Senior Shelden Williams recorded Duke's third triple-double in school history with 19 points, 11 rebounds and 10 blocks. It marks Duke's first triple-double under Coach K as the others came when Art Heyman had 21 points, 18 rebounds and 10 assists against Virginia on Feb. 28, 1963, and Gene Banks with 13 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists on Jan. 9, 1978.
Williams' 10 blocks ties the school record set by Cherokee Parks against Clemson on March 11, 1994, in the ACC Tournament ... It marks Williams' 26th career game with five or more blocks, including six this season ... Williams now has 341 career blocks, just four off Duke's career record set by Mike Gminski ... on the ACC chart, Williams moved past Elden Campbell from Clemson and Derrick Lewis from Maryland and into sixth place. Gminski is the fifth on the ACC chart with 345 career blocks.
Williams recorded his 45th career double-double, including his seventh of the season and his fifth in the past six games ... Williams also has 50 career games with 10 or more rebounds. Williams remains in fifth place on Duke's rebounding chart and 23rd on the ACC chart with 1,018 career rebounds. North Carolina's Antawn Jamison is 22nd on the ACC chart with 1,027 rebounds while Duke's Mike Lewis sits at 21st on that chart with 1,051 career rebounds.
Williams scored in double figures for the 81st time in his career, including 14 of 15 games this season and 45 of the past 48 games since the start of his junior season.
Senior J.J. Redick scored 27 points, marking his 52nd career game scoring at least 20 points, including his 10th such game in 2005-06. Additionally, it marks his 101st career double-figure scoring game, including all 15 games in 2005-06, 17 straight dating back to last season and 54 of his last 56 games dating back to his sophomore season.
In five games against ranked teams this season, Redick is averaging 28.8 points per game while shooting 48-of-93 from the field, 25-of-53 from behind the arc and 23-of-27 from the line. He also averages 2.8 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 2.2 steals per game, as well.
Redick's 27 points gives him 2,193 career points and he remains in fourth place on the Duke chart. On the ACC chart, Redick moves into a tie for 15th with Georgia Tech's Mark Price. Immediately ahead in 14th is Wake Forest's Randolph Childress.
Redick has scored 228 points in the first half of Duke's 15 contests for an average of 15.2 per opening stanza. He has reached doulbe figures by halftime in 14 of Duke's 15 games.
Additionally, Redick hit four three-pointers against Maryland, giving him 375 career three-pointers and moving him into a tie for sixth on the all-time NCAA list with Mark Alberts from Akron. Immediately ahead is UMKC's Ronnie Smith with 378. Redick is already Duke's career leader and in second place on the ACC chart. Virginia's Curtis Staples is the ACC and NCAA all-time leader with 413.
Redick recorded his first career dunk on a break-away in the second half.
Sean Dockery scored 10 points, had five steals, four rebounds and four assists against Maryland. It marked the third game of the season and fifth of his career with at least five steals. It also marked his 13th career and sixth game this season in double-figures in points.
Freshman Greg Paulus scored in double figures for the second straight game and fourth of the season.
Sophomore DeMarcus Nelson scored six points hitting a pair of three-pointers in the first half and added four steals in just 10 minutes of action.
Duke improves to 100-58 all-time against Maryland, including a 41-18 mark under Coach K. Duke has won 15 of the last 22 in the series and improves to 47-13 agaisnt Maryland at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Duke recorded a season-high 19 steals in the contest, the third-highest total of the Coach K era ... Duke has recorded double figures in steals in four straight games, eight of the past nine games and nine games overall in 2005-06. Under Coach K, Duke recorded 22 steals against Davidson on Nov. 20, 1997, and 21 against Davidson on Dec. 5, 2000.
Duke forced Maryland into 29 turnovers, a season-high for Duke opponents better than the 26 turnovers by both Boston University and Penn. It marked the most turnovers by a Duke opponent since Davidson committed 33 on Dec. 5, 2000. It ties as the most turnovers by an opponent in an ACC game (Clemson, Jan. 29, 2000).
Duke improves to 15-0 for the fourth time in school history, all under Coach K (1986, ?92, 2005, ?06) ... Duke is 15-0 for the second straight season and the only better marks were 17-0 by the 1992 National Championship Team and 16-0 by the 1986 Final Four squad.
Duke improves to 194-31 this decade
Mike Krzyzewski improves to 736-246 overall and 663-187 at Duke ... Krzyzewski moved out of a tie with Indiana's Bobby Knight into ninth place in NCAA history for victories at one school. Krzyzewski is one of just 10 coaches to win 650 games at one school ... Krzyzewski's 736 overall wins ranks 12th all-time, 10 behind Phog Allen's 746 victories.
Duke is now 183-24 all time as the nation's top-ranked team ... Coach K has coached in 178 such games, second most all-time behind John Wooden (228).
Duke improves to 226-233 all-time against ranked teams, including a 7-2 mark against the No. 23 ranked team in the NCAA
Duke has faced the AP No. 23 ranked team two straight games. Duke has twice faced an opponent with the same ranking on back-to-back nights ... On Dec. 10 and Dec. 11, 1965, Duke faced No. 1 UCLA in Durham and then in Charlotte on back-to-back nights (Duke won both those meetings) ... Duke and UCLA played back-to-back games again on Dec. 10 and Dec. 13, 1966 (UCLA won both those meetings in Los Angeles) ... Tonight marked the first time in school history two different teams held the same ranking in back-to-back games.
Now in its 101st season of intercollegiate basketball, Duke holds an all-time record of 1,779-807
Duke is now 684-141 all-time in Cameron Indoor Stadium including a 330-48 ledger at home under Coach Krzyzewski ... Duke has now won 120 of its last 126 games in Cameron Indoor Stadium