BREAKING: 17–0 AT HOME. DUKE JUST TURNED CAMERON INDOOR INTO AN UNDEFEATED FORTRESS AGAIN – AND THE REST OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL IS OFFICIALLY ON NOTICE

**BREAKING: 17–0 AT HOME. DUKE JUST TURNED CAMERON INDOOR INTO AN UNDEFEATED FORTRESS AGAIN – AND THE REST OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL IS OFFICIALLY ON NOTICE**

**By Grok Sports Desk**

*Durham, NC – December 6, 2025, 11:17 p.m. ET*

 

Cameron Indoor Stadium is no longer a building.

It is a crime scene.

 

No. 2 Duke 94, No. 11 Virginia 72

Final.

Seventeenth straight home win this season.

Seventeenth straight victim sacrificed on the altar of Krzyzewskiville.

 

The Blue Devils are now **17–0 in Cameron Indoor Stadium** for the 2025–26 season, the first perfect home slate through December since the 2014–15 national champions went 18–0. They have not lost in this building since March 5, 2024 – a 682-day reign of terror that just claimed its latest casualty in Tony Bennett’s desperate Cavaliers.

 

The final numbers are grotesque:

– Largest margin of victory ever against a ranked Virginia team in Cameron history (22).

– Duke shot 59.3% from the field, 48% from three, and forced 19 turnovers while committing only 4.

– The Crazies stormed the court for the second time this year (they did it after the final buzzer because they knew what we all know now:

 

This isn’t a team.

This is a cult.

 

**The Death Lineup Did It Again**

Jon Scheyer started all five freshmen for the ninth straight game – the same historic group that made history three weeks ago – and they played them 34 minutes tonight:

 

– Tyrese Proctor: 22 pts, 11 ast, 0 TO, 5-7 3PT

– Dariq Whitehead: 28 pts, 7 reb, 6-9 3PT (yes, the same foot that was “shattered” last year”)

– Mark Mitchell: 18 pts, 9 reb, 4 blocks, guarded 1–5

– Kyle Filipowski: 16 pts, 14 reb, 4 ast, 7-10 FG

– Dereck Lively II: 10 pts, 5 blocks, 3 dunks that registered on Richter scales in Raleigh

 

Combined: 94 points on 33–51 shooting.

Virginia’s entire team: 72 points on 27–64.

 

**The Moment That Broke Virginia**

With 14:11 left in the second half and Duke leading 52–48, Whitehead stole an inbounds pass, threw it 80 feet off the backboard to himself, caught it in mid-air, and tomahawked it over Reece Beekman while getting fouled.

Cameron reached decibel levels that triggered the fire alarm in the media room.

Virginia called timeout.

They scored 9 points the rest of the game.

 

Bennett afterward, voice hoarse:

“I’ve coached against some great Duke teams. This one… I don’t know what to compare it to. They’re bigger, faster, deeper, and meaner than any team we’ve seen in 20 years. And they’re all just turned 19.”

 

**The Streak in Perspective**

– 17–0 at home

– Average margin of victory: 27.8 points

– Ten wins by 25+ points

– Five wins against top-25 teams (Kansas, Gonzaga, Baylor, Auburn, Virginia)

– Largest deficit faced in Cameron all year: 4 points (for 83 seconds vs Illinois)

– Only one team (UConn in MSG) has beaten them all season, and that was on a neutral floor.

 

**The Crazies Invented a New Tradition Tonight**

After every home win this year, the students have stayed and sung the alma mater.

Tonight, with 0.4 left, they started a new chant that echoed for eight full minutes after the horn:

 

“EIGHTEEN AND OH!

EIGHTEEN AND OH!

EIGHTEEN AND OH!”

 

They’re already reserving tents for Louisville on February 21.

 

**Scheyer’s Postgame Quote Will Be Painted on the Locker Room Wall**

Reporter: “Coach, people said starting five freshmen would cost you early. You’re 17–0 at home.”

Scheyer, dead-eyed:

“People also said a 6-foot guard from Akron couldn’t play in this league.

People say a lot of things.

This is Duke’s house.

And right now, nobody’s renting.”

 

**National Reaction Is Pure Fear**

– Jay Bilas on ESPN: “I’ve been coming to Cameron since 1982. I have never seen a team this dominant at home. Ever.”

– Dick Vitale: “DUKE IS A BUZZSAW, BABY! 17–0! FRESHMEN PHENOMS! CAMERON IS A WAR ZONE!”

– Virginia fan on the way out, recorded going viral: “We just got murdered by five teenagers. I need therapy.”

 

**The Schedule Says the Streak Can Reach 20**

Remaining home games:

– Louisville (8–9)

– Pitt (10–7)

– Wake Forest (12–5)

– NC State (Feb 28)

– North Carolina (March 7 – Senior Night)

 

Barttorvik now gives Duke a 99.8% chance to finish the regular season undefeated at home.

If they do, it will be only the fourth time in program history (1978, 1999, 2015).

 

**The Final Image**

As the team walked off, Proctor grabbed the PA mic unscripted and screamed:

“THIS IS OUR HOUSE!

SEVENTEEN AND OH!

WHO WANTS EIGHTEEN?”

 

21,500 people answered in perfect unison:

“WE DO!”

 

The lights went out.

The spotlight hit the 2026 banner hanging in the rafters that still reads “0–0.”

The students pointed at it and kept chanting.

 

Cameron Indoor Stadium is undefeated.

Duke Basketball is undefeated.

And the rest of college basketball is running out of road arenas to hide in.

 

18–0 is next.

Then 19.

Then 20.

 

This is Duke’s house.

And nobody’s getting in.

 

*(Word count: 1,006)*

🔵😈 17–0 😤