Acc Postseason Preview 2016

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POSTSEASON PREVIEW

GRAYSON ALLEN: DUKE’S POLARIZING STAR • TOURNEY BRACKET: PREVIEWING THE FIELD

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What’s inside

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‘HE’S A WARRIOR’

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GANG OF SIX

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STAYING FRESH

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INGRAM’S IMPACT

Under intense national scrutiny, Grayson Allen leads Duke

The rigor of the Blue Devils’ sixman rotation has taken its toll

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Previewing the ACC tournament’s top six seeds

Brandon Ingram looks to rediscover his mid-season form

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Derryck Thornton has been put to the test against the ACC’s best

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DUKE’S MOST POLARIZING FIGURE

HERO? VILLAIN? ‘HE’S A WARRIOR’ Brian Pollack The Chronicle

Throughout his two seasons at Duke, Grayson Allen has worn many hats.

The almost-forgotten fourth member of a stacked No. 1 recruiting class. The postseason hero who made a name for himself at the Final Four. A prolific scorer lauded by fans, teammates and coaches alike for his efforts on the court.

And, most recently, the recipient of national ire for the way he has treated some opponents.

The initial transgression came in Duke’s 72-65 win against then-No. 13 Louisville Feb. 8—the first of the Blue Devils’ three straight victories against ranked foes. Allen drove to the hoop through contact midway through the second half and fell to the floor after his layup missed the mark. As Cardinals forward Raymond Spalding snagged the rebound and looked to start a fast break, he found himself tripping over Allen’s outstretched leg, which the Duke guard had extended while lying on the floor.

The referees deemed the offense worthy of a flagrant one foul, but the court of public opinion viewed it as a far more malicious act. The Internet flooded with videos of the trip and criticisms of Allen’s conduct, quick to anoint him as the next “Duke villain” in a succession of small, white and—to the nation at large—generally unlikable guards to come through Durham.

When the Blue Devils tipped off at Louisville less than two weeks later, the tensions intensified even further. Allen was involved in a scrum for a loose ball in

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Sophomore Grayson Allen is on pace to set an ACC record for the biggest year-to-year increase in scoring average, but that has not kept him from drawing national scrutiny for multiple on-court incidents this season.

the second half and emerged with a visibly bloody lip after receiving a direct elbow blow from Cardinal forward Jaylen Johnson, who was given a technical foul.

“We both dove for the ball and in a scrum there’s a lot of arms and hands going everywhere,” Allen said. “I caught a stray elbow, I don’t know from who, in the lip and just came down on my tooth.”

That confrontation proved to be a critical juncture in the game—what was a 10-point Duke lead quickly vanished as Louisville

stormed back in the final 13 minutes to claim a seven-point win. With four minutes left to play, the frustrations finally boiled over for Allen, who was whistled for his fifth foul on a charge and let loose an angry string of expletives captured on national television.

This added another layer to the villain narrative. Now the public had not only the tripping incident as ammunition to fire at him, but also a documented instance of him complaining loudly at the referees. Many

already viewed Allen as whiny due to his penchant for initiating contact and drawing fouls, but after the game Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski went out of his way to defend his most scrutinized star.

“You take a look at the play, it’s not close. Whatever close means, it’s not close,” Krzyzewski said. “Look, he’s been beat up the whole season. He’s a warrior, and he’s one of the great warriors in college basketball. But he doesn’t get what he’s a warrior for, at times.... Would we like

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Austin Peer | The Chronicle Grayson Allen delivered a buzzer-beating runner Feb. 13 to send the Blue Devils past Virginia in one of Duke’s marquee wins during the regular season.

him not to have that reaction? Yes. Do I understand why he had it? Yes.” But the most blatant offense was still yet to come. As the clock ticked down on Duke’s 80-65 victory against Florida State Feb. 25, Allen—in plain sight of the officials—swung his leg behind him and tripped Seminole guard Xavier Rathan-Mayes in an action that could hardly be construed as incidental contact but did not result in a foul.

If the anti-Allen crowd enjoyed the previous incidents, it feasted on this one.

The national media was quick to pick up yet another questionable play involving the Duke guard, and there were rumors he could be suspended by either Krzyzewski or the ACC. But the conference ultimately decided to issue a public reprimand of Allen, which amounted to an allegedly stern finger-wagging with no consequences in

terms of playing time on the court.

“I called the ACC the morning after the game and told them that I had talked to [Florida State head coach] Leonard Hamilton. After I saw the thing, I brought Grayson in that night and talked to him. I told the ACC, ‘This is what we’ve done. You tell us what to do,’” Krzyzewski said after a Feb. 28 loss at Pittsburgh. “If anything was called, it would be a flagrant one. So all this suspension thing and that, look, I would not suspend any player for what would be a flagrant one…. What he got was the stiffest reprimand a player has gotten in our conference this year. There have been other guys who’ve hit people and whatever, and there have been no reprimands.”

Now, it seemed, Allen had gotten away with highway robbery, and no villain is easier to hate than one who gets to play by

his own rules. As Duke hit the road for its contest in the Steel City, the home crowd held nothing back. Even during pre-game warmups, Allen was bombarded with hordes of taunts and accusations from Pittsburgh’s Oakland Zoo, not to mention several signs directing insults at him.

With all that weighing on their shoulders, the Blue Devils turned in arguably their worst performance of the season, a 76-62 dud in which the Panthers jumped out to a 10-0 lead and never looked back. The normally aggressive Allen picked up just one personal foul—only his second ACC game with less than two after, ironically, accruing zero during the Florida State game—and turned the ball over four times as Duke never really got its act together.

“There’s no question that had an impact on our team at Pitt, because we were all distracted by that level of attention to that level of activity,” Krzyzewski said heading into the regular-season finale. “In some ways, I was amazed—totally amazed—and I’m sure Grayson was too. And so then you are not focused, you’re not you. We weren’t us.”

The Blue Devils have yet to return to top form in their two games following the Pittsburgh loss, but Allen certainly has, with a combined 59 points and eight 3-pointers against Wake Forest and North Carolina. Amid all the negativity, the Jacksonville, Fla., native has been Duke’s most consistent performer on the court and carried the team for much of ACC play with a relentless motor and unmatched effort. He scored at least 15 points in each of the team’s 18 conference games and is on pace to set an ACC record after boosting his scoring average by 17.1 points per game in one year.

Allen finally received some positive press this week, garnering second team AllAmerican recognition from USA Today and

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a spot on the All-ACC first team. As the Blue Devils head into the ACC tournament this week in Washington, there is little doubt that he will be one of the most important, and polarizing, players on the court— regardless of the opponent.

And, as always, all eyes will be on Allen— for better or for worse.

“Nobody wants to be hated. But in this game, it happens. As teammates, we just have to do a better job making sure he doesn’t feel alone, that he knows that he has guys that love him and have his back,” junior captain Matt Jones said. “I just told him I’d have his back through the ups and the downs. We would always be teammates, we’d always be brothers—simple as that. I can’t really say anything to make people not hate him. It’s just more like reassurance to make sure that he knew that he had people on his side and in his corner.”

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle After struggling at Pittsburgh, Grayson Allen has scored 59 points in his last two games.

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PREVIEWING THE TOP SIX SEEDS

1. NORTH CAROLINA North Carolina enjoyed one of its most dominant seasons in recent history after returning all but one major contributor from last season. Five Tar Heels averaged more than 10 points per game through the regular season, with senior Brice Johnson headlining the pack with 16.8 points and 10.8 rebounds per game—making him one of three players in the ACC to average a double-double on the season.

Forward Justin Jackson, center Kennedy Meeks and point guard Marcus Paige all contribute to a skilled and seasoned roster, which clinched the program’s first ACC regular-season title since 2012 with a win in Durham against the Blue Devils in the regular-season finale.

After losing early in the season to Northern Iowa, North Carolina asserted itself as a top contender with a decisive 89-81 win against then-No. 2 Maryland.

The Tar Heels rattled off 12 straight wins, but then lost to then-No. 19 Louisville and unranked Notre Dame back-to-back on the road in early February. The Tar

Heels split their series against Duke, and added a lopsided 96-71 win against thenNo. 11 Miami to bolster their resume.

North Carolina also lost a tight contest to then-No. 3 Virginia on the road late in the season. With the emergence of ACC Sixth Man of the Year Isaiah Hicks as a force off the bench, Williams’ squad boasts one of the most intimidating frontcourts in the country, capable of wreaking havoc on the glass to compensate for outside shooting that has failed the Tar Heel guards at times.

—Meredith Cash

3. MIAMI ACC Coach of the Year Jim Larrañaga and his Miami squad are poised to return to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2013, but the Hurricanes have some unfinished business to take care of in the ACC tournament first. Miami could have clinched a share of the regular-season title with a win Saturday against Virginia Tech, but instead suffered through a sloppy performance against an upset-minded Hokie squad, finishing the regular season tied with Virginia for second place behind North Carolina.

But that should not phase the Hurricanes, who enter the postseason with wins against Duke, Virginia, Louisville and Utah under their belts, and are a deep, experienced team ready for a run in March.

A major reason why is the team’s talented backcourt. Redshirt senior Sheldon McClellan is one of the most dangerous shooting guards in the nation, posting 15.7 points per game and a 49.5 percent clip from the field, and Angel Rodriguez is a scrappy point guard that has a knack for getting by his man and dishing off to

teammates around the rim. Center Tonye Jekiri is a force to be reckoned with in the paint, shooting better than 50 percent from the field and pulling down 9.1 rebounds per game.

All the pieces are in place for Miami, but a major question is whether it can avoid a major letdown like it did on Saturday in the loss to Virginia Tech. This has to be an area of concern for Larrañaga, whose team has also suffered disappointing losses to Clemson, N.C. State and Northeastern earlier in the season.

—Brian Mazur

5. DUKE For a team coming off a national championship, expectations in Durham were high entering 2015-16. With just four players returning, though, the Blue Devils got off to a rocky start and dropped neutral-site games to Kentucky and Utah. During the rest of nonconference play, Duke only picked up one critical win at home against Indiana, and lost senior captain Amile Jefferson to a foot fracture in early December that wound up claiming the rest of his season.

The Blue Devils started ACC play 4-4— including a stretch of three straight losses to unranked opponents in Clemson, Notre Dame and Syracuse, with the last two coming inside the friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium. The losses cost Duke its spot in the top 25 for the first time since 2007, but a pair of one-point wins against Virginia and at North Carolina brought the team right back into the picture.

Although the Blue Devils head into the postseason having won just two of their last five games, they are doing so with limited resources. Not including minutes by sparingly

used freshman Chase Jeter, Duke has used a six-man rotation for much of the season.

Grayson Allen leads the way with his aggressive style of play, and graduate student Marshall Plumlee—at 8.1 points and 8.7 rebounds per game—has improved markedly from last season and provided leadership for a young backcourt that includes veteran Matt Jones as well as freshmen Derryck Thornton and Luke Kennard. Throw in ACC Freshman of the Year Brandon Ingram and his 16.7 points per game, and the Blue Devils certainly have made the most of what their depth-strapped roster has to offer.

—Mitchell Gladstone

2. VIRGINIA

With a preseason No. 6 ranking in the AP poll and a projected second-place finish in the ACC, Virginia has remained steadily strong throughout one of the most competitive college basketball seasons in recent memory.

After dropping their second game of the year at George Washington, the Cavaliers went on a tear in nonconference play, recording key resume wins against then-No. 14 West Virginia, then-No. 12 Villanova and California in back-to-back-to-back games in December before entering conference play.

Despite a two-point loss on the road Jan. 4 at rival Virginia Tech—which sits at 87 in the RPI— the Cavaliers avoided any catastrophic results at John Paul Jones Arena this season. With key wins on the road at Louisville and Pittsburgh, and home victories against Miami, Notre Dame, North Carolina and the Cardinals, Bennett’s squad landed the No. 2 seed in the tournament, and could find itself in a similar position—or better—come Selection Sunday.

Redshirt seniors Malcolm Brogdon and Anthony Gill lead Virginia into the double-bye after winning three straight games and 11 out of

the team’s last 13, which includes a loss on the final shot at Duke and a 3-point nail-biter against the Hurricanes. Brogdon—the ACC Player of the Year—has proven deadly from beyond the arc this season, shooting at a 41.1 percent clip en route to his team-high 18.4 points per game. On the block, Gill has cleaned up the glass for 6.1 rebounds per game and is second on the team with 13.6 points per contest. If the two dominant Cavaliers are struggling, they can look to guard London Perrantes to pick up the slack with his 11.2 points and 4.1 assists per game and lightsout 50.8 percent clip from downtown.

—Seth Johnson

4. NOTRE DAME Even after losing mainstays Jerian Grant and Pat Connaughton from last year’s Elite Eight squad, the Fighting Irish still boast one of the top offenses in the ACC. All five Notre Dame starters score in double-figures, and Brey’s squad ranks third in basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy’s adjusted offensive efficiency metric, even after a bit of a late-season slide. Jackson has filled the sizable hole at floor general left by Grant’s departure, directing an offense predicated on ball movement and spacing with 5.0 assists per game—a mark good for second in the ACC. The Fighting Irish prefer to go with a four-out, one-in attack and can spread the floor around Jackson with shooters like Steve Vasturia and V.J. Beachem or pound the ball inside with the duo of Zach Auguste and Bonzie Colson.

Notre Dame’s defense, though, leaves much to be desired and the team ranks dead last in the conference

with opponents shooting 37.9 percent from 3-point range against them. The Fighting Irish picked up signature wins in conference play against North Carolina and Louisville and secured the No. 4 seed and a double-bye in the ACC tournament with the Blue Devils’ loss to the Tar Heels Saturday.

—Brian Pollack

6. VIRGINIA TECH The Hokies were one of the most surprising teams in the ACC in Williams’ second year at the helm, taking a giant leap forward to finish in seventh place after two straight lastplace finishes at 2-16 in conference play. They started strong and finished stronger, upsetting then-No. 4 Virginia in their second conference game before closing out the regular season on a five-game winning streak, punctuated by a convincing 77-62 victory Saturday against No. 7 Miami.

Redshirt juniors Seth Allen and Zach Leday both had impressive years to start their Virginia Tech careers after transferring from Maryland and South Florida, respectively, and sophomore Justin Bibbs averaged 12.2 points per game as the third-leading scorer to round out a balanced attack. Bibbs is a 47 percent 3-point shooter—good for the second-best clip in the ACC—but cooled off after a torrid start to the year and shot 39 percent from long

range in conference play.

The Hokies had too many nonconference defeats—including a season-opening loss against Alabama State—to be a serious threat to make the NCAA tournament barring a deep ACC tournament run, but they have a bright future with only one senior on their roster this year. Virginia Tech has finished the year on a roll and could build some momentum heading into next season with a few postseason wins in Washington and possibly in the NIT. —Hank Tucker

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LIFE WITHOUT JEFFERSON

Depth issues a concern heading into postseason Jack Dolgin The Chronicle When Duke announced March 5 that Amile Jefferson’s season was finished, the Blue Devils lost any hope they had of injecting the senior’s nightly double-double back into a depth-strapped roster.

With Jefferson confined to the sidelines, Duke may be forced to deal with a disappointing reality. This year will be one of what-ifs.

Flashback to Dec. 2, when Jefferson tattooed Indiana with six offensive rebounds and eight assists in what has turned into one of Duke’s most impressive wins of the season. Less than two weeks later, Jefferson was gone— placed in a hard cast after fracturing his right foot diving for a loose ball in practice.

“Look, it’s a huge period of adjustment for us,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said Dec. 15 after the Blue Devils’ first game without Jefferson.

“Amile was our best big guy.”

Two games after Jefferson went down, the Blue Devils fell to a tall Utah team in New York, a sign of what was to come.

Duke knew it would have to find a way to deal with its lack of height. After all, with Jefferson, the Blue Devils had five solid perimeter players, two veteran post presences and a developing big man.

Now, with all the injuries that have piled up, Duke is lucky to have six healthy go-to guys.

“Who are we going to sub? That’s it,” Krzyzewski said after a short-handed, one-point win at North Carolina Feb. 17.

Duke has course-corrected to an extent. Graduate student center Marshall Plumlee has flourished in his final season, more than tripling his scoring and rebounding numbers from last season and pulling down six doubledoubles. The Warsaw, Ind., native has also adjusted to his larger role by learning to play through foul trouble, and played at least 28 minutes in every one of the team’s 18 conference games.

Plumlee picked up his fourth foul early in the second half in a loss at Clemson Jan. 13, costing the Blue Devils dearly. But his newfound discipline was on full display against the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill when, with four fouls and more than 10 minutes remaining, Plumlee came back in the game and contained a havoc-wreaking Brice Johnson without committing a fifth foul.

Duke’s reliance on pushing players to their limits, though, is not necessarily sustainable. Freshman point guard Derryck Thornton injured his shoulder against Louisville, junior guard Matt Jones has tweaked both ankles in the last month and sophomore guard Grayson Allen has been beat up throughout the season thanks to his reckless abandon as he drives through the paint.

Even ACC Freshman of the Year Brandon Ingram is showing signs of wear on his body. The 6-foot-9 swingman, after all, has played at least 37 minutes in seven of Duke’s last eight games and

Sophie Turner | The Chronicle Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski has had to get strategic about the way he keeps his players fresh, with Amile Jefferson’s injury limiting the Blue Devil rotation to seven players.

has missed nearly two-thirds of his field goals in that span.

“He’s worn down some,” Krzyzewski said last week. “[And] because he’s not fully developed yet, it probably affects him a little bit more.”

Ingam’s shooting has impacted the team’s shooting. After finishing below 40 percent from the field only twice in the first 28 games, Duke has shot below 40 percent in each of its last three games.

Thornton, only 18 years old, is also 14

of his last 51 from the field in the team’s final seven regular-season games.

Krzyzewski has always encouraged his players to keep shooting, and he has little recourse if the slumps continue.

Ingram sat for more than 10 minutes in the first half against North Carolina Saturday after picking up two quick fouls, but Duke’s head coach kept him on the floor with four fouls for most of See DEPTH on Page 18

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MINUTES TAKING A TOLL

Ingram trying to power through heavy workload Sameer Pandhare The Chronicle The morning after playing a full 40 minutes in Duke’s 74-73 victory against North Carolina in Chapel Hill Feb. 17, freshman Brandon Ingram woke up sore. At just 190 pounds, the Kinston, N.C., native had spent much of the previous night attacking the rim against the duo of 230-pound Brice Johnson and 260-pound Kennedy Meeks in the interior.

Despite putting up 20 points and 10 rebounds in the win, Ingram had more work to do, none of which was on the court. The freshman knew he needed to get back in the training room to build himself up for a stretch run that he hopes will include a deep run in the ACC tournament and more than just one weekend in the NCAA tournament.

“I tried to gain weight in high school, but I don’t think I took it as seriously,” Ingram said back in early October. “Now that I’m here and I’m around everything and I’m around the weight room, it’s easier for me to do.”

But since that come-from-behind victory, things have gone wayward for the freshman. After helping lead Duke to consecutive victories against thenNo. 13 Louisville, then-No. 7 Virginia and then-No. 5 North Carolina, Ingram averaged just 13.2 points per game on 33.3 percent shooting in the Blue Devils’ last five games of the regular season.

After shouldering the load during a

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Freshman Brandon Ingram became the third straight Blue Devil to win ACC Freshman of the Year despite a late-season slump.

time when Duke was teetering on the edge of missing the NCAA tournament, the freshman’s heavy minutes may have finally caught up to him.

Ingram started the season slow, with a rough four-point performance in just 19 minutes in the Champions Classic against then-No. 2 Kentucky showing

that much work was needed. But after finding his touch from the outside and developing the strength needed to take the ball to the basket, the swingman quickly became the star the Blue Devils needed alongside Grayson Allen.

“I thought he would be really good—he’s even better,” Duke head

coach Mike Krzyzewski said before the team’s regular-season finale against the Tar Heels. “You just have to tell him once. No maintenance. No extra time of explaining. His basketball intellect is super high, and he has a great feel See INGRAM on Page 15

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1. NORTH CAROLINA 8. PITTSBURGH

9. SYRACUSE 12. N.C. STATE

4. NOTRE DAME 12. N.C. STATE

13. WAKE FOREST 5. DUKE 2. VIRGINIA 7. CLEMSON

10. GEORGIA TECH 11. FLORIDA STATE

3. MIAMI 11. FLORIDA STATE

14. BOSTON COLLEGE 6. VIRGINIA TECH

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ADJUSTING TO THE NEXT LEVEL

In point-guard heavy ACC, Thornton’s defense key

Eric Lin | The Chronicle Freshman Derryck Thornton has had several tough defensive assignments this season, including N.C. State point guard Anthony “Cat” Barber and Virginia’s London Perrantes.

raised his voice to get things moving, yelling something that was part helping hand, part urgent frustration.

“What do you want?”

The Blue Devils finally got their offense going in a 113-75 blowout, continuing to get their inexperienced floor general acclimated to the speed and pressure of the college game.

“The point guard position’s a really tough position to play, especially at Duke,” Plumlee said after that game. “I’m really proud of how Derryck’s been getting better every day in practice and in games. In that particular play, I just wanted to make sure we were set

Meredith Cash The Chronicle It’s November 14, and Duke is playing its second game of the season against Bryant, trying to incorporate a new cast of characters into a roster that bears little resemblance to the one that brought home a national championship just seven months prior.

Freshman Derryck Thornton is tasked with initiating the offense, but takes a while to call out an offensive set. One of the few Blue Devil veterans remaining on the team, graduate student captain Marshall Plumlee,

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In the one-and-done era, freshmen have come to dominate college basketball just months after playing in high school and are now expected to adapt to a much faster, more physical game without any semblance of a hitch. But only a select few players whose talent and athleticism transcend age can pull off this feat. For the rest, it takes time to adjust.

Thornton’s work was cut out for him even before he got to Durham. He committed to the Blue Devils just 15 days after Tyus Jones’ 23-point performance helped Duke capture the national title. Jones declared for the NBA soon after, leaving the Blue Devils with no star point guard and no veteran floor general to guide Thornton in his development.

Still, Thornton has worked his way into the starting lineup on a young squad and has delivered some nifty plays off the dribble throughout the season. But after reclassifying to come to Duke—essentially playing up a year with older, more experienced players— the Chatsworth, Calif., native heads into the postseason still searching for the consistent, complete game that separates seasoned players from rookies.

Thornton finished the regular season averaging 7.6 points, 2.5 assists and 1.7 turnovers per game and struggled with his shot throughout ACC play, scoring fewer than 10 points in all but one of Duke’s conference contests on 35.0 percent shooting. He capped off the regular season with three points against North Carolina and did not notch a single assist in just 15 minutes—his fewest minutes

since a two-point performance against Notre Dame Jan. 16.

Although the offense has not always been there, Thornton has delivered important contributions on the other end of the court. He has faced off against some of the most seasoned and talented point guards in college basketball—from Kentucky’s Tyler Ulis to Virginia’s London Perrantes and Tar Heel Marcus Paige—and kept up with them all.

“Ever since I was young, my dad stressed to me how important defense was,” Thornton said before the season began. “If you score and then lock down your defender, you’re going to win. It’s not all about offense. I really think that basketball starts on defense.”

When Duke hosted N.C. State Feb. 6, Thornton was tasked with containing the most proficient scorer in the ACC in Anthony “Cat” Barber. The freshman held him to just nine points on 3-of-6 shooting from the floor in the first half, staying in front of him and not letting him get open looks in the lane.

Although Barber came alive for 17 points on 5-of-8 shooting from the field in the final 20 minutes, Thornton was only responsible for guarding him during select stretches of that period.

The Blue Devils then entered their toughest four-game stretch of the season, which for Thornton meant a murderer’s row of standout point guards. After scoring four points in a win against Louisville Feb. 8, Thornton was matched up with Perrantes—the ACC’s most accurate 3-point shooter at 50.8 percent—who did See THORNTON on Page 14

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If Thornton’s defensive contributions had not been celebrated to this point in the season, they took center stage when the Blue Devils traveled down Tobacco Road to take on then-No. 5 North Carolina. Sophomore Grayson Allen’s two free throws with just more than a minute remaining put Duke up by one, and after the two sides exchanged misses,

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the Tar Heels had one more opportunity to pull ahead.

On the game’s final play, the ball fell into the hands of sophomore guard Joel Berry II, who tried to chuck up a lastditch effort over Thornton, but the young guard responded with a stifling block to secure the Blue Devil upset.

“Either he’s going to make it or I’m going to get a stop, so I really put everything on the line to stop him,” Thornton said.

Three days later, Thornton fell awkwardly on his right shoulder in a loss at Louisville, but returned late in the game to play through the pain and briefly

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As Jones showed last season, guard play is crucial when the postseason rolls around. If the Blue Devils want to make a run at the ACC tournament crown, the likeliest path rolls through Barber and the Wolfpack on Wednesday, Demetrius Jackson and Notre Dame on Thursday, Paige and the Tar Heels on Friday and either Perrantes’ Cavaliers or Angel Rodriguez and Miami on Saturday, meaning Thornton will again have to step up his game—this time with everything on the line.

“Derryck has just seen a constant improvement,” Krzyzewski said. “A lot of times, you see more improvement in a really good player when you’re in conference because he’s playing against Georgia Tech and a fifth-year player, a senior or a fifth-year player. You’re playing against Barber, who’s one of the best players in America. You’re playing against Perrantes, you’re playing against Snyder from Louisville. You’re playing against really good people and that brings out more. But he’s done a really good job, a really really good job for us, and keeps getting better, so hopefully we can see that continue.”

Jesús Hidalgo | The Chronicle Freshman Derryck Thornton delivered one of Duke’s biggest defensive plays of the season by blocking North Carolina’s Joel Berry II Feb. 17 in Chapel Hill to preserve a win.

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Sophie Turner | The Chronicle Freshman Brandon Ingram has shot just 33.3 percent from the floor in his last six games as the Blue Devils enter postseason play.

INGRAM from page 9 for the game.”

Starting with a breakout performance against Indiana Dec. 2 in which he scored 18 first-half points, Ingram went on a roll and averaged 19.7 points per game in his next 19 games. But lost in the picture may have been the toll that big minutes took on the 18-year-old’s lanky body.

With the team dealing with the absence of captain Amile Jefferson and a short seven-man rotation that often feels more like six, Ingram played more than 37 minutes in a game 12 times in that span—a number that would have been

higher if not for occasional struggles with foul trouble.

The freshman has averaged 33.9 minutes per game overall, exceeding the 30.7 minutes and 30.1 minutes that freshmen Jabari Parker and Jahlil Okafor averaged respectively in their single seasons at Duke. In fact, no Blue Devil freshman has racked up more minutes per game than Ingram since Jay Williams in 1999-2000.

Ingram’s versatility will force Krzyzewski to keep him on the floor— foul trouble or not—as the undermanned Blue Devils enter postseason play. The swingman presents a nightmare matchup for almost every team in the country with his ability to shoot over

defenders and beat bigger forwards off the dribble. With Ben Simmons— the odds-on favorite to be the No. 1 pick in the upcoming NBA draft—and Louisiana State likely to miss the NCAA tournament, an even bigger spotlight will shine on the 6-foot-9 forward, who many expect to be the second name off the draft board in June.

Even on his worst nights, Ingram has displayed skills that leave opposing coaches shaking their heads. After scoring just eight points and committing a career-high 10 turnovers against Louisville’s physical fullcourt press in a 71-64 loss Feb. 20, not all takeaways from the game were as negative as one would imagine.

“Ingram reminds me so much of [Oklahoma City Thunder star] Kevin Durant, and that’s about as high a compliment as you can get because even though he’s physically thin, he’s not weak,” Louisville head coach Rick Pitino said.

“Some guys are physically thin, but same thing with Durant—he’s going to get better and better and better. Beautiful-looking stroke, great length, handles it, passes it— he’s going to be a great pro.”

Despite the fanfare he receives on offense, Ingram is as big a piece as any on defense for the Blue Devils. With his 7-foot-3 wingspan, the freshman has allowed Duke to employ 2-3 and 1-3-1 zones, clogging passing lanes and disrupting the other team’s offensive flow. After a slow start to his college career, Ingram has also picked up his production on the boards in Jefferson’s absence and averaged 7.6 rebounds per game during conference play.

“Whenever I’m coming down on [offense] and playing against him in practice, it makes you have second thoughts about making any passes,” freshman Derryck Thornton said. “That takes time

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Jack White | The Chronicle Brandon Ingram’s ability to drive the lane helps open up the perimeter for his teammates.

off the clock and you have to make sure everything is hard and sharp because if you mess up even a little bit, he’ll get a steal or he’ll get a hand on the ball.”

The three-day break between the end of the regular season and the beginning of the ACC tournament often serves as a nice reset for teams after a grueling conference schedule, and perhaps no one needs it as much as Ingram.

Ingram overcame his early-season struggles to bring home ACC Freshman of the Year honors—the third straight Blue Devil rookie to do so. But after following in the footsteps of Parker and Okafor by capturing the regularseason hardware, Duke’s swingman now has one more mountain to climb—replicating Okafor’s postseason success.

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PREVIEWING THE REMAINING SEEDS 7. CLEMSON

After being predicted to finish 12th in the ACC, the Tigers became one of the league’s surprise teams during the first month of conference play. Led by Blossomgame’s versatility, Clemson knocked off Louisville, Duke and Miami at home during a three-game January stretch en route to recording just the fifth 10-win ACC regular season in school history.

Although Blossomgame is the engine that makes the Tigers go, frontcourt mates Donte Grantham and Landry Nnoko also make Clemson a dangerous team on the glass. The key for the Tigers is whether their backcourt can bounce back from a disappointing finish to the regular season. Clemson lost three of its last four games—including one to Georgia Tech, which it faces to open the ACC tournament Wednesday—and five of its last eight, meaning senior guard Jordan Roper and company will need to spark a big ACC tournament run for the Tigers to make the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2011.

Blossomgame has developed into one of the best players in the country as a junior, and the Tigers will need him to continue his hot perimeter shooting—the forward made at least three 3-pointers in each of Clemson’s last four regular-season games—to make a run. Blossomgame put up 31 points against Virginia in a sevenpoint loss Tuesday, so if the Tigers can get past Georgia Tech and upset the Cavaliers, their star could carry them deep into the ACC tournament.

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9. SYRACUSE The Orange enter the ACC tournament dangerously under-seeded after the team went just 4-5 while head coach Jim Boeheim was away serving a nine-game suspension, including an 0-3 start to league action. Syracuse has emerged a stronger, more formidable team since Boeheim’s return, notching wins against Duke and Notre Dame.

Redshirt seniors Michael Gbinije and Trevor Cooney guide the Orange on the court, averaging a combined 30.5 points, 6.6 rebounds and 6.9 assists per game.

Freshman Malachi Richardson has also stepped up in a big way, bringing his shooting prowess to the Syracuse backcourt alongside Cooney. The Orange have struggled to establish themselves on the boards in their losses, and head into the tournament on a two-game skid during which they were out rebounded 83-60. Junior forward Tyler Roberson provides a strong body inside capable of snagging misses, but

Syracuse lacks the overall size to go toeto-toe with some of the ACC’s bigger teams. Boeheim’s squad can pride itself on how it pulled together to save the season, but the group will need to showcase its consistency moving forward if it hopes to make a deep run for the ACC title.

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11. FLORIDA STATE The Seminoles returned all five starters from the 2014-15 campaign and added talented freshmen guards Dwayne Bacon and Malik Beasley to the mix but finished with the same 8-10 ledger in conference play this year. The pair contributed a combined 31.5 points per game to lead to the conference’s third-ranked scoring offense, but off nights for Bacon and Beasley made it difficult for the team to settle into a rhythm.

Florida State’s tough schedule to kick off conference play did not help its hopes of a winning season as then-No. 7 North Carolina outlasted the Seminoles 106-90 Jan. 4 and then No. 12 Miami got going in the second half to hand the in-state rival a 72-59 loss Jan. 9. Florida State upset then-No. 11 Virginia 69-62 Jan. 17 thanks to a combined 35 points from Bacon and Beasley and enjoyed a four-game win streak from Jan. 26 to Feb. 6 before things came to a screeching halt in the form of five straight losses. The Seminoles, though, enter the first round of the ACC tournament as the No. 11 seed with two straight wins to their

name, including a 77-56 blowout of then-No. 20 Notre Dame.

The Seminoles will continue to rely on Bacon and Beasley as their top scorers but will also look to veterans Xavier Rathan-Mayes— who has not rediscovered his shooting prowess from a dynamic freshman season— and Devon Bookert for contributions.

—Ali Wells

8. PITTSBURGH

Led by junior forward Michael Young, the Panthers have had a fairly average season. They played a weak nonconference schedule and found plenty of success, save for a 13-point loss to then-No. 11 Purdue Dec. 1.

Pittsburgh started off 3-0 in ACC play after a four-point victory on the road against Notre Dame, but that promise faded when head coach Jamie Dixon’s squad struggled to beat the conference’s top talent and dropped six of its next nine games.

Things looked to be turning around beginning Feb. 16, as a double-overtime win against Wake Forest sparked three wins in four games. The last victory in that stretch was a 76-62 demolition of Duke on Senior Day in the Steel City, when the Panthers dominated the boards 39-20. But back-to-back fourpoint losses at Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech to close out the regular season put Pittsburgh squarely on the bubble entering the ACC tournament.

Pittsburgh has the second-best rebounding margin in the conference, but its bigs—Young, Jamel Artis, Sheldon Jeter and Rafael Maia—are also fairly mobile, with Artis capable of stepping out the perimeter, where he knocks down 35.0 percent of his 3-pointers. If they heat up from the perimeter like they did against Duke, the Panthers could be especially dangerous alongside the efficient play of senior guard James Robinson, who is the NCAA career leader in assist-to-turnover ratio among players who dished out at least 400 assists.

—Jack Dolgin

10. GEORGIA TECH After being projected to come in 13th in the ACC in preseason polls, the Yellow Jackets slightly exceeded expectations with a 12th-place finish. Georgia Tech was buoyed all year by senior guard Marcus Georges-Hunt and heads to Washington as arguably the most battletested team in the league, with its 18 ACC games decided by just an average of 5.3 points.

After opening with a series of wins against non-Power Five opponents, the Yellow Jackets were handed a 6952 setback at the hands of then-No. 8 Villanova—just one of the squad’s three losses by more than 10 points. Head coach Brian Gregory’s squad rebounded with a series of wins and narrow losses to then-No. 7 North Carolina and then-No. 24 Pittsburgh before stunning then-No. 4 Virginia 69-64 in Atlanta.

The trend of narrow losses continued against Notre Dame, Syracuse, Louisville and Duke—a game the Blue Devils played without

ailing head coach Mike Krzyzewski— but the Yellow Jackets have picked things up since then. Winners of four of its last five, Georgia Tech heads into the ACC tournament with a considerable amount of momentum as it prepares to take on Clemson, the No. 7 seed in the bracket. The Yellow Jackets were 1-1 against the Tigers this season, losing by 14 on the road before bouncing back with a two-point win at home.

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12. N.C. STATE After losing just three games in its nonconference slate, N.C. State lost seven of its first eight ACC contests.

Given this start, the Wolfpack surprised the conference with a win against then-No. 15 Miami, but also managed to beat winless Boston College by just a single point on Mar. 2. Barber leads the conference with 23.4 points per game, nearly double that of the nextmost dangerous Wolfpack scorer.

The early departure of Trevor Lacey after last season and an injury to West Virginia transfer Terry Henderson has allowed opposing backcourts to key in on Barber, and the Wolfpack have struggled with consistency. Sophomore forward Abdul-Malik Abu nearly doubled his numbers from a year ago, but big man BeeJay Anya has not quite put all the pieces together inside for Gottfried’s squad.

N.C. State needs to be firing on all cylinders in back-to-back games, something they did not figure out how to

do during ACC play as the Wolfpack have not posted two consecutive wins since ending their nonconference campaign in December against UNC-Greensboro and Northeastern. Led by Barber, N.C. State has shown glimpses of greatness in games aside from the Miami win, including playing North Carolina close until halftime and nearly erasing a 16-point deficit in a 77-72 loss against then-No. 16 Louisville.

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“For us to win anything substantial, we have to have [Ingram] and Grayson on the court all the time,” Krzyzewski said after that game.

That task is difficult for the Blue Devils. The two leading scorers cannot get all the rebounds and take all the free throws. Duke has been outrebounded in its last six games, two of them by 19- and 35-board margins.

Krzyzewski has tried using Plumlee and freshman forward Chase Jeter on the floor at the same time. But Jeter’s raw talent still needs time to develop,

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hindering that strategy as a long-term solution this season.

Duke has attempted to compensate by honing in on training, rest and recovery, limiting contact in practice to keep the depleted Blue Devils as fresh as possible for each game. “[We’ve spent] a lot more time in the cold tub, a lot more time in the training room, period,” Jones said last week. “It’s helped us all manage our time better.

Whether that’s not doing a certain habit or going to a restaurant or movies or not staying up late, getting more rest and things like that have made us more mature to where we get on the court and we’re more refreshed. The odds are against us more than others.”

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head at times down the stretch. Four missed free throws by Allen nearly cost the Blue Devils in the closing minutes against Virginia, Duke blew a doubledigit second-half lead at Louisville with Jones sidelined and the Blue Devils were outplayed in all phases in an uninspired loss at Pittsburgh.

“They’re giving me everything,” Krzyzewski said after a Feb. 25 win against Florida State. “But the emotion that we have had to have for these last five games, they’re tired.”

Krzyzewski tried bringing emotion of his own last week. Against Wake Forest, he stripped his coat to pump up the team, and the gesture seemed to work, as Duke won by eight despite trailing in the second frame.

But the postseason is going to be a different animal. If the Blue Devils make a run, the ACC tournament will mean four games in four days. And the NCAA tournament will feature up to three weekends of two games in three days, a quick turnaround that did not bode well for Duke in the regular season.

The Blue Devils had success with eight scholarship players last year. But only six regular guys? That might be too great a task for this team, one that dearly misses Jefferson and whose freshmen took some time to develop.

As a result, the short-handed wins— and even the close losses—Duke has had this year have all been special. It is a team that does not quit, and with everyone asked to do more, each and every player has kicked into full gear.

“It’s a different Duke team than last year, or [Christian] Laettner, or [J.J.] Reddick or Grant Hill. But it’s a damn good Duke team,” Krzyzewski said.

“And it’s a team that fights like hell together.”

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