The No. 2 Duke Blue Devils are on their longest winning streak in nearly two decades after collecting their 16th consecutive win, an 83-54 triumph at Syracuse.

Now, though, third-year Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer and his squad are missing a different transfer forward in graduate Mason Gillis. The 6-foot-6, 225-pound reserve out of Purdue did not make the trip to Syracuse for the Blue Devils' showdown against the Orange (10-12, 4-7 ACC) at 7 p.m. Wednesday (ESPN2).

There's little doubt that Cooper Flagg and the Blue Devils are bound to prevail as massive favorites in Syracuse tonight, but history suggests they'll fail to cover this 17.5-point spread.