Duke Handed Clemson Its First Loss On The Road In Atlantic Coast Conference Play In 2025-2026 Season Saturday As Cameron Boozer, Cayden Boozer, Isaiah Evans Led The Way Offensively In 67-54 Win
Coming into their game on the road at Duke on Saturday Clemson had a record of 6-0 on the road away from Little John Coliseum in 2025-2026 season haven won at Syracuse on Wednesday December 31, 2025 haven won at Pittsburgh on Saturday January 3, 2026 73-68 haven won 76-61 on Saturday January 10, 2026 at Notre Dame haven won at Georgia Tech 77-63 on Saturday January 24, 2026 haven on the West Coast at Stanford 66-64 on Wednesday February 4, 2026 before winning at California on Saturday February 7, 2026 77-55.
According to https://clemsontigers.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule/season/2025/
On Saturday February 14, 2026 in Durham Duke handed Clemson their first loss on the road in ACC play in 2025-2026 season as Cameron Boozer , Cayden Boozer, Isiah Evans led the way offensively in Duke’s 67-54 win.
As Cameron Boozer scored 18 points Cameron Boozer who is a freshman who is a forward was 7-14 on field goals , 2-4 on 3 pointers , 2-4 on free throws to go along 8 rebounds, 4 assists , 18 points. Cayden Boozer who like his twin brother Cameron Boozer is a freshman though his twin brother Cameron Boozer Cayden Boozer is a guard. Cayden Boozer was 5-8 on field goals , 0-2 on 3 pointers , 2-3 on free throws to go along with 2 rebounds , 3 assists , 12 points.
As a team Duke shot 23-54 for 43 % were 10-29 on 3 pointers for 34 % were 11-15 on free throws for 73 %
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While Cameron Boozer, Cayden Boozer Isaiah Evans led the way offensively defensively as a team Duke held Clemson to 20-57 for 35 % on field goals 6-24 for 25 % on 3 pointers.
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Following Duke handing Clemson their first loss on the road in Atlantic Coast Conference play in 2025 -2026 season as Cameron Boozer, Cayden Boozer scored 18, 12, 17 points Cameron Boozer who is a freshman who is a forward was 7-14 on field goals , 2-4 on 3 pointers , 2-4 on free throws to go along 8 rebounds, 4 assists , 18 points shared his thoughts by saying We needed a game like this,”An elite defensive performance, a lot of effort. They’re a great team, second in our league, so we saw this as a championship game coming in and played with that kind of energy. It was a great team win overall.”
Following Duke handing Clemson their first loss on the road in Atlantic Coast Conference play in 2025 -2026 season as Cameron Boozer, Cayden Boozer scored 18, 12, 17 points Clemson Head Coach Brad Brownell shared his thoughts by saying We just could not score enough to put any game pressure on them,”
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Clemson Head Coach Brad Brownell wasn’t the only Head Coach to share his thoughts as Duke Head Coach Jon Scheyer did as well by saying I thought our defense was top-notch today,”“I thought we made it very difficult on them.Our defense made them take some tough shots, and we just had to keep going. That was exactly the kind of game I thought it would be.”
I thought their physicality knocked us back with some softer finishes and a couple of wasted possessions, a couple of turnovers,”
But our defense was right there. They scored 26 points.”We have to be an inside/outside team,”But they make it hard on you, make it hard to get in the paint and get the shots you want. In the second half, we did a better job of just settling in and playing to our strengths. “There was much better balance. We settled a little too much in the first half.”
According to Chip Alexander News & Observer article https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/duke/article314631238.html
Duke is now going to prepare to host Syracuse on Monday night in Durham who they’re matching up with once during the 2025-2026 regular season !
As Duke, Syracuse are matching up once during 2025-2026 regular season Maliq Brown is facing, opposing his former team.
Maliq Brown played his freshman, sophomore seasons at Syracuse appearing in 61 games with 25 starts.
Recorded two-year totals of 470 points (7.7 ppg), 363 rebounds (6.0 rpg), 97 steals (1.6 spg), 84 assists (1.4 apg) and 44 blocked shots (0.7 bpg), while shooting 69.8% from the field (201-of-288).
As a sophomore in 2023-24, appeared in all 32 games, averaging 29.6 minutes per contest and starting the final 18 outings.
Averaged 9.5 points, 7.2 rebounds, 2.2 steals and 0.9 blocks per game in 2023-24, while shooting 69.8% from the field and boasting the nation's third-highest effective field goal percentage (71.3%), according to KenPom.com.
Topped the ACC with 71 steals and ranked 11th in rebounding, 14th in blocked shots and ninth in offensive rebounding (2.3 per game) in 2023-24.
Selected to the 2023-24 ACC All-Defensive Team, earning the third-most votes.
Recorded three straight double-doubles to end his sophomore season, including 11 points and 12 boards against NC State (March 13) in the 2024 ACC Tournament.
On Feb. 7, 2024, versus Louisville, amassed 11 points on 4-for-4 shooting from the field, nine rebounds, five assists, six blocks and five steals to achieve the first 5x5 performance while shooting 100% by any player on the NCAA Division I level (men's or women's), NBA or WNBA in the last 25 years, according to OptaStats.
As a freshman in 2022-23, played 29 games with seven starts, averaging 5.7 points and 4.6 rebounds per contest.
According to https://goduke.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/maliq-brown/23103
Syracuse comes into the only regular season match up with Duke with record of 15-11 overall while 6-7 in the Atlantic Coast Conference are eleventh in the Atlantic Coast Conference standings because Syracuse has won two straight Atlantic Coast Conference games including their game on Saturday February 14, 2026 where they knocked -off SMU by score of 79-78 as Nate Kingz who is a senior who is a guard made driving layup with seconds remaining in the game in Syracuse New York
Following Nate Kingz making driving layup Syracuse knocking off SMU 79-78 Syracuse Adrian Autry shared his thoughts on Nate Kingz game winner by saying I went with Nate Kingz. He’s really playing well at a high level right now,”I was very confident that we would get a shot off if we could get him the ball getting downhill. I knew we would get a shot off and particularly he would get to the paint. And he delivered. Executed the play just the way we drew it up.”
According to James Szuba SB Nation article https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nate-kingz-hits-game-winning-143000541.html
Tip-off is set for 7:00pm from Cameron Indoor Stadium!
The game is going to be televised on ESPN!
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who is commentating the game is to be determined!