Duke started the game against Oral Roberts like maybe they had read some of the people who predicted an upset and weren’t going to allow it.
The Blue Devils jumped out to a 15-0 lead and shut Oral Roberts out for nearly the first eight minutes. The rest of the first half was no different. Despite an off game by Kyle Filipowski, who apparently was so nervous that he threw up during the game, according to the TV crew, Duke had no trouble with the Golden Eagles and took a 40-23 lead to the half.
The second half was not much different although ORU did cut the lead to 54-40 on an Isaac McBride three pointer with 8:50 left to play.