Jon Scheyer raves about Duke's homecourt advantage at Cameron Indoor

Duke simply has not been good away from home this year. The Blue Devils are 6-8 outside of Cameron Indoor and have only won three road games in ACC play. However, they’re still viewed as a lock for the NCAA Tournament because of their flawless 14-0 record at home. Those crazies have helped maintain an unblemished home slate this season, which head coach Jon Scheyer says is one of the big strengths of the program.

“Well our fans are the best in the country, hands down,” said Scheyer after the team’s latest home win over lowly Louisville. While Duke likely didn’t need a raucous home crowd to pull them over the finish line in that particular contest, the fans still packed the house all the same as the Blue Devils washed the Cardinals. A few fans even went to pretty bizarre lengths to taunt Louisville players, with one kid holding up a poster-sized print-out of a conversation with a Cardinal player on Tinder. Definitely a weird move, but a testament to Duke fans’ die-hard commitment to creating a hostile environment.

At the end of the Louisville game, with Duke leading significantly, Scheyer said his favorite chant broke out.

“You know, for me, my favorite chant is when they chant ‘Our house!’ You know, that’s always been my favorite one. It means, you know, it means we’re winning or about to win. And I just have a lot of pride, you know.”

He then went on to share his first impression of the stadium when he first visited as a recruit:

“I’ll never forget the first time I ever came here as a recruit. That’s what I fell in love with. I fell in love with, you know, Cameron. Chris Collins, I think it was him recruiting. It was it was Cameron and Coach K and — that’s, for me, just what I’ll never forget. And so anytime you step out here again, you hope you have that record all the time. But just the way you want to represent it, just have a tremendous amount of pride coming out here and I know our players do as well.”

Jon Scheyer’s team certainly reflects that pride, judging by just how much better they play in front of their home crowd compared to on the road.