[autotag]Isaiah Evans[/autotag], a five-star freshman on the Duke men’s basketball team, played the best 11 minutes of his collegiate career thus far on Wednesday night.
Evans subbed in against the Auburn Tigers with 12:40 left to play in the opening half of the midweek battle, and he knocked down four 3-pointers in the next six minutes to drag the Blue Devils back into the game.
Auburn entered the game with an undefeated 7-0 record, and the Tigers opened the game with a 13-2 run. By the time Evans knocked down his fourth triple, the Blue Devils led by two points.
Evans made two more 3-pointers before the break, giving him 18 first-half points on nothing but daggers. It’s hard for any first-year Blue Devil to steal the spotlight from superstar teammate [autotag]Cooper Flagg[/autotag], but the North Carolina native did exactly that on national television, and one of the NBA’s biggest stars certainly noticed.
Memphis Grizzlies forward Ja Morant, a two-time All-Star and former All-NBA Second Team member at just 25 years old, shouted Evans out on X (the social media platform formerly known as Twitter) my posting his name with some exclamation points during the opening run.
Evans is now averaging 9.4 points and shooting 50.0% from 3-point range in five appearances this season.