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NEW YORK — On the verge of a short ACC tournament stay thanks to gutsy play by short-handed Syracuse, No. 7 Duke finally found its stride in the final minutes to escape on Thursday.

“I was playing for this kid today,” Jimmy said, as his brother was suspended for Thursday’s game vs. Duke.

DURHAM, N.C. — If Chuck Swenson goes back in time far enough he can still hear the jeers and the insults, the slurs he said some shouted from the stands during one of the longest nights of Mike Krzyzewski’s coaching career, and perhaps the longest of them all. It has…

No matter who emerged from Wednesday’s ACC tournament second-round game between Syracuse and Florida State, top-seeded Duke awaited a third meeting of the season between the teams.

Boeheim will miss Thursday's game after he was seen punching a player in Syracuse’s win over Florida State.

The Illini and Badgers were conference co-champs in the regular season, and a couple of awards don’t do anything to tip the scales. That’s what the Big Ten tournament is for.

Jay Wright was two lackluster years into his tenure at Villanova in May 2003, so far from being considered the best coach in college basketball that the assertion would have seemed laughable, certainly not a credible candidate for the job that had just become available in his hometown.

Syracuse vs Duke prediction, college basketball game preview, how to watch, lines, and why each team might - or might not - win on Thursday.

Hansbrough compared Mike Krzyzewski’s final game in Durham to a recent episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”