Duke Blows Out Syracuse 101-64 with Michigan Looming

A Monday night game being the 3rd game in 6 days, directly after a top 20 win against Clemson, truly felt like it could have been a trap game. Especially with the number 1 team in the nation looming next. It would be quite understandable if Duke saw some slippage. And while the Blue Devils didn’t start off the game supremely sharp, by the end of the first half, Duke had come alive. After sparring with the Orange for the better part of the half, Duke used an 11-0 run to end the half. Jon Scheyer frames these areas of the games as “inflection points.” And the Blue Devils certainly inflected or rather inflicted upon the Orange. A Cayden Boozer 3 sparked the run, followed by 2 Pat Ngongba free throws, 2 Cam Boozer layups, and punctuated by an alley-oop from Cayden Boozer to Isaiah Evans to end the half for the Blue Devils. The run was aided by 3 Syracuse turnovers in the final 1:42.

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