No. 15 Women's Basketball Defeats George Mason, 95-56

Box Score

Georgia Schweitzer leads Blue Devils with 22 points, Peppi Browne scores 1,000th career point

Georgia Schweitzer scored 15 first-half points en route to 22 total points in leading No. 15/11 Duke to a 95-56 victory against George Mason Tuesday at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The victory improves Duke to 11-1 on the season while George Mason drops to 4-6 overall.

Duke is off to its fourth-best start in school history with an 11-1 record.

Schweitzer helped build a 39-22 Blue Devil first half lead as she nailed three key three-pointers. She hit back-to-back three-pointers in a 30-second span to put Duke up 18-9 then canned her third three-pointer with 8:55 to go in the first half as the Blue Devils took a commanding 28-13 lead.

Duke led by as many as 34 points midway through the first half and extended its lead to 39 with the final score. Peppi Browne became the 12th player in Duke women's basketball history to go over 1,000 career points with a second-half basket. Browne finished the evening with 14 points on 6-8 shooting and eight rebounds. Duke guard Sheana Mosch scored 13 points, senior Missy West added 12 points and forward Rochelle Parent scored seven points and grabbed nine rebounds.

Browne on notching 1,000 points for her career, I guess it seems like some lofty goal that is far away and now it is here. It's kinda amazing. But other than that I had no idea. None what's so ever.

Duke shot 54.7 percent (35-64) from the field and hit eight of 17 three-pointers. The Blue Devils outrebounded George Masson 41-28 and forced 20 Patriot turnovers. George Mason shot only 36.8 percent (21-57) from the floor.

I think this was probably the best that we have done as running our fast break, said Duke Head Coach Gail Goestenkors. I thought we did a good job getting out on the break. Also, I thought we did a pretty good job maintaining our focus even though we had a large lead at halftime. I was a little worried we might lose our intensity and focus. If anything we played with more intensity in the second half.

George Mason was led by Jen Surlas who score a season-high 23 points on nine of 17 shooting. She hit 3-8 three-pointers. Trish Halpin and Jill Regan each added 10 points apiece.

Duke will host Georgetown on Thursday in Cameron Indoor Stadium at 7:00 PM.