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Duke Basketball: Player grades from exhibition win over Virginia Union

If the Duke basketball players had bothered to show the same willingness to play defense as they did offense in the first half of Tuesday night’s 106-64 exhibition win over Virginia Union, the lead at the break might have matched the final margin of victory.

And since the squad so often played the role of spectator on defense before likely getting called out on it by head coach Mike Krzyzewski after the first 20 minutes, when coming up with individual grades, I automatically deducted five points from each Blue Devil who saw action during the first half.

First, find out the numerical marks for the starters on this page — from best to worst — then click “Next” to see how the reserves fared.