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Duke basketball notches fifth straight win with defensive masterpiece against George Mason

The Duke Blue Devils won a battle of elite defenses at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Tuesday night with a 68-47 triumph over George Mason.

The Duke men’s basketball team won its fifth straight game on Tuesday night by following the usual formula, relying upon freshman superstar [autotag]Cooper Flagg[/autotag] and some stifling second-half defense for a 68-47 victory over George Mason.

Duke and George Mason both entered Tuesday’s battle within the top six in effective field goal percentage allowed, and the two teams certainly lived up to the defensive billing in the opening half.

The Blue Devils, who have struggled on offense in the opening minutes for most of the season, knocked down two 3-pointers in the first three minutes for an early 6-0 lead before missing 13 of their next 14 shots from the floor. The home team endured multiple four-minute scoring droughts before the break, only chopping them up with a five-for-seven run near the middle of the period.

However, while the Patriots excel at forcing tough shots from the floor, they struggle to end possessions. George Mason ranked outside the top 260 in offensive rebounding rate allowed, per KenPom’s metrics, and the Blue Devils certainly overpowered them on the glass.

Flagg came down with five second-chance possessions in the first eight minutes, including one sequence when he tipped three offensive boards to himself in a row. Duke returned to the locker room with eight offensive rebounds in the first half, helping the Blue Devils build a 25-16 lead despite going 9/33 (27.3%) from the field and 4/15 (26.7%) from behind the arc.

Flagg spent most of the first half settling for short floaters rather than muscling his way to the basket, and most of them found iron instead of nylon. The first-year forward only made two of his 11 shots in the first 20 minutes, a seven-point opening half, but he quickly course-corrected after the short break.

The 6-foot-9 forward shouldered his way to the rim over and over again in the opening minutes of the second, drawing a foul on one possession and rolling a layup in off the rim on another. Add in a jumper, and Flagg notched six points in the first three minutes after the half.

The run seemed contagious for his teammates with fellow freshman [autotag]Kon Knueppel[/autotag] getting to the glass for a layup and junior [autotag]Tyrese Proctor[/autotag] knocking down his second 3-pointer for a run of four straight makes.

When forward Maliq Brown slammed down a two-handed dunk with 14:36 left on the clock, Duke had opened up a 20-point lead thanks to a 15-4 run to open the latter period.

The remaining time passed slowly, but Isaiah Evans came off the bench for a trio of 3-pointers to raise the team percentage to 33.3% before the end of the night. Flagg finished with 24 points thanks to a decisive second half, his fifth 20-point game of the season, and he added nine rebounds, four assists, and three steals.

George Mason made five straight shots from the floor in the final eight minutes, but the Patriots still only managed to connect on 20 of their 68 (29.4%) looks for the game.

The Blue Devils, now 9-2 for the season, will now hit the road for a Saturday afternoon game against Georgia Tech. Duke already won its first ACC game of the season against Louisville on December 8, a 76-65 comeback away from Durham.

What’s going on with Duke basketball from behind the 3-point line?

After a torrid start from 3-point range, the Blue Devils have made fewer than 33% of their triples in three of their last four games.

The Duke Blue Devils have won their past four games for an 8-2 start to the 2024-25 men’s basketball season, but if any Cameron Crazies have sensed something wrong about [autotag]Cooper Flagg[/autotag] and his teammates on the offensive end, there’s an easy culprit on the stat sheet.

The Blue Devils started the season with at least 96 in each of their first two games, but they’ve only surpassed 76 points twice in the last eight. While four top-25 opponents and the conference opener might be responsible for a large chunk of that regression, a reliable part of the offense has abandoned this Duke team: the 3-point shot.

Through the first six games of the season, Duke knocked down 37.7% of its  3-point shots even with a dismal 4/24 showing against the Kentucky Wildcats. The Blue Devils finished each of the other five games in that sample with at least a 36% clip, including three games north of 40%, and that stretch included a road game at Arizona and a neutral-site game against Kansas.

In the four games since? That percentage has dropped to 31.0% despite a 9/22 night against the Auburn Tigers, and if five-star freshman Isaiah Evans gets removed from the data, it plummets to 25.6%.

Of course, it’s silly to pretend Evans hasn’t been a bright spot. The North Carolina native knocked down six first-half threes against the Tigers to pull Duke back ahead, and he made four more in the second half against Incarnate Word on Tuesday night. He’s averaged 8.7 points in 12.9 minutes per game this season, and he’s made exactly half of his shots from behind the arc despite averaging five attempts per night.

But it’s reasonable to question whether the other sharpshooters on the roster might cost Duke a game in the near future. Flagg was never pitched as a marksman, but it still counts when he shoots, and he’s 1/12 (8.3%) since the Seattle game began. Sophomore Caleb Foster and Purdue transfer Mason Gillis, two 40% shooters in 2023-24, have combined to go 5/19 (26.3%) in that four-game stretch, and freshman scorer Kon Knueppel is 4/14 (28.6%) over the last three.

Perhaps there’s some deeper pyschological or fundemantal reason for the sudden regression, but to the untrained eye, it seems like the Blue Devils have taken the right shots. They’ve been disciplined with their ball movement, players take advantage of off-ball designs and screens, and they look decisive when they finally get a window. And yet the ball won’t find the basket.

It’s never the popular answer, especially this early in the season, but the most likely explanation is that this is a fluky four-game run for a team with exceptional shooting talent. It’s worth monitoring against George Mason next Tuesday, however, and if the issue persists much longer than that, it’ll be hard to keep the alarm bells quiet.

The best Duke basketball photos from Wednesday’s win over No. 2 Auburn

Check out the best photos from Wednesday’s game between the Duke Blue Devils and Auburn Tigers.

The Duke Blue Devils notched their biggest win of the season on Wednesday night with an 84-78 triumph over the undefeated Auburn Tigers at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Superstar freshman [autotag]Cooper Flagg[/autotag] anchored the second half with five buckets en route to a 22-point night, his third 20-point performance against a top-25 team already this year. However, fellow five-star prospect [autotag]Isaiah Evans[/autotag] stole the show with six first-half 3-pointers.

Neither player came through quite like third-year guard [autotag]Tyrese Proctor[/autotag], however. The Australian knocked down a pair of second-half triples, the latter of which came after a loose ball with less than five seconds left on the shot clock, to turn one-possession leads into comfortable margins.

Auburn star Johni Broome entered Wednesday’s game averaging 23.0 points over his last five games, but the Blue Devils held him to just 20 after he made two of his nine shots from the floor before halftime.

Check out the best photos from Wednesday’s wild win in Durham.

Duke basketball rides Isaiah Evans’ breakout game to home victory over No. 2 Auburn

Duke picked up a signature victory over No. 2 Auburn on Wednesday night thanks to a first-half explosion from freshman Isaiah Evans.

Isaiah Evans wanted the ball.

Duke basketball superstar [autotag]Cooper Flagg[/autotag] had the ball in transition against the No. 2 Auburn Tigers on Wednesday night, and despite a two-to-one disadvantage in the paint, the best prospect in the country could surely find a way to score. Who would want to take the ball out of his hands?

Evans would.

The North Carolina native started clapping as soon as he crossed halfcourt, and after a moment, Flagg noticed him finding a pocket of space behind the 3-point line.

Evans fired off the shot instantly, and the Cameron Crazies erupted when it rattled through the hoop for his third 3-pointer in two minutes.

Evans made six of his eight 3-point looks in the first 20 minutes for an 18-point night, powering the Blue Devils to an 84-78 victory over the previously undefeated Tigers.

Just like last week’s loss to No. 1 Kansas, the Blue Devils looked entirely outmatched for the first four minutes. Auburn, fresh off a Maui Invitational victory that included wins over the Iowa State Cyclones, North Carolina Tar Heels, and Memphis Tigers, looked ready to pick up right where it left off in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Miles Kelly, a Georgia Tech transfer who helped the Yellow Jackets upset the Blue Devils last December, scored three of the Tigers’ first five baskets of the game, including back-to-back 3-pointers that opened up a 13-2 lead with 16:20 left in the first.

Duke looked physically outmatched and frustrated early on, missing six of its first seven shots. However, just like the Kansas game, the Blue Devils quickly shook off the offensive cobwebs when they started creating transition possessions. After Auburn opened the game five-for-six from the floor, Duke’s top-ranked defense began to clamp down. The Tigers missed eight of their next nine, and with the ensuing rebounds letting the Blue Devils take advantage of their athleticism, Duke began to stack up points.

The best offense over the first 20 minutes came from two unlikely places within the rotation, a pair of North Carolina natives.

Sophomore guard [autotag]Caleb Foster[/autotag] started each of the first seven games this season, but after he averaged 8.6 points and made 30.8% of his 3-point tries in 22.4 minutes per game, he ceded his spot in the first five to Tulane transfer Sion James. Despite the demotion on paper, however, Foster made three of his five shots for a nine-point opening half, including a knockdown 3-pointer in the last two minutes.

The hero of the opening half, however, was Evans. The only five-star member of the 2024 recruiting class who didn’t play against Duke’s previous three ranked opponents, Evans checked into the game with 12:40 left before the break.

Within 100 seconds of game time, he’d knocked down a 3-pointer, a smooth catch-and-shoot roller off a screen. Three minutes later, a defensive miscommunication left him wide-open for another triple, and he managed to sneak into the corner for another on the very next possession.

Evans seemed to grow stronger with each progressive triple, calling for that fourth 3-pointer from Flagg less than 90 seconds after the third make. His 18-first-half points helped open up a 43-36 lead at the midway point.

Auburn superstar Johni Broome entered Wednesday night off four consecutive 20-point performances, and after a five-point first half, the 6-foot-10 forward began to shake off the cobwebs after the break. The Tigers managed to scheme him away from Duke forward Maliq Brown, who held Broome just two-for-nine to start the game, and Broome started getting to the basket more frequently. He notched 11 points in the first nine minutes of the half, and Auburn closed within four.

Third-year Duke guard [autotag]Tyrese Proctor[/autotag] knocked down the biggest shots of the night, however. The third-year guard got an open 3-point look in the corner with nine-and-a-half minutes on the clock, but instead of firing up a contested shot, he faked out the closing defender and side-stepped for a wide-open triple that put Duke ahead by seven.

Five minutes later, a late-possession turnover from Flagg spelled disaster for the Blue Devils. The ball rolled around near half-court before Proctor managed to bat it away from the Auburn defense, preventing an easy transition bucket.

With less than one second on the shot clock, Proctor lofted up a 30-footer and somehow connected, a five-point swing to keep the Blue Devils in front 73-68.

Flagg, like he did against the Kentucky Wildcats and Arizona Wildcats, made tough basket after tough basket in the second half. He scored 16 points after the break, including a tough and-one midway through the half to slow down a tough Auburn run.

The superstar 17-year-old ended up with 22 points, his third 20-point performance in four ranked games, on top of 11 rebounds, four assists, three steals, and two blocks.

The Blue Devils, now 6-2 for the season with a pair of quad-one wins, start their ACC schedule on Sunday with a road battle against Louisville.

Duke coach Jon Scheyer admired how his team fought back into the game against Kansas

While the Blue Devils didn’t take down No. 1 Kansas on Tuesday night, Jon Scheyer appreciated how his team battled back from a rough start.

The college basketball world saw the Duke Blue Devils come up short against the Kansas Jayhawks on Tuesday night, an effort doomed by a turnover in the final five seconds. Head coach Jon Scheyer saw his team battle back from a nightmare start.

The Blue Devils dropped into a quick 16-3 hole when the Jayhawks made six of their first seven shots, including a trio of 3-pointers, in the opening four minutes. Despite facing a mountain from the opening bell, however, Duke scratched and clawed to hang around before rattling off a 16-4 run of its own to tie the game with 3:34 left until halftime.

“It would have been easy to fold in that kind of game,” Scheyer said. “We just kept fighting and kept fighting… I thought the character and the heart of our team really showed tonight.”

Veterans Maliq Brown and Tyrese Proctor really engineered the first-half comeback. The duo combined for 16 points after making five of their six shots, including three 3-pointers from Proctor. Brown also tallied three steals before the midway point.

“To me, it’s character,” Scheyer said. “It’s either you have a competitive spirit or you don’t…I think it says a lot about our group that we just kept fighting.”

The best Duke basketball photos from Tuesday’s loss to the Kansas Jayhawks

Check out the best photos from Tuesday’s game between the Duke Blue Devils and Kansas Jayhawks.

The Duke Blue Devils clawed back from an early hole against the No. 1 Kansas Jayhawks on Tuesday night, but freshman superstar [autotag]Cooper Flagg[/autotag] and his teammates couldn’t close the deal on a trajectory-changing upset.

Kansas scored 16 of the game’s first 19 points after it made six of its first seven shots from the floor, burying three 3-pointers in the first 4:11 of game time.

Despite Flagg only scoring two points in the opening half thanks to some constant double-teams, the Blue Devils put together a 16-4 run late in the opening half to tie the game. [autotag]Tyrese Proctor[/autotag] made five of his first six triples, and veteran forward [autotag]Maliq Brown[/autotag] constantly swatted the ball away in a game he ended with four steals.

However, five-star freshman [autotag]Kon Knueppel[/autotag] couldn’t find a gap in the Kansas defense in the final five seconds for a crucial turnover, letting the Jayhawks build a three-point lead. When Knueppel’s final gasp ducked out of the rim, his eighth miss on eight 3-point attempts, the Blue Devils walked away with a second tally in the loss column.

Here are the best photos from Tuesday’s game.

Duke basketball loses heartbreaker to Kansas Jayhawks out in Las Vegas

The Blue Devils clawed back from a terrible start against No. 1 Kansas on Tuesday, but a late turnover once again doomed Duke to a loss.

[autotag]Kon Knueppel[/autotag] jumped in the air and saw nothing but Kansas defenders.

With 14 seconds left on the board in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, Duke sat within a point of the top-ranked team in the country. With one play between the Blue Devils and a monumental resume-booster, the offense fed one of its star freshmen the ball at the top of the key in hopes he could create a ninth assist.

[autotag]Cooper Flagg[/autotag] and the other Blue Devils couldn’t shake free, however, forcing Knueppel to drive toward the basket. He spun into the paint and rose up for a floater, but two Jayhawks defenders converged and forced him to toss a prayer toward teammates Khaman Maluach and Sion James instead.

The ball got lost in the crowd, letting the Jayhawks retake control and ice their 75-72 victory in Sin City.

The first four minutes went about as poorly as Duke basketball fans could have possibly imagined. Kansas made six of its first seven attempts from the floor, including a trio of 3-pointers for a 16-3 lead before all the fans at T-Mobile Arena even found their seats.

The Jayhawks produced two more five-point runs in the first 13 minutes thanks to the efforts of veteran guard Dajuan Harris Jr. While star teammate Hunter Dickinson commands most of the national attention and accolades, the 6-foot-2 Missouri native scored or assisted on 10 of his team’s first 21 points en route to a 14-point, nine-assist performance.

With Duke facing down the barrel of a 28-16 deficit with seven minutes left in the opening half, the offense finally came alive. The Blue Devils struggled to create consistent separation against the Jayhawks in the half-court, but Kansas finally started to miss the mark on offense to give up some transition possessions. Duke took advantage of its athleticism in a 16-4 run to tie the game.

Kansas consistently double-teamed Flagg, who only took two shots from the floor before halftime, so veterans Tyrese Proctor and Maliq Brown led the way in the comeback effort.

Brown, usually a quiet scorer, buried his first 3-pointer of the year during the scoring streak as he added seven points in three minutes. The versatile Syracuse transfer tacked on three steals, a rebound, and an assist before the break, but his defensive impact surpassed the box score. He constantly swatted the ball away from Kansas, often letting the Jayhawks retain possession as the ball bounced harmlessly out of bounds but disrupting the offensive rhythm nonetheless.

Tyrese Proctor, the only Blue Devil who spent each of the last two seasons in Durham with Jon Scheyer, changed the complexion of the game in the closing seconds of the period. With Kansas nursing a 41-36 lead with no shot clock, Jayhawks guard Rylan Griffin forced up an ill-advised 3-pointer to give Duke one last chance with the ball.

Proctor got the ball from freshman center Khaman Maluach and faked toward the basket to create some space before retreating well behind the arc. He let a 3-pointer fly, and it found its mark just as the backboard went red to cut within two points.

The third-year Duke guard put forth his best effort yet on a big stage. Proctor made five of his first six attempts from distance to end the game with a team-leading 15 points, picking up the extra volume from Flagg’s defensive attention.

With 10:26 left on the clock, one tangle spun the entire game on its head. Brown and Dickinson fell to the court after challenging each other for a rebound, and despite Brown undercutting the Jayhawks star for a foul, officials spent a long time reviewing the footage. As it turns out, Dickinson lowered his foot to kick Brown’s head into the court, and the review deemed his outburst worthy of an ejection with Kansas clinging to a 57-55 lead.

Flagg took advantage with a one-handed dunk over replacement big man Flory Bidunga, but the Jayhawks didn’t roll over despite Dickinson’s absence. The Blue Devils took a two-point lead with 5:53 on the clock, but Griffin scored six straight points for Kansas to retake a 71-67 advantage.

Another Flagg bucket pulled Duke back within one, but that fateful Knueppel turnover gave the Jayhawks an easy path to the final lead. He got a chance at redemption with the final play design, a deep 3-point look to force overtime, but his shot bounced off the glass and lipped out of the rim for an eighth straight miss from distance.

The Blue Devils, now 4-2 for the year, return to Cameron Indoor Stadium later this week for a Friday game against the Seattle Redhawks.

Duke basketball dominates Wofford in best first-half performance under Jon Scheyer

The Duke Blue Devils bounced back with a Saturday win over Wofford behind a scoring avalanche during the opening half.

The Duke Blue Devils knew they wouldn’t erase any lingering questions from Tuesday’s loss to the Kentucky Wildcats with one game, but they sure tried with an 86-35 home victory over the Wofford Terriers.

After missing their first four shots of the afternoon, the Blue Devils caught fire and wouldn’t cool down until the midway point. Days after Duke made just four of their 24 3-point attempts as a team in Atlanta, Tyrese Proctor and Kon Knueppel made back-to-back triples to take the lead in the third minute.

Proctor, the only player who spent each of the past two seasons with head coach Jon Scheyer, roared out of the gates again. After he put together 10 points with two threes in the first 20 minutes against the Wildcats, he tallied nine of the Blue Devils’ first 14 points with an assist on top. He ended the opening frame with 12 points, nearly equaling the Terriers by himself, with two dimes.

After 17-year-old phenom [autotag]Cooper Flagg[/autotag] was the only Duke player to make a shot from the floor over the final 10 minutes against Kentucky, Scheyer and the Blue Devils took a different approach on Saturday. From the 15:01 to 5:28 marks in the first half, Duke outscored Wofford 27-2 thanks to eight different players getting to the basket.

Khaman Maluach, the freshman 7-footer, scored seven points in four minutes emphasized by an alley-oop dunk. Fellow first-year center Patrick Ngongba, making his collegiate debut, notched his first career points and won several rebounding battles. Isaiah Evans, yet another member of the 2024 recruiting class, tallied eight points and an assist in his first four minutes on the court thanks to a pair of 3-pointers.

Eleven different players took the court in the first half on Saturday. Nine of them scored at least two points, and eight of them recorded an assist. Despite Flagg only notching five points on five shots, the Blue Devils created a 51-14 advantage after 20 minutes for the largest halftime lead in Scheyer’s three years as head coach.

The Cameron Crazies could pick their favorite stat to detail Saturday’s dominance. Duke finished with 43 rebounds to Wofford’s 29. The Blue Devils recovered with a 16/38 (42.1%) performance from 3-point range. However blowouts can be quantified, Scheyer and his players checked the box. Flagg finished with just eight points, but he stuffed the stat sheet elsewhere with nine rebounds, six assists, two blocks, and three steals for his contribution.

The confidence from Saturday’s win will prove necessary in the coming 10 days. The Blue Devils get nearly a full week off before Saturday’s trip to Arizona for a battle with the Wildcats, and Duke plays top-ranked Kansas in Las Vegas just four days later.

Outside of Cooper Flagg, Duke scored two points in the last 10 minutes against Kentucky

The Duke Blue Devils scored 14 points over the final 10:50 against Kentucky on Tuesday, and 12 of them came from one player.

Duke basketball fans likely left State Farm Arena or turned off their televisions in shock on Tuesday night when the Blue Devils lost to the Kentucky Wildcats.

Duke led their fellow blue blood by nine points at halftime, but after scoring 61 points in the first 30 minutes, the Blue Devils only managed 11 points over the closing stretch.

Superstar freshman [autotag]Cooper Flagg[/autotag] drew lots of the visible blame for his two turnovers in the final 15 seconds, turning a tie game into a 77-72 loss, but the 6-foot-9 forward actually kept the game within striking distance by himself during the last 11 minutes.

With 10:51 left in the second half, Purdue transfer Mason Gillis picked up a loose ball and made a short floater to give the 58-53 advantage. It was the last shot made from the floor by someone other than Flagg.

Even ignoring Kon Knueppel’s last-second heave at the buzzer, the Blue Devils missed their final seven shots and two of their last four free throws. Knueppel and Tyrese Proctor, after teaming up for 22 points in the first half, combined for just four in the second.

Flagg, who ended the night with 26 points, put 12 of the team’s last 14 points on the board.

Late Cooper Flagg turnovers cost Duke basketball in second-half collapse against Kentucky

Cooper Flagg tried his best to keep Duke alive against Kentucky, but two costly mistakes in the final seconds cemented the 77-72 loss.

[autotag]Cooper Flagg[/autotag] made several heroic plays for the Duke Blue Devils during his 26-point outing against the Kentucky Wildcats on Tuesday night, but two late turnovers handed the SEC program a 77-72 victory in a monster second-half comeback.

The Blue Devils led by nine points at the break, but it was actually the Wildcats who came out of the gates on fire. Kentucky ripped off an 18-9 run in the first six minutes thanks to 3-pointers from veteran transfers Andrew Carr, Kerr Kriisa, and Ansley Almonor on three consecutive possessions.

Both teams entered Tuesday’s game shooting better than 40% from 3-point range, but the Wildcats made five of their first seven looks from distance while Duke managed to make just one of their first five.

Despite the shooting imbalance, however, the Blue Devils kept pace, and they eventually found other ways to score as their lead began to bloom.

Flagg, [autotag]Tyrese Proctor[/autotag], and [autotag]Kon Knueppel[/autotag] handed command of the offense back and forth in the opening 20 minutes. Proctor, the returning junior, notched seven of the team’s first 11 points in a variety of ways. He challenged the Kentucky interior with a drive before lofting a high floater off the top of the glass, he found the net on a contested mid-range jumper, and he opened up space for himself on the perimeter with a pump fake before draining a triple. All three of those bucks came in a two-minute stretch.

Flagg stepped up next, and between the 15:10 and 7:32 marks in the first half, he scored 10 of Duke’s 17 points thanks to a quartet of free throws.

Knueppel, who actually missed his first three shots from the floor, grabbed the baton from his fellow freshman phenom and took over from there. Kentucky’s Otega Oweh tried and failed to steal a pass on the perimeter, leaving Knueppel open for a 3-point look, and the Wisconsin native punished the Wildcats in kind to make it a 33-26 game.

Knueppel notched seven of Duke’s last 16 points in the opening frame, and that trio combined for 34 of Duke’s 46 in the first half.

The Blue Devils maintained some distance for the first part of the second half, leading by at least four points for the first 10 minutes, but the 3-point shooting remained a problem. Despite the clutch makes from Proctor and Knueppel, Duke made four of their 22 3-point attempts for the game.

The Wildcats took advantage. Sophomore forward Brandon Garrison, a former Oklahoma State Cowboy, scored six straight points before Kriisa buried a deep three to make it a 65-64 ballgame with 5:28 left on the clock.

Flagg tried multiple times to save the day in the final stretch. He hurtled out of nowhere to deflect a Garrison layup that would have given Kentucky the outright lead, and he earned two trips to the free-throw line on the ensuring offensive possession to keep the lead at three points. When Kentucky took the lead with 2:40 to play, the 17-year-old netted a contested jumper and drew another whistle to tip the score back in Duke’s favor, and he found a way to make a bouncing floater in the final minute that tied the game at 72 points apiece.

It all came unraveled in the final 15 seconds, however. With the score still tied and the ball in Duke’s hands, Flagg drifted into traffic to let Oweh swat it away from behind him. Now down two points with the clock ticking down, Flagg took the ball up the court and lost control near the baseline, putting his hand down out of bounds to give the ball back again.

Flagg was the only Blue Devil to score over the final 6:30, and he was the only Blue Devil to make a shot from the floor over the final 10:50. Proctor and Knueppel only tacked on four points after the break, and the Wildcats won the second half by 14 points.

The Blue Devils play at home against Wofford on Saturday, their last game before a road trip that includes Arizona and Kansas.