Duke Postgame Notes Louisville 80, Duke 73 (OT) February 27, 2021 – Cameron Indoor Stadium– Durham, N.C.

Team Notes • is in his 41st season as Duke’s head coach, and his record is now 1,095-300 at Duke, and 1,168-359 overall in this, his 46th season overall. • The game was the 19th in the series vs. Louisville, with Duke now leading 10-9. In home games, the series is now tied 3-3, with each coming at Cameron Indoor Stadium. • Each of Duke’s seven ACC losses this season are by no more than seven points. • Louisville has won three straight and five of the last eight in the series. • Louisville is the first team, other than North Carolina, to sweep a two-game regular season series from Duke since Maryland in 2007. • Duke is 11-5 since the start of the 2017-18 season when playing an opponent for the second time in the regular season. • Duke is now 70-62 all-time in overtime games, including 35-28 in the Coach K era. • It was the first overtime game in the series vs. Louisville. • Over the last seven games, Duke is averaging 19.0 assists and has assisted on 61.8% of its made field goals. • Duke has now connected on at least one three-point in 1,110 consecutive games – the nation’s second longest active streak.

Player Notes • Sophomore Matthew Hurt scored a career-high 37 points on 15-of-21 shooting, including 2-of-6 from three-point range and 5-of-6 from the line. • It was Hurt’s first career 30-point game and the first 30-point game by a Blue Devil since Vernon Carey Jr., scored 31 vs. Cal at Madison Square Garden on 11/21/19. • Hurt’s 37 points were the most by a Blue Devil since 37 by Grayson Allen vs. Michigan State in the 2017 Champions Classic at the United Center in Chicago. • Hurt played a career-high 43 minutes. • Hurt’s 15-of-21 (.714) shooting ties for the sixth-best percentage all-time at Duke with a minimum of 20 attempts. It is the second-best percentage on a minimum of 20 attempts in the Coach K era, trailing only Danny Ferry’s 23-of-26 (.885) at Miami on 12/10/88. Ferry scored a Duke single-game record 58 points in that game. • Hurt’s 37 points were the second-most scored by a Duke sophomore, trailing only 38-point efforts by Bill Reigel at Wake Forest (2/12/53) and Jason Williams vs. Kentucky (12/18/01). • Hurt accounted for 15 of Duke’s 26 made field goals (57.7 percent) – the second-highest percentage of field goals to one player at Duke – and the most against a Division-I opponent, trailing only Gordon Carver, who made seven of Duke’s 11 field goals in a win over Norfolk NAS (1/5/44) – a 61-28 Duke loss. • Hurt has averaged 24.0 points and shot .688 from the field (44-of-64) and .600 from three-point range (18-of-30) over Duke’s last five games. • Freshman DJ Steward extended his three-point streak to 17 consecutive games. • Senior Jordan Goldwire finished with six assists – one shy of his career high. He is averaging 4.3 assists over Duke’s last seven games.

Next Game • Duke plays its final two regular season games on the road, starting Tuesday at Georgia Tech at 8 p.m. ET on ACC Network.