayton, he’s having a good year for us, but he belonged on that floor. Asserted himself, was aggressive, took them into the post a couple of times and bang, bang, got to the charge circle and got up over his left shoulder and got a couple down. He was really good. Really proud of Grant.”not really sure how to answer that. We looked awfully comfortable. Good lord, we’re down 7-0. We had a good rhythm. Pedulla got a bomb down in front of Duke’s bench there during that stretch. The ball had energy, our spacing was quite good, playing the game the way the thing’s supposed to be played. We haven’t done that very well here over the last little bit.

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Head Coaches from both Duke, Virginia Tech weren’t the only ones to share their thoughts following Duke’s 78-75 loss to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg as Duke players did as well.

Those players included junior guard Jeremy Roach, freshman center Kyle Filipowski!

Jeremy Roach shared his thoughts on what it meant for the team to come back from halftime deficit and be in position to win. On what the team needs to do better to win games like this in the future. On if was happy with the last position. On how he felt about Dariq Whitehead’s injury.

It just shows the fight that we have. It shows the potential of our team and how we’ve been growing over the season. We fought hard, we dug ourselves into a hole for sure in the first half. We just let guys get open threes, and all that kind of stuff, so we kind of put it on ourselves. But that’s the fight that we need all 40 minutes, we can’t just do it for one half, we’ve got to do it for all 40.”“I mean, it’s not even offensively. We let them score 70, 70-something points? We’ve got to just double down on defense and get stops. It came down to a one possession game, it was tied up with 30 seconds left, so we’ve just got to get that last stop.”“I would’ve been happy with anybody, Tyrese shooting that shot. I mean, he got an open look, so I’ve got all the confidence in the world for him to hit that shot.”“It hurts because he’s been there for us. He’s had some big-time moments for us. We wanted to get this win for him, for sure. But just praying that he’s okay and he’ll have a speedy recovery.”

Kyle Filipowski shared his thoughts on getting caught in the throat late in the game. On wasn’t working defensively in the first half.

Yeah, he just elbowed me right in my adam’s apple, and Icouldn’t breathe for a minute. So I just needed to throw up and I was good. … as a team, we’re just working our butts off and that’s a game we should totally come out with a win. It just hurts because I know we’re working super hard, we’re getting all this backlash from everyone, but that’sjust bringing uscloser. It’s hard because you hate losing and I think this team is really special.”“I think it was just the giving up too many three-point opportunities. There was a lot of, I wouldn’t say miscommunication between the guards and the bigs off their zoom actions, but they just executed it really well. We adapted to it in the second half and did a much better job with it. That was a little x’s-and-o’s that we could’ve taken care of better in the first half.

“According to goduke.com”

Dariq Whitehead missed four of Duke’s games because he was sidelined with lower leg injury. Those games included when Duke was playing at Georgia Tech on Saturday January 28, 2023 where Duke won 86-43 when Duke hosted Wake Forest in Durham on Tuesday January 31, 2023 where Duke won 75-73 when Duke hosted tobacco road rival North Carolina on Saturday February 4, 2023 where won 63-57 . When Duke hosted then 19th ranked Miami lost to then 19th ranked Miami 81-59 on Monday February 6, 2023 before Dariq Whitehead returned from leg injury when Duke played at Virginia on Saturday February 11, 2023.

“According to Stephen Wiseman’s article on newsobserver.com”

Since returning from the lower leg injury Dariq Whitehead has been contributing offensively for Duke. Dariq Whitehead latest contribution offensively came in Duke’s 79-62 win over Louisville Monday in Durham where he was 2-9 on field goals, 1-5 on 3 pointers to go along 3 rebounds, 1 assists , 5 points.

“According to espnapp”

On Wednesday via social media (Facebook) during Fast Break with Duke Head Coach Jon Scheyer who is coaching his inaugural season as Duke Head Coach along David Shumate who does play by play for Duke Men’s Basketball I asked this question In the inaugural meeting of the regular season with Virginia Tech Blacksburg Dariq Whitehead left with lower leg injury with 17:10 to go in the game With Dariq Whitehead back healthy how much of an impact do you think he will make in rematch with Virginia Saturday (Today) in Durham?

Jon Scheyer’s response?

Dariq Whitehead has been our best shooter to go along with Jeremy Roach as he can stretch the floor.

As Duke is hosting Virginia Tech for rematch in Durham Duke is looking to avenge January 23, 2023 loss to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg where they also lost Dariq Whitehead.

Duke comes into rematch with Virginia Tech with record of 20-8 overall 11-6 in Atlantic Coast Conference is sixth in Atlantic Coast Conference standings because they won their previous Atlantic Coast Conference game when they host Louisville Monday in Durham where Jon Scheyer opposed his former Duke Men’s Basketball teammate who he also coached with at Duke Nolan Smith who currently an Assistant Coach for Kenny Payne at Louisville.

As Jon Scheyer defeated former teammate who he coached with at Duke Nolan Smith 79-62 Mark Mitchell was 5-8 on field goals , 0-1 on 3 pointers to go along with 3 rebounds , 1 assists, 13 points . Kyle Filipowski was 5-7 on field goals , 1-2 on 3 pointers to go along with 7 rebounds , 13 assists like his teammate Mark Mitchell Kyle Filipowski scored 13 points . Dereck Lively II was 3-5 on field goals , 0-1 on 3 pointers to go along with 4 rebounds , 1 assists, 10 points . Tyrese Proctor was 4-13 on field goals , 4-8 on 3 pointers to go along with 4 rebounds , 1 assists, 10 points . Tyrese Proctor was 4-13 on field goals , 4-8 on 3 pointers to go along 4 rebounds, 3 assists , 12 points. Jeremy Roach was 6-9 on field goals to go along 1 rebound, 6 assists , 14 points. Dariq Whitehead was 2-9 on field goals , 1-5 on 3 pointers to go along 1 assists , 5 points . Ryan Young was 1-3 on field goals to go along with 6 rebounds , 3 assists, 3 points . Jacob Grandison was 3-5 on field goals , 3-5 on 3 pointers to go along with 3 rebounds, 1 assists , 9 points.

“According to espnapp”

Following Duke defeating Louisville 79-62 remaining perfect inside Cameron Indoor Stadium (14-0)

Jon Scheyer who is coaching his inaugural season as Duke Head Coach had this to say for his opening statement, on having 19 assists the recently improved ball movement. On the success of quick turnaround from Saturday to Monday. On Tyrese Proctor’s recent defensive improvement!

“I thought it was a big time win for our team. We’ve been in this situation two other times where we play Saturday-Monday, so to come out here and to get the win was really important. Louisville has been playing their best basketball, especially as of late. Just happy to get it done. I do want to say it’s an honor to have C.B. Claiborne here. He came to our shootaround today. Just really special to have him back, and just what he’s done for every single person here at Duke – Duke Athletic Department, Duke Basketball. Incredibly grateful for him being here and honoring him. I thought it was one of Dariq [Whitehead’s] best games actually. I know he didn’t shoot the way he has been, but he didn’t let it impact his game. He made some really nice passes; I thought his defense was really good. Our bench, Jacob Grandison came in and hit three big threes. Ryan Young – [we were plus-24] when he was in the game, I guess that’s on me. Him and Dereck [Lively] have a great one-two punch. We have two great guys there. Then Jeremy [Roach], to close, I thought he wasreally good. Icould go on and on about each of our guys, they allstepped up. Why don’t you ask me questions and I can answer them for you.”“I would say it’s two things. One, we’re getting a feel for each other. Early in the year, we’ve had to do a lot of different things when you talk about the roles that guys are playing, and the continuity; so just the experience of playing with each other, understanding who’s going to be where, and then just understanding the value of every play. Plays that you make in high school, where you drive the ball, defenses are going to collapse and you have to make the right kick and make the right read. I just think the experience of being in those spots really helped. And understanding it’s the difference between winning and losing. When you turn the ball over, it’s a huge difference. Really proud of the last three halves. We had two turnovers in the second half of the Syracuse game until the final minute. Tonight having six, that’s a trend I hope we can continue to see.To me, it just speaks to our growth. That’s what we’ve harped on to our guys all year round. Let’s continue to grow, let’s continue to be at our best when our best is required and when our best is needed down the stretch. You know when they start saying it to each other the message is getting through. They’re taking great ownership because they really want to get this one tonight, just to keep thisthing going. We’ve had a good stretch thislastcouple of weeks– not to say we haven’t had a game where we haven’t played as well. But we’re trending in the right direction and we’ll continue to learn and grow.”“I’ll have to ask our guys for the numbers after this game, but Tyrese – coming in, the last couple of weeks – he’s been, percentage wise, in the 90th percentile in the country when he’s guarding the ball. He does a great job. Anybody gets scored on, but he makes life really difficult. He’sincredibly disciplined, he has great balance, really good attention. He did a great job tonight. [El] Ellisis going to score, and all that, but we have a lot of confidence in him. We feel like our starting perimeter, and we come in the same way off the bench, but Jeremy, Tyrese, and Mark [Mitchell] – that’s a big-time defensive group. That’s why our numbers have been really good on that end.

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Duke Head Coach Jon Scheyer wasn’t the only Head Coach to share his thoughts following Duke’s 79-62 over Louisville as Louisville Head Coach Kenny Payne did as well. Kenny Payne had this to say for his opening statement. On what Duke did defensively to make it difficult for them. On performance of El Ellis and what he’s meant to the team this season. On JJ Traynor and his fight tonight despite injury.

“I thought we played one of the most talented teams in this conference. Even though they’re young, they’re really talented. They have great length. It bothered us. They shot the ball well. They got the ball in the paint. The one thing they did: they dominated us on the boards. I don’t know how many points they had off offensive rebounds, but they dominated us. 16 points. Disappointed in the way we came out and played. Thought we started out pretty good and then we put them on their heels and then when they hit us back, we wilted. We wilted and never got it back. Give them credit. Good team. NCAA Tournament team. They got good players all around the court, one through five, they’re tough to guard and when they do miss shots, they go to the boards.”I thought they denied us all over the court. I thought we refused to get in the bodies and man up and fight to get open. We work on it every day. I just thought that they put us on our heels. At times it looked like the environment intimidated us. Not acceptable. We tried to explain to them what kind of environment this is. We have a coach on the staff who played here,coached here. Went through everything that this program is and what it means to be here and how they were going to come out and play against us. Something didn’t click. We, as coaches, me personally, I take the blame for that. Couldn’t get them to play the way they needed to play with the fight that we needed to get a win.“I’ll just speak on this. He came out and pulled us and willed us to the lead in the beginning of this game. His impact on this team is immense. We go with him and that’s in everything we do. That’s in walkthroughs. That’s in practice. That’s in games. His spirit, it’s a tough thing to be a young man and be a spiritchild because that’s a dangerous position to be in. You decide to take a play or a week or a day or something off, it affects a whole lot of other people. He’s trying. He’s getting better every day. I’m proud of him. He’s gotten better. He works hard. He wants to win. He plays to win. He’s doing what I’m asking him to do. I just need some other guys to step up with him and fight with him.”I like the way JJ played offensively. He finished the game with three rebounds. Points are not it for me. I need guys that’s going to get rebounds; that’s going to get assists; that’s going to play with energy; that’s going to fight. The fact that he shot the ball well and he scored well, I expect that. I also expect him to finish that off with getting me rebounds and fighting on defense. So, he had a good game. He had a pretty good game. I need a winning game.

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Duke Head Coach Jon Scheyer, Louisville Kenny Payne weren’t the only to share their thoughts following Duke’s 79-62 win over Louisville as Duke junior Jeremy Roach, freshman forward Kyle Filipowski, freshman guard Tyrese Proctor did as well.

Jeremy Roach had this to say for his opening statement on how nice it is to have multiple options on offense. On outlook for remainder of the season on if this is coming together collectively.

Louisville’s a tough team. Obviously, they’re playing their best basketball right now. They had a close one with UVa, obviously beat Clemson, so we knew what we were in for. We knew they were playing with house money and they were going to be confident, especially with [Louisville assistant coach, Nolan Smith] coming back. It’s a great team win and I’m happy.”“It’s great just to have all five guys be a threat, especially for our team. We’re so versatile, too. When stuff’s not going my way, I know I’ve got Tyrese [Proctor], I’ve got Mark [Mitchell], I’ve got Flip [Kyle Filipowski], D-Live [Dereck Lively II], and they can step up and hit some big-time shots, too.”“Really, it’s just a sense of urgency right now. It’s the end of the season and we’ve got to get these wins. I think that’s what they’re finally starting to realize – it’s time to go. We’ve had our ups and downs, we’ve had our losses, and we’ve had our learning experiences or whatever. It’s the end of the season and it’s time to go. It’s a sense of urgency. They’re feeling it now, and I think we’re going to keep it going..”

Kyle Filipowski had this to say for his opening statement on recent improvements of this Duke team “Probably the biggest thing we were focusing on was El Ellis and making sure he didn’t get off to a hot start., but congrats to him – he’s a great player and he did just that. We stayed poised. We’ve been in situations where we’ve gone down double digits early in the game and haven’t responded so well, but I think we did a better job of that tonight. We fixed some of the mistakes we were making at the beginning of the game with Ellis and just getting the rebounds. Obviously, that just transitioned to having us have the momentum and making the right reads, the right plays, and that led to us getting the win.” It’s definitely reached another level. I don’t think we’re at our fullest potential yet. Obviously, the sky’sthe limit for us, but we’re definitely making great strides, and we can be a really dangerous team. We are a dangerous team now, but we can be an even more dangerous team come the [ACC] Tournament. We’re definitely starting to reach another level of once we get a lead, [we] expand that lead and don’t give it back up. Obviously, the other team will make some runs back, but it’s definitely how we respond in return to that. We’ve done a really good job of that the last two games, and we’ve just got to keep that moving forward.” “Just having faith in each other – faith that we’ll make the extra pass, make the right play – that all starts in practice and everyone’s doing a great job. The coaches as well, just staying on the same page, just making sure everyone’s on the same page, that transitions to the game and it’s just great for us, so we’re going to keep doing what works best.

Freshman guard Tyrese Proctor had this to say on Louisville’s mind set entering the game on him, Jeremy Roach becoming more and more comfortable being on court together feeding off one another.

“[Louisville] came in with free money and they had nothing to lose, and they’ve been playing their best basketball this month and we knew that coming into the game. Obviously, not winning a Saturday-Monday [quick turnaround games] yet, we knew it was a huge game for us. Just locking in on [El] Ellis and not letting him get in a rhythm, which he did early and then I think we responded and did a really good job.”I think we’ve been clicking a lot this year, and it’s starting to show more. A big thing is just us limiting our turnovers. It just gives us more possessions. Jeremy and I love playing with each other and it’s been fun.

“According to article on goduke.com”

Virginia Tech comes into the rematch with Duke in Durham with record of 16-12 overall 6-11 in the Atlantic Coast Conference is eleventh in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings because unlike Duke Virginia Tech lost their previous Atlantic Coast Conference game to 13th ranked Miami 76-70 Tuesday in Blacksburg Virginia.

As Virginia Tech lost their previous Atlantic Coast Conference game to Miami 76-70 Tuesday in Blacksburg Virginia Grant Basile was 6-12 on field goals , 1-4 on 3 pointers to go along with 4 rebounds, 13 points . Justin Mutts was 4-7 on field goals to go along with 7 rebounds, 5 assists , 9 points . Michael Collins Jr. was 2-5 on field goals, 1-2 on 3 pointers to go along 1 rebound, 4 assists , 5 points. Sean Pedulla was 6-15 on field goals , 2-9 on 3 pointers to go along 6 rebounds , 3 assists, 17 points . Hunter Cattoor was 5-11 on field goals, 5-10 on 3 pointers to go along with 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 15 points . Mylyjael Poteat was 1-1 on field goals to go along with 2 points. Lynn Kidd was 4-6 on field goals to go along 2 rebounds, 9 points . Though, Rodney Rice played 11 minutes he was 0-3 on field goals, 0-2 on 3 pointers to go along 2 rebounds, 0 points.

“According to espnapp”

Tip off is set for 8:00pm from Cameron Indoor Stadium!

The game is going to be televised on ESPN with Debbie Antonelli, Wes Durham are commentating on ESPN!

Debbie Antonelli is a former NC State Women’s Basketball player!

Debbie Antonelli played for former NC State Women’s Basketball Head Coach Kay Yow who died following her battle with breast cancer in 2009.

While playing for former NC State Women’s Basketball Head Coach Kay Yow NC State Women’s Basketball made the NCAA Tournament all four years she played as a forward, as well as two Sweet 16 appearances.

“According to Debbie Antonelli’s biography on espnnewsroom.com”