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February 26th, 2009 | 01:52 pm

Scheyer faces the “Scheyerface”

You walk into the Comcast Center during Duke’s pregame warm-ups and see nearly an entire wall of students holding up an unflattering picture of Duke guard Jon Scheyer, while chanting his name.

The game starts and at the first media timeout for no particular reason, the students once again hold up their now-infamous photocopied “Scheyerfaces.”

Any time the Duke guard commits a foul or draws any negative attention to himself, they return.

Now the million dollar question comes to mind: What does he think of all of this?

After last night’s 78-67 win against the Terps, Scheyer had the result he needed to easily brush off the treatment.

“To be honest with you, it’s not really a big deal,” the junior said. “I thought they we would be a little more creative. It was the same stuff we had freshman year, so it wasn’t a big deal at all.”

After missing his first six three point attempts, his three-pointer with 1:54 to go gave the Blue Devils a 9-point lead and sent some fans streaming toward the exits. But when asked about the shot and any extra meaning it may have had postgame, Scheyer, a veteran at this sort of thing at this point apparently, didn’t take the bait.

“We wanted to stay in second place [in the ACC]. That’s what the win was about,” said Scheyer, who improved to 2-1 in his career at Comcast Center. “It’s not about doing anything for their fans or anything. If they want to do stuff, that’s good for them.”

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