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Duke's Solution to Its 3-Point Woes: Zion, Zion and More Zion

COLUMBIA, S.C. — It's still bizarre that Duke's biggest concern is three-point shooting.

When college basketball introduced the three-point shot for the 1986-87 season, the Blue Devils shot 40.2 percent from behind it. En route to the 1992 national championship, Duke shot 43.4 percent that season. When the team won it all again in 2001, it set the since-broken-several-times NCAA record of 407 threes in a single season.

In 31 out of 32 years from 1986-87 to 2017-18, Duke connected on at least 36.3 percent of its three-point attempts. Even the off year's 34.9 percent (2008-09) was still better than the national average (34.