Welcome to Cameron Indoor Stadium, where three national championship banners hang from the rafters, where the Cameron Crazies do whatever it takes to unnerve opponents, where legendary coach Mike Krzyzewski roams the sideline and where the Duke Blue Devils almost never lose a game to a team not in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The young Duquesne Dukes will get an eyeful when they play Duke at 3 p.m. today in a nationally televised game (ESPN).

"I'm sure in some degree our guys will be in awe," Duquesne coach Ron Everhart said of his 4-0 Dukes. "I just hope the guys understand that once the game starts it's just like any other game."

Well, not quite.

Duke is 6-0 and ranked No. 5 by The Associated Press and No. 7 by ESPN/USA Today. The Blue Devils have won an NCAA-best 63 consecutive games at Cameron against non-conference opponents since an 83-82 loss to St. John's in 2000 and 193 of the past 196 non-conference games there.

Duquesne will be making its first appearance on national television since a 71-49 loss at UAB Feb. 18, 1995.

"Playing Duke is a win-win for us," Everhart said. "It will show the guys where you have to go to get to the top in college basketball. They'll experience how hard the Duke kids guard you, how hard they go after the ball, how hard they play every possession.

"They'll teach our guys to huddle after every dead ball and to communicate. I'm curious [how our kids will react]. I'm not sure. There are a lot of things I don't know about this team yet."

The Dukes are coming off a 79-69 victory Tuesday at South Carolina Upstate in which 6-foot-1 junior walk-on Jason Duty scored a career-high 17 points -- all in the first half -- and made 4 of 5 from beyond the arc.

"It was very gratifying for him and very gratifying for the coaches for him to do that," Everhart said. "We see him make those shots every day in the gym. He has to pull the trigger and throw caution to the wind in the game. We know he's capable of doing this. Hopefully, he can build on that."

Damian Saunders, a 6-7 sophomore, had his first career double-double with 20 points and 12 rebounds against South Carolina Upstate.

"Damian has taken his game to another level," Everhart said of Saunders, who was on the Atlantic 10 all-rookie team last season. "He's starting to really challenge himself."

Duke will challenge Duquesne to pick up the pace with full-court defensive pressure and a quick trigger on their shots from beyond the arc.

"They create tempo and make you play the way they want to play," Everhart said. "Fortunately, that's the way we want to play."