Blue Devils Smash Florida State 100-65 for 6th Straight Win; Isaiah Evans Scores 19

Florida State always presents a unique challenge, always a long wiry team and always a physical game – add in a horrible officiating crew, and you get a game that seemed to take 4 hours and had zero flow. Duke, already down Maliq Brown and Tyrese Proctor, had to play minus freshman Cooper Flagg for the last 11 minutes of the first half after the 6’7 forward took a finger to the eye. Duke didn’t seem to miss too much of a beat, immediately going on a 13-3 run when Flagg had to exit the game. The Blue Devils won the half 47-30 on the strength of balanced scoring with 3 players amassing 9 points (Isaiah Evans, Kon Knueppel and Mason Gillis). The Blue Devils did miss their 2 missing defensive stalwarts Proctor and Brown, allowing a bad 3-point shooting Florida State team to shoot 40% from beyond the arc in the half. The Blue Devils still held the Seminoles to 37.5% shooting overall in the half while grabbing 12 offensive rebounds that led to 9 second chance points. The Blue Devils also scored 10 points off of Florida State’s 6 turnovers, while Duke had zero turnovers in the half.

…