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Syracuse at Duke basketball: How to watch the game, betting lines

Hall of Fame coaches Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim pit their teams against each other for the only time in this pandemic-altered regular season when Duke meets Syracuse at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Monday night.

The Blue Devils (10-8, 8-6 ACC) enter the game on a three-game winning streak, including Saturday’s 66-65 win over Virginia that boosted Duke’s near-dead NCAA tournament chances. The Orange (13-6, 7-5 ACC) have also won three games in a row.

With Syracuse at No. 47 in the NET ratings and Duke at No. 56, this game will be a Quadrant 2 result for the Blue Devils and a Quadrant 1 result for the Orange. Home games against teams rated from 31-75 are Quadrant 2 and road games against teams 1-75 are Quadrant 1.

How to watch Orange vs. Blue Devils basketball

The game tips off at 7 p.m. and is televised on ESPN, which is available on all satellite, cable and streaming TV services. With no live game being shown the network leading into it, the Duke-Syracuse game is not subject to a slide due to a previous game running long. So expect an on-time tip.

Follow along online at the N&O’s live blog here.

Betting odds

Duke opened as a 7-point favorite Sunday and the Monday morning line now showed the Blue Devils as a 5-point favorite, according to Vegas Insider. The over-under total is 149.5 points.

This story was originally published February 22, 2021 at 10:06 AM with the headline "Syracuse at Duke basketball: How to watch the game, betting lines."

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Steve Wiseman
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Steve Wiseman was named Raleigh News & Observer and Durham Herald-Sun sports editor in May 2025. He covered Duke athletics, beginning in 2010, prior to his current assignment. In the Associated Press Sports Editors national contest, he placed in the top 10 in beat writing in 2019, 2021 and 2022, breaking news in 2019, event coverage in 2025 and explanatory writing in 2018. Before coming to Durham in 2010, Steve worked for The State (Columbia, SC), Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, S.C.), The Sun Herald (Biloxi, Miss.), Charlotte Observer and Hickory (NC) Daily Record covering beats including the NFL’s Carolina Panthers and New Orleans Saints, University of South Carolina athletics and the S.C. General Assembly. He’s won numerous state-level press association awards. Steve graduated from Illinois State University in 1989. 
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