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DURHAM, N.C. -- The Blue Devils and Cavaliers both pulled off impressive victories last week. So which team has more momentum now?Duke and Virginia meet Saturday in a deceptively important game that could put the loser into a substantial hole in the Coastal Division standings.Virginia (1-3, 0-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) has struggled in Bronco Mendenhalls first season, but is coming off a 49-35 win over Central Michigan as a slight home underdog to a Mid-American Conference school.We certainly have not arrived, Mendenhall said.Duke (2-2, 0-1) pulled off what counts as a stunner : The Blue Devils were 20-point underdogs at Notre Dame but rallied for a last-minute 38-35 victory.And now that theyre back to being the favorites -- Duke is favored by 3+ points -- they cant afford complacency.I think there is some truth when people say at times, success is harder to handle than adversity, coach David Cutcliffe said.Some things to know about the Virginia-Duke game:EDWARDS HURT: Dukes victory came at a pretty big cost: Kick returner and safety DeVon Edwards college career ended when he tore ligaments in his left knee on a kickoff. Edwards, a redshirt senior who returned six kickoffs for touchdowns during his career, will be replaced in that role by RBs Shaun Wilson -- who brought a kickoff back 96 yards for a key touchdown against Notre Dame -- and Joseph Ajeigbe. Alonzo Saxton II figures to fill his spot in the secondary.DUNCANT: Duke will be without leading rusher Jela Duncan, whos out with a leg injury. Wilson will replace him in the starting lineup with Ajeigbe backing him up. Duncan ranks eighth in the ACC in rushing at 78.5 yards per game.INJURED CAVALIERS: Virginias secondary took a hit, too, with cornerback Tim Harris having season-ending shoulder surgery and Juan Thornhill suffering an undisclosed injury during the Central Michigan game. Thornhill, though, is listed as probable at one cornerback spot this week but the other is a question mark after sophomore Myles Robinson is ruled out with a lower extremity injury.WELCOME BACKVirginia QB Kurt Benkert will finally take a snap in the state of North Carolina. Benkert was supposed to be East Carolinas starter last season but suffered a season-ending knee injury in August and transferred to Virginia after coach Ruffin McNeill was fired. Benkert set the school record with 421 yards passing in the win over Central Michigan. McNeill, meanwhile, also is at UVa as an assistant head coach and defensive line coach.THE SERIESThe Cavaliers have been the one team that Duke has dominated since Cutcliffes arrival in 2008. The Blue Devils have won six of eight in that span, but Virginia won 42-34 last year.GETTING PRESSUREDuke has 17 sacks in four games, with DT A.J. Wolf recording a team-best four. The Blue Devils had 17 sacks in all of 2015. 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Kiriasis and brakeman Franziska Fritz finished two runs in one minute 55.41 seconds -- a mere 0.01 seconds ahead of Meyers and Lolo Jones, who likely bolstered her Olympic hopes by helping give USA-1 a huge push in the second heat. Former St. Louis Blues captain David Backes said he got goosebumps thinking about joining a team that already includes centers like Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci.These guys get it, the free agent forward said Friday after signing with the Boston Bruins in the first 30 minutes of NHL free agency. They know what its going to take to win. Thats what sold me on it. ... If you have prominent players that are putting team first, the rest of the guys really have no choice.A two-time U.S. Olympian, Backes agreed to a five-year, $30 million deal with the Bruins and said he hoped to help the Original Six club return to the playoffs for the first time in three seasons. Listing off some of the players already on the roster, Backes said it was more of a retooling than a rebuilding.Some guys would have looked at it like, `Youve already got Bergeron and Krejci, where will I play? David said, `Boy, I get to play with Bergeron and Krejci, Bruins general manager Don Sweeney said. These guys are going to be the leading core to get us where we want to go. The younger guys are going to have to get on board.Backes, 32, is the first major addition this offseason for a team that won the 2011 Stanley Cup and returned to the finals two years later. The team re-signed defenseman Torey Krug and bought out the contract of defenseman Dennis Seidenberg on Thursday. Free agents Loui Eriksson and Lee Stempniak agreed to deals with the Canucks and Carolina, respectively.I always thought Vancouver was a great city to play in and a great organization, Eriksson said.Also signing with Boston on the first day of free agency were defensemen Tommmy Cross and John-Michael Liles, goalie Anton Khudobin, and forwards Riley Nash, Tyler Randell and Tim Schaller.ddddddddddddheyre trying to get pieces back that will get them over the hump, Backes said. They barely missed the playoffs last year, and if they had (made it) I dont think anyone would have wanted to play them.Backes had 21 goals and 24 assists last season for the Blues. In a 10-year NHL career -- all with St. Louis -- he has 206 goals and 254 assists in 727 regular-season games.Backes, whos from Minneapolis, said it was difficult for his family to leave St. Louis, the team that selected him in the second round of the 2003 draft.It was tough in that its all Ive known, he said in a conference call with reporters. It happens a lot in this business, it hasnt happened to us. But change is good.Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said talks with his captain broke down over the length of the deal.I had no problem bringing David Backes back, and I wish we could have, he said. I wasnt comfortable with the term. It was problematic for me, personally, to (sign) out that far with players. Theres analytical data (that) shows where players play at their peak, and we wanted to try and stay within a window. We were ready to stretch that window but only to a certain level.But Backes said hes got a lot left.Im 32, not 52, he said. I think theres plenty of legs and energy left in me. I expect to still be at the top of my game.---AP Hockey Writer Stephen Whyno contributed to this story. ' ' '