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VIRGINIA TECH from page 9 that’s really what we needed to start off.” On offense, Duke rarely needed the full shot clock early on, scoring 16 of its first 24 points off turnovers, often on fast break layups. In addition to forcing turnovers, the Blue Devil defense forced Hokie first-year head coach Dennis Wolff to call three timeouts in the opening 10 minutes while trying to find an answer on offense. Duke relied on overwhelming Virginia Tech with its size in a half-court defensive look rather than playing its signature full-court press. Williams made a statement on defense as well, asserting her presence with two early blocks and adding two more rejections and seven rebounds in the game. Sophomore Shay Selby added energy off the bench, having an impact that went beyond her four rebounds and two steals. “I credit Shay Selby with coming off the bench and lifting the defense with her ball pressure,” McCallie said. “She defended [junior guard Ariel Wilson] beautifully and caused some turnovers.” Junior Allison Vernerey and senior Kathleen Scheer, who grabbed seven boards each, also impressed McCallie with their rebounding, a facet of Duke’s game that McCallie has worked to improve all season. The bench played an important role in Sunday’s game, as McCallie had at least two reserves on the floor for most of the final thirty minutes. The mixed lineup held onto the comfortable lead the starters had built, never allowing Virginia Tech to get within 13 of the Blue Devils, and even stretching their advantage to 27 late in the second half. The Blue Devils cooled off offensively as the game progressed, taking a season-low 50 shots, coupled with 18 turnovers. They more than made up for it, though, with what McCallie called “a truly incredible defensive effort.”
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The squad came into the game looking to hold the Hokies to 40 points, but lowered that goal to 34 at halftime. Sophomore guard Monet Tellier scored at the five-minute mark to give Virginia Tech its 33rd and 34th points, but the Hokies did not score again. The Duke victory came against a depleted Hokie squad—Wolff had only six scholarship players at his disposal for Sunday’s contest due to injuries. Duke will play its third game in six days Wednesday as it travels to Atlanta to take on Georgia Tech.
FLORIDA STATE from page 9 The Seminoles remained close, however, as the Blue Devils turned the ball over ten times themselves in the period. In the second half, Florida State made a charge to bring the game within one at the 18-minute mark. Duke never surrendered the lead, however, as the team began to take better care of the ball, lasting until the 2:10 mark without a turnover. Fueled by scoring from Liston, Gray, and Williams, the Blue Devils pushed their lead to double digits in the final 10 minutes. With just 2:48 remaining, Duke had its largest lead at 73-59. After nearly 18 minutes of turnover-free basketball, however, the Blue Devils let the Seminoles back into the game by giving the ball away five times the rest of the game, including three turnovers from Gray. Florida State did not have time to get back into the game, but Duke knows that it cannot continue its careless ways. “We did not take care of the ball in the last few minutes and in a crucial game, that’ll hurt us,” Gray said.
bowing Tanner Smith in the face with 5:58 remaining, Clemson cut the Duke lead to eight from the charity stripe. Plumlee quickly atoned for his error at Clemson dominated the glass on both sides of the court early, and the lacka- the other end of the court, though, keepdaisical Blue Devil effort prompted ing the subsequent possession alive twice Krzyzewski to take out his entire start- on the offensive glass. His teammates did ing lineup just over two minutes into not produce points off of either of his offensive boards, but the third time was the game. While the backups energized Duke the charm for the Blue Devils. Another defensively, the offense stagnated, as offensive rebound by Seth Curry led to a Miles Plumlee layup was the Blue a wide-open 3-pointer for Dawkins—who Devils’ only basket in a span of nearly shot 5-for-9 from beyond the arc in the five minutes. As a result, Duke found game—that put Duke up 11. Outreboundthemselves down eight “We needed a wakeup call. ed 22-18 in the first half, the points at the second media We needed a jolt.... For the Blue Devils rethe adtimeout. last 30 minutes we worked gained vantage on the “We needed a wakeup call, harder out there than they glass in the game’s final pewe needed a did and it showed on the riod and allowed jolt,” Dawkonly 12 points in ins said. “We scoreboard.” came out a the paint. Mason — Andre Dawkins Plumlee finished little slow out of the gates with 12 points, while Miles so that’s what Coach [Krzyzewski] did, and we re- Plumlee pulled down 14 rebounds. “It was just five guys with the mentalsponded well. For the last 30 minutes we worked harder out there than ity that they needed to rebound,” Kelly they did and it showed on the score- said. “If all five guys go to the boards, we have a good chance to get rebounds and board.” The starters’ return prompted argu- we did that.” But the night belonged to Dawkins, who ably Duke’s best stretch of the game, as Quinn Cook scored five of Duke’s perhaps has put together his best two-game next seven points to spur a 23-9 run. stretch of the year following a 10-point efThe Blue Devils maintained that lead fort against Virginia. The junior’s next challenge will be to and took a four-point cushion into the maintain that performance through the locker room. Although Dawkins scored nearly a rest of the ACC season. “The last two games Andre has been terthird of Duke’s points, it was the Blue Devil frontcourt that gave him the scor- rific,” Krzyzeski said. “He’s capable of doing opportunities. After Miles Plumlee ing that. It’s tough to do that all the time, was charged with a technical foul for el- but we needed it tonight.”
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