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• Duke begins May with an 11-5 overall record after falling to No. 4 Syracuse in the ACC Championship game, 15-14

• The Blue Devils are riding a 10-game win streak in the month of May, dating back to the last loss May 26, 2012

 

• Duke and Boston University are meeting for the second time after the Terriers inaugural season in 2014

• Duke defeated BU 16-11 in Boston a year ago, the Terriers' first season of NCAA lacrosse competition

 

65 - Points for the Duke attack trio of Jack Bruckner, Justin Guterding and Case Matheis in the six games in April

35 – Points by the trio of Bruckner, Guterding and Matheis in the five games in March

29-5 – Duke's record in May under head coach John Danowski

.747 – Faceoff win percentage for sophomore Kyle Rowe over the past four games (65-of-87)

46 – Goals for Duke freshman Justin Guterding, ranking 13th in Duke single-season history

57 – Duke rookie record for goals in a season, set by Zack Greer in 2005

5 – ACC Rookies of the Year for Duke after Justin Guterding captured the 2015 honor

73 – Points for Myles Jones this season, the first midfielder in Duke history to have at least 70 in a year and ranking 11th overall at Duke

10.00 – Duke's goals against average in its previous five games, going 4-1

15.50 - The Blue Devils' goals against average in the four games prior in which they went 1-3

39 – Ground balls by senior Brian Dailey in his 10 games this season, 11 more than he had in 20 games in 2014

10 – Game win streak in the month of May for the Blue Devils, dating back to May 26, 2012

 

Duke is starting to fire on all cylinders as the regular season winds down ... The Blue Devils are 11-4 and ranked fifth ... Myles Jones headlines the Duke offense and is tops among all midfielders nationally with 36 goals and 32 assists for 68 points ...  Justin Guterding leads the team with 44 goals and has 59 points overall ... Junior Deemer Class has 32 goals and 16 assists for 48 points to bolster the first midfield line ...  Jack Rowe has handled the majority of faceoff duties, sporting a .538 win percentage (170-of-316) ... Sophomore Kyle Rowe has taken 69 percent of the faceoffs in the past three games, winning 81 percent of them ... Kyle is 74-of-112 at the X for a .661 win percentage ... Sophomore Brian Dunne  leads the close defense with 13 caused turnovers, while Will Haus anchors the defensive midfield also with 12 takeaways ... Haus and Brian Dailey are also key members of Duke's faceoff team, picking up 48 and 38 ground balls, respectively ... Danny Fowler has started the past seven games and sports an overall .509 save percentage and an 11.27 goals against average.

 

Boston University, in its second year as a Division I varsity lacrosse program, is 6-7 heading into its final game of the year ... The Terriers are led on offense by the trio of Ryan Hilburn (38 points), Jack Wilson (35) and Adam Schaal (35) ... Wilson is the top goal scorer with 24, while Hilburgn and Schaal both have 23 apiece ... Sam Talkow has taken all but 46 faceoffs for the Terriers, winning 178-of-269 for a .662 win percentage and 95 ground balls ... Greg Wozniak and Dominick Calisto pace the defensive effort with a team-best 23 and 15 caused turnovers, respectively ... In goal, Christian Carson has started 11 contests and owns a .562 save percentage and an 8.53 goals against average ... BU is allowing 9.77 goals per game as a team and scores 11.0 per game ... Four of the Terriers' losses have come by two or fewer goals.

 

Duke seniors Josh Dionne and Jordan Wolf combined for 14 points on nine goals and five assists to lead the Blue Devils to a 16-11 victory over Boston University at Nickerson Field ... Wolf finished with eight points – 4g, 4a – and Dionne added five goals and an assist ... Kyle Keenan registered his second career hat trick ... The Terriers got off to a fast start, going up 2-0 before the Blue Devils scored four unanswered for a  4-3 lead after one period ... Boston University scored right off the bat in the second quarter, but the Blue Devils defense held the Terriers to just three more goals over the next 29:53 en route to the five-goal win ... Terrier goaltender Christian Carson made 25 saves in the game.

 

Duke and Boston University share four common opponents overall ... The Blue Devils went 4-0 in the six games, while the Terriers went 1-3.

 

Opponent	Duke	BU
Mercer	W, 16-6	W, 18-6
Providence	W, 20-8	L, 4-7
Harvard	W, 21-14	L, 8-9
Loyola	W, 14-8	L, 6-8

 

• Extend Duke's May win streak to 13 games

• Be head coach John Danowski's 359th career win

• Be the program's 520th victory

 

Duke, after having its 21-game home win streak snapped by Notre Dame, rebounded with a home win over No. 6 Virginia ... Duke's 21-game win streak dated spanned from a March 8, 2013 win over Loyola through March 7, 2015 against the Greyhounds and was tied for the longest in program history ... The Blue Devils are 82-11 all-time under Danowski in Durham.

 

Duke's trio of attackmen Jack Bruckner, Justin Guterding and Case Matheis combined for just 35 points in the month of March as Matheis battled early season injuries and the new unit adapted to each other ... In the past six games in the month of April, they have 65 points ... The attacking unit's shooting percentage has improved from .352 to .414 between March and April.

 

Duke is 63-58-1 all-time in the month of May and 29-5 in the month under head coach John Danowski ... The Blue Devils have won 12 straight games in May, dating back to May 26, 2012 ... Duke's last regular season loss in May was an 8-7 setback to Princeton May 5, 1994.

 

Myles Jones has scored at least one point in 33 straight games, dating back to Feb. 23, 2014 ... In the past 33 games the Huntington, N.Y., native has 72 goals, 58 assists for 130 points ... He is one of 14 players nationally and one of two juniors to have scored a point in 30-plus straight contests.

 

Myles Jones has a hat trick in nine of his 16 outings and has at least five points nine times ... He is eighth on the Duke single-season assists list with 34, besting Jim Gonnella's midfield record of 32 set in 1997 ...  Jones is the first midfielder in Duke history to reach 70 points in a season, while his 73 points are 11th in Duke history ... At 4.56 points per game, Jones is the top scoring full-time midfielder in the nation.

 

Kyle Rowe joined his brother Jack at Duke after a stellar rookie campaign at Stony Brook … Rowe won nearly 63 percent of his faceoffs for the Seawolves and ranked fourth nationally with 248 victories at the X … He also picked up 160 ground balls … Rowe, following offseason knee surgery, has picked up steam ... Rowe has taken 76 percent of Duke's faceoffs in the past four games, winning 75 percent of them  ... In the nine games prior he took 55 restarts and won 28 of them (.509) ... He also has 37 ground balls in the four-game span.

 

Opponent	Won-Taken	Pct.
Stony Brook	18-20	0.9
Marquette	14-18	0.777
Notre Dame	14-19	0.737
Syracuse	19-30	0.633
Total	65-87	0.747

 

Duke will discover its NCAA postseason fate along with everyone else in the nation when the 2015 NCAA bracket is unveiled during the selection show Sunday night at 9 p.m., on ESPNU. The Blue Devils likely will host a first round game May 9 or 10 as one of the top eight seeds.

 

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