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Blue Devils rout Winthrop for opening-round victory

DePaul stands between Duke and trip to regional semis

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There is no place like home. especially in the postseason. Second-seeded Duke took advantage of playing on its home floor, routing 15th seed Winthrop 87-45 Saturday afternoon at Cameron indoor Stadium behind an impressive defensive performance that limited the eagle offense to just 15-of-55 shooting. Duke will advance to play seventh-seeded DePaul—which defeated 10th seed oklahoma 104-100 Saturday afternoon—in the second round Monday night at 6:30 p.m. “We knew we had to win all the hustle plays,” senior guard Tricia liston said. “We had to stay with the little things, the intangibles. Staying on the rebounding. That was the focus that we had. like this was the only game that we had.” liston’s team got off to a hot start, jumping out to an 8-3 lead in the first five minutes of the contest in part thanks to two back-toback offensive rebounds by post-players haley Peters and elizabeth Williams that translated into four second-chance points. The Blue Devils outrebounded Winthrop 25-12 in the first half and 49-23 on the afternoon.

Duke’s new-look defense will be put to the test Monday in its final home game of the season. Second-seeded Duke will take on seventh-seeded DePaul in the second round of the nCAA tournament Monday at 6:30 p.m. No. 7 DePaul at Cameron indoor vs. Stadium. After the Blue Devils trounced No. 2 Duke Winthrop 87-45 Saturday, the Blue Demons Monday, 6:30 p.m. Cameron Indoor Stadium outlasted 10th-seeded oklahoma 104-100 in the highest-scoring regulation game in nCAA tournament history. looking to advance to the Sweet 16 in lincoln, neb., Duke will look to build off its 21-assist performance against Winthrop in its seventh game without a true ball-handler. The Blue Devils (28-6) should have plenty of opportunities to control the game inside against an up-tempo DePaul squad if they can continue sharing the ball. “it’s been remarkable how we’ve really had to concentrate [on passing],” head

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After sprinting past 15th-seeded Winthrop to open the NCAA tournament, Duke has one final home test against DePaul with a Sweet 16 berth on the line.

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Hartmann places fifth at NCAA Championships by Delaney King The Chronicle

One Blue Devil emerged from the NCAA Championships with his name in the record books. Conner Hartmann and Immanuel KerrBrown both entered the national tournament Thursday in Oklahoma City to complete the 2013-14 wrestling campaign. Although both Blue Devils advanced past the first day of competition, Kerr-Brown suffered a loss in his second consolation match to bid farewell to his season. Unseeded in the tournament, Hartmann pulled off two upsets through three days of competition to earn fifth place overall. The 197-pounder also became the second Blue Devil in program history to receive All-American honor recognition. “Fifth place was really revealing for me because I realized that the difference between third and fifth and first is very, very narrow,” Hartmann said. “It’s a small difference, which means that I can hang with the best guys in the country.” The redshirt sophomore eliminated 10th-seeded Jace Bennett of Cornell in a low-scoring battle before cruising to a 6-0 shutout over Oklahoma’s Travis Rutt, seeded seventh overall. “Conner was focused. We knew he was going to have a good tournament,” Duke head coach Glen Lanham said. “He went into the tournament well-prepared, wrestled hard, and got on the podium.” A 5-1 quarterfinal loss to No. 2-seed J’Den Cox, a Missouri freshman, sent Hartmann to the Saturday morning consolation round. What promised to be the second installment of a close match between Hartmann and Vir-

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Redshirt sophomore Conner Hartmann opened his fifth-place run at the NCAA Championships with two victories against ranked opponents. ginia Tech’s Chris Penny during dual competition turned into a win for Hartmann by medical forfeit, giving the Blue Devil fifth place overall for the 197-pound weight class. In addition to a spot on the podium, the Port Orchard, Wash., native earned the All-American title, an honor not only to the wrestler but his coaching staff as well. “It’s a great feeling. It shows that the new coaching staff that we’ve had over the last year or two knows what they’re doing,” Hartmann said. “It was great for me and for them to see that their hard work is paying off and what they’re saying really does work. I think it will speak volumes in the next couple of years.”

The other half of Duke’s duo, Kerr-Brown opened the Blue Devils’ showing at the NCAA Championships with a midday matchup against freshman Joseph LaVallee of Missouri. Kerr-Brown kept competition tight during the first period of his national championship debut. Scoreless after the first period, the redshirt junior suffered a takedown early in the second period to go down 2-0. After suffering another takedown and a near fall with only an escape and a takedown of his own, KerrBrown entered the consolation bracket with a 10-3 loss. The Rome, Ga., native’s next contest held an opportunity for revenge. Drexel’s Aus-

tin Sommer notched a 9-8 win against KerrBrown during the regular season, but the Duke 157-pounder evened the score with a 10-2 decision to join his teammate on the second day of competition. “The first day was amazing,” Hartmann said. “It was really nice to know that I was going to have somebody else with me because Immanuel Kerr-Brown was still in the running at that point, and it’s nice to have a teammate with you.” The second day of competition would be Kerr-Brown’s last, as he fell narrowly 5-2 to No. 13 Dylan Alton of Penn State. The Blue Devil will head into his redshirt senior season after leading this year’s squad with a 26-12 record. “He made one critical mistake against the Penn State kid and it cost him,” Lanham said. “[He] was out of the tournament, and the next day he started working out because he knows the season starts right now, and he can’t sit on it.” With one and two years left, respectively, Kerr-Brown and Hartmann will have a chance to return to the national championships in a year to improve upon this year’s success that began well before Oklahoma City during the regular season of dual competition. The two Blue Devils earned Duke an overall rank of 29th out of 73 competing teams and return to Durham to begin offseason training with the rest of the squad. “They were voted captains prior to their success this season just based upon their leadership,” Lanham said. “They knew they had to be well-prepared. They did that, and that’s why they were at nationals, and that’s why they’re captains, and that’s why they lead our team. I feel like they both have a bright future, and we’re excited about it.”

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Blue Devils rout Syracuse in championship game rematch by Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle

Not even the wet weather could cool down Duke’s red-hot offense Sunday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium. In a rematch of last year’s national championship game, No. 3 Duke trounced No. 6 Syracuse 21-7. After CUSE 7 trailing 2-1 3:25 into DUKE 21 the game, the Blue Devils went on a 10-0 run in just 17:25 to seize control and put the game away early. Like the rain that continued throughout the game, the Blue Devils never relented, putting up a season-high 21 goals and winning the second half 8-3 after taking a 13-4 lead into the locker room. With its effort in the second half, Duke squashed any possible comeback hopes and put the finishing touches on its best 60-minute performance of the season. “I think you’re starting to see the evolution of some individuals, but also of a group of kids who are starting to understand how we play,” head coach John Danowski said. “Whatever you did well you’ve got to put that behind you, and whatever you did poorly you’ve got to put behind you. We had to come out again focused in the third quarter.” The Blue Devils (8-2, 2-1 in the ACC) wasted no time attacking a conservative Syracuse defense, scoring 40 seconds into the game on when senior attack Christian Walsh fed sopho-

more midfielder Deemer Class for the first of his six goals on the afternoon. The Orange (4-3, 0-3) quickly responded to Duke’s early goal with two of their own by taking advantage of a Brendan Fowler holding penalty and an unassisted Nicky Galasso goal, but had no answer for Duke’s quickness and unselfishness. The Blue Devils were able to score with ease against Syracuse’s man and zone defenses, scoring six goals during the rest of the quarter to take a commanding 8-2 lead. Class recorded a hat trick just 12 minutes into the game. “It was a product of great ball movement,” Class said. “In our offense, we would try to draw two and move it, move it, move it—I was just on the receiving end of a lot of it. It was just a product of my teammates moving the ball and great teamwork.” The play of the game gave Duke the lead for good with 8:43 left in the first period when senior attack Josh Dionne stole an errant clear-out attempt by Syracuse goalie Dominic Lamolinara and cashed in for an easy goal. “[That was] a huge boost for the team,” Class said. “A senior like that stepping up and making a huge play gets everyone fired up. We just followed in Josh’s footsteps after that.” After Dionne and senior attack Jordan Wolf showed they were too quick for Syracuse’s defenders, the Orange were forced to sit back in a conservative zone defense—one

that Class and 6-foot-4 sophomore midfielder Myles Jones dissected with their long-range shooting. With Fowler winning more than 75 percent of the faceoffs against a trio of Syracuse specialists, the game turned into Duke exhibiting its zone offense and taking target practice while the Orange offense watched helplessly. The Blue Devils outshot Syracuse 57-27. Class finished with a career-high six goals and four assists and Jones added a career-high five goals and one helper. Walsh facilitated Duke’s scoring outburst—leading the team with six assists and scoring a goal—and Wolf and Dionne still managed to combine for nine goals by finding openings against the zone. “I think the reason their zone was so tight is that we have great attackmen,” Jones said. “They’re great finishers inside, so I think they were more worried about those guys. They tested us [midfielders] to see if we were able to make those shots and we came up big today.” Duke sophomore goalie Luke Aaron was not needed often, finishing with just five saves, but the Duke defense did its part, accounting for several of Syracuse’ 16 turnovers and helping the Blue Devils maintain a 38-17 advantage in ground balls. Duke keyed on Syracuse’s leading scorers—Kevin Rice and Dylan Donahue—holding the pair to just one goal and one assist combined. “The fear is don’t let this game be the peak

of the season,” Danowski said. “[We want to] allow this game to show the possibilities if you practice well, prepare well and play right. We don’t want this game to define us, [or] to be the best game of individuals’ years and the best effort of the team.”

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Sophomore Deemer Class notched a career-high 10 points in Duke’s 21-7 victory against Syracuse.

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DePaul has identified Duke center Elizabeth Williams as one of its priorities for Monday’s second-round NCAA tournament matchup with the Blue Devils.

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coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “The 21 assists was an incredible thing, and we’ve got to build off that concept of hitting the open player and making everyone a passer. The thing [we can still improve] is the passing between our post players. if that interior passing will pick up, then we become a very lethal team.” in addition to setting the tone offensively, the versatility of Duke’s post players will be vital because of DePaul’s proficiency from the outside. The Blue Demons have three guards that score in double figures—Megan rogowski, Brittany hrynko and Chanise Jenkins— that can all heat up from outside. rogowski has made 105 3-pointers on the season and hrynko—the team’s floor general—usually finds the open shooter, handing out 5.6 helpers per contest. Senior forward Jasmine Penny anchors the DePaul attack on the interior, averaging 15.7 points and 5.3 rebounds per game. “obviously, they’re a really talented team offensively,” senior forward haley Peters said. “They have great guards—people who can shoot and attack the basket, [and] their posts are pretty active as well. it’s going to be a challenge and a good opportunity for us to work on contesting shooters, which is something we haven’t done as well as we want to.” Aggressiveness on both ends of the court from Peters and the other Blue Devil post players will likely determine the pace of the game, Duke also knows that its transition defense will need to show improvement to knock off the Blue Demons (28-6). The difference in Duke’s 69-53 loss to notre Dame in the ACC tournament championship game was porous Blue Devil transition

defense. “[The Blue Demons] like to run, [so] i feel very fortunate that we’ve had some games against similar teams,” McCallie said. “That’s where the ACC tournament has proved critical for us. We’ve got to work very hard in transition defense to stop the ball, get the ball under control, and keep them out of the paint.” Although Duke will be making transition defense its top priority, DePaul will be focused on finding any way it can to neutralize the Blue Devils’ size. Duke will likely have multiple players that are 6-foot-3 or taller on the court at all times, and the Blue Demons are well aware of Duke’s new ability to overwhelm teams on the boards and in the paint. in addition to Peters and All-American center elizabeth Williams, freshman reserves oderah Chidom and Kendall McCravey-Cooper have emerged as viable options for Duke inside. The duo combined for 31 points and 14 rebounds Saturday. “We’ve played against size, but we haven’t played against the quality of size we’re going to be playing against tomorrow,” DePaul head coach Doug Bruno said. “elizabeth Williams is one of the best big players in the country. her and haley Peters have a great synergy together, a great chemistry together. The Duke team has had to reinvent itself, and i think they’ve done a good job of getting that done.” The battle between Duke’s interior play and DePaul’s guard play will define the game, but the ability of the Blue Demons to handle their emotions in a hostile environment will also be crucial. The Blue Devils will be hoping to make DePaul feel less comfortable on

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liston extended the run, scoring the team’s next eight points, including two 3-pointers. liston finished with 20 points and six rebounds, draining four shots from beyond the arc. This hot offensive start ignited the crowd at a mostly blue and white Cameron indoor Stadium, which only built the momentum behind the Blue Devils. Duke’s suffocating defense stifled any eagle upset hopes, as the Blue Devils held Winthrop to just six field goals in the first half. The length of Duke’s guards and forwards clearly bothered the eagles’ smaller backcourt, which found itself swarmed by the Blue Devil zone. Winthrop committed 17 turnovers in the contest. When 6-foot-3 center Schaquilla nunn picked up her second foul, Winthrop lost an important presence in the paint that allowed Duke to continue to get easy shots near the rim. This set the stage for a huge run at the end of the half that extended the lead. “That was one of my concerns, Schaquilla being in early foul trouble,” Winthrop head coach Kevin Cook said. “They have not had 6-foot, 4-inch, 6-foot-3 players to play against. it impacted us greatly on the defensive end. She is a presence in there.” Cook led the eagles to their first-ever nCAA appearance this season. Three-time Big South Player of the Year, senior Dequesha McClanahan lead the eagles with 22 points in her final collegiate game, including a 60-percent shooting clip from beyond the arc. Unfortunately for McClanahan and Winthrop, the team had trouble finding other outlets for offensive production in the game, as the rest of the team combined for just 23 points. Although Winthrop cut the Blue Devil lead to just 11 points with less than 10 minutes to play in the first half, Duke embarked on another run, outscoring the eagles 20-5 during the final eight minutes of the half to

walk into the locker room with a 43-17 lead. The second half featured more Duke dominance on the defensive end of the floor and in the paint, where the Blue Devils scored 42 of its points compared to just six for Winthrop. Williams and Peters combined for 21 points and 14 rebounds, and freshman oderah Chidom continued to add quality minutes of the bench, scoring a career-high 17 points on 5-of-6 shooting. But it was the 12 of Duke’s 21 total assists that the team’s post players combined for that had head coach Joanne P. McCallie excited. Peters led the team, tying a career high with six assists in the game. “The best statistic that we have is 21 assists,” McCallie said. “That has to be some kind of world record. i was proud of the team for just passing the basketball.” even forward Kendall McCravey-Cooper, who saw limited minutes during the regular season, had arguably one of her best games of the season, scoring 14 points and grabbing 10 boards for her first double-double of her Duke career. “She let the game come to her,” McCallie said. “She is so intense and is a terrific fighter. But sometimes that intensity can take her to a place where she cannot let the game come to her. So what we saw today was her fabulous intensity, but a little bit of patience and poise in some of her decisions.” After a day of rest tomorrow, the schedule only gets tougher for the Blue Devils, who will face a power-conference team in DePaul Monday. McCallie did not seemed worried, citing the team’s number one strength of schedule as a testament to the strength of her team. even if the opponent is different, the goals have remained the same. “Their challenges are different,” McCalli said. “But the key is the same. if you are that same team passing the ball and playing smart, it is an exciting time for us. We have to keep working, stay focused and build on every game.”

Coach K Court than it did Saturday against oklahoma. “This gym is similar to our gym—it’s a smaller gym,” rogowski said. “We were here last year and played a game, [and]

we played yesterday. i mean i feel pretty comfortable with the gym. The floor is just like our floor, it’s not a raised floor so i think it’s to our advantage. We are pretty comfortable playing here now.”

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Playing his final game as a Blue Devil, senior Tyler Thornton made big hustle plays on the defensive end for Duke.

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With Duke (26-9) trailing 45-40, Tyler Thornton made a series of plays of the type that have defined his career in Durham. He nailed his first 3-point attempt of the afternoon to cut the deficit to two, then came up with a steal on the next Mercer possession. He couldn’t finish in the lane and fell to the ground out of bounds, but scrambled up only to hit the deck again to save the ball from careening out of bounds. Thornton’s hustle play earned Sulaimon two free throws, erasing what had been Mercer’s largest lead of the game. Thornton’s energy created a spark for

the Blue Devils on the offensive end, but the defensive letdowns that have plagued Duke in second halves all season re-emerged once more, the major reason why there will be no more hustle plays in a Duke uniform from the senior. Another triple by Cook gave Duke the lead back at 48-45, but Mercer scored four straight points to reclaim it. Finding himself wide open again from the top of the key, Cook splashed home his fifth 3-pointer of the afternoon, putting Duke ahead 54-51 with 9:05 remaining. Parker finally asserted himself with 5:39 remaining, converting a 3-point play to put Duke ahead 60-58. Thornton then calmly sank three free-throws to give Duke a fivepoint cushion. But that cushion was short-lived, as the Bears—who shot more than 50 percent from the floor on the afternoon—controlled the rest of the game. Coursey led the Bears with 17 points, scoring as many two-point field goals as the entire Duke team, and Mercer got double-figure contributions from Jakob Gollon, Langston Hall and Anthony White, Jr. The Blue Devils allowed a 17-0 run down the stretch in a loss to Wake Forest March 5. This time around, it was 11 straight Mercer points that ended Duke’s season prematurely. “On the defensive end is where we’ve lost all the games,” Hood said of Duke’s plethora of second-half collapses. “People like to say offensive, we’d go in a drought, something like that. Defensively, we come down and score a bucket, and they come back with an answer. It just sucks we didn’t figure it out before this tournament.... I thought I’d be playing after today.”

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Freshman Jabari Parker (top) struggled in what could be his final collegiate game, and sophomore Rasheed Sulaimon (bottom) scored 20 points in a losing effort.