A national television audience tuned into the Duke-Notre Dame Big Monday contest expecting a shoot-out.
Instead they got a lid-on-the-basket contest in which both teams struggled to reach 100 combined points.
But Duke had 57 of those, Notre Dame 43, as the Irish endured an offensive nightmare. An offense built on the 3-point shot went splat as Notre Dame didn’t make a single triple in the first half and ended the game hitting 3 of 18 from beyond the arc.
Duke was even worse, 3 for 19. But the Blue Devils have a more potent inside game and utilized that to seize control in the middle of the first half and never relinquish it.