Duke Blue Devils

The Blue Devils were underdogs once in 2025-26, against Michigan at +150, and won. Across 34 games they went 32-2 and covered the spread 20 times.

Favored 33 times in 34

Duke went 32-2. Only Miami (OH) won a bigger share of its games, and Arizona matched it. The one game in which the market had the Blue Devils behind was Michigan at a neutral site on 21 February: 68-63 Duke, at +150.

What the price left over

Five games carried no moneyline at all. One unit on Duke in the other 29 returned 3.69 units, 2.19 of it from 28 priced games as favorites. Two defeats cost a full unit each: Texas Tech 82-81 on 20 December, Duke at -470, and at North Carolina 71-68 on 7 February, Duke at -270.

The spread: better on the road

They covered 20 of 34, 58.8%. On the road it was 8 of 11, 72.7%: eleven Division I teams covered more often away and two matched it. At home, 8 of 15. December was the soft month, 4-1 straight up and 1-4 against the number. January was the opposite: 8-0, 6-2 on the spread and 1.58 moneyline units, the most of any month.

Points allowed, and the total

Duke gave up 63.15 points a game and scored 82.29, 48th in Division I. Only Houston and Northern Iowa allowed fewer. Their games went under 22 times and over 12; 23 teams went under more often.

ACC opponents

Louisville and Clemson lost twice each and Duke covered all four. Virginia lost 77-51 and then 74-70 in the ACC tournament final. North Carolina split the two and Duke covered neither; after that loss in February the Blue Devils won their last 11, the ACC tournament included. The NCAA tournament ended in the Elite Eight, 73-72 to UConn.

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