Duke Beats North Carolina With Defense
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Duke did what it does best in another win over North Carolina, bogging down the Tar Heels' speedy transition game with its vaunted pressure defense.
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Deon Thompson and Ty Lawson each scored 16 points for No. 1 North Carolina, which scored 25 straight points in the first half of a 93-62 victory over North Carolina State on Saturday.
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Duke had little trouble staying unbeaten while opening Atlantic Coast Conference tournament play. Things figure to get a little tougher the rest of the way.
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DURHAM, North Carolina (Sports Network) - Alvin Pearman ran for 223 yards and a touchdown on 38 carries and Wali Lundy added two touchdown runs to lead 14th-ranked Virginia to a 37-16 win over Duke in the Atlantic Coast Conference at Wallace Wade Stadium.
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The Atlantic Coast Conference's highest-scoring team had its way against the conference's best defense. LaToya Pringle had 18 points and 11 rebounds, and third-ranked North Carolina shot 51.6 percent from the field in a convincing 93-76 victory over No. 11 Duke last night in Durham, N.C., that broke the Tar Heels' two-game losing streak to their Tobacco Road rivals.
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Kyle Singler scored 24 points and No. 2 Duke shook off some early cold shooting Saturday to beat Boston College 90-80 and extend its winning streak to 11.
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Duke snapped the longest losing streak in the country at 22 games, beating Northwestern 20-14 Saturday night.
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Florida State's players celebrated their game-sealing defensive stop by cutting loose, whooping it up in front of those famously rowdy Cameron Crazies. After 15 straight losses on Duke's fabled home floor, the Seminoles finally had a reason to party.
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Greg Paulus scored 19 points and DeMarcus Nelson added 14 points and seven rebounds to lead No. 18 Duke to a 67-50 victory over St. John's on Sunday. The victory was Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski's 775th, breaking a tie with Dean Smith for the most wins in 32 seasons.
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Another classic duel between Duke and Maryland ended with an increasingly familiar result. Travis Garrison had 17 points and 11 rebounds, and the Terrapins wore down No. 7 Duke in overtime for a 99-92 victory last night in College Park, Md.
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Deon Thompson and Ty Lawson each scored 16 points for No. 1 North Carolina, which used a 25-0 first-half run to cruise to a 92-63 victory against North Carolina State on Saturday in Chapel Hill.
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Jeff Teague scored 26 points and host Wake Forest shocked No. 2 Duke, 86-73, last night, ending the Blue Devils' 12-game winning streak and giving first-year coach Dino Gaudio his first big victory as the heir of the late Skip Prosser's program.
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DeMarcus Nelson scored 23 points and No. 6 Duke turned in a sharp offensive performance after an exam break to beat Albany 111-70 on Monday night.
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Ashley Key scores 21 points, including the game-winning jumper with 1:19 left as N.C. State hands Duke its first loss of the year in the women's ACC tournament semifinals, 70-65.
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Travis Garrison's 17 points and 11 rebounds help Maryland outlast No. 7 Duke, 99-92, in overtime Saturday.
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Shelden Williams and the short-handed Duke Blue Devils came up big in the second half against struggling North Carolina State. Dominating inside, the 6-foot-9, 250-pound Williams scored 18 of his 22 points in the final 20 minutes in No. 5 Duke's 86-74 victory Thursday night.
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North Carolina sputtered in its ACC opener yesterday afternoon, but used its defense and the creativity of Raymond Felton to beat Virginia Tech 85-51 and extend its winning streak to eight games.