The 31 points Tre Jones scored last week against a credible, guard-laden Georgia State squad was a career high for the sophomore playmaker. That total is also the high for a Duke player so far this season.
No big deal after only a few games, you might say. Well, yes and no.
Over the preceding decade Blue Devils scored at least 30 points on 45 different occasions. By average that’s about 4.5 times per season or about once a month November through March. In that sense the feat seems uncommon but not strikingly so.
Further coloring our sense of the frequency of such scoring efforts, over the past two seasons three Duke players – R.