Duke Lost To Virginia Tech In The Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Championship In Brooklyn Saturday 67-82

Duke lost to Virginia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament Championship in Brooklyn Saturday 67-82.

Why?

Duke shot 49 percent from the field, closed numerous deficits throughout the second half, Though, Virginia Tech's hot shooting was too much to overcome as Duke lost 82-67 to Virginia Tech in the ACC Championship game

In the game Hunter Cattoor of Virginia Tech knocked down down seven three-pointers on nine attempts. Though, Duke cut the Virginia Tech’s lead to 67-60 with 6:30 left, but Cattoor answered with a deep step-back three to make it a double-digit contest once again. That proved to be too tall a hill to climb for Duke, which never got it closer than eight the rest of the way.

“according to an article on goduke.com”

On the night Hunter Cattoor of Virginia Tech was 11-16 on field goals , 7-9 from 3 point range while he collected 4 rebounds , 1 assists and scored 31 points on the way to Virginia Tech winning the 2022 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament in Brooklyn.

After the game Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski who coached his final Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament game had this to say about Duke’s loss to Virginia Tech to David Shumate who is the voice of the Duke Blue Devils!

“Virginia Tech is a well-oiled machine and they just hit us with an onslaught, to his credit Cattoor hit everything. Our kids fought but obviously they were the better team.”

“according to David Shumate’s social media account on Twitter”

Duke now awaits to see where they start their journey in the NCAA Tournament when the brackets are unveiled tonight at 6:00pm on CBS.