Senior J.J. Redick scored 34 points, hitting 10-of-16 from the field, 2-of-4 from behind the arch and 12-of-16 from the line. Redick added three assists and two steals in the win over Clemson.
Redick recorded his 12th career 30 point game, including his sixth of 2005-06. Redick's 12 career 30-point games is tied with Dick Groat for the third most in school history while his six in 2005-06 ranks seventh most in a season in Duke history.
Redick has the same number of 30 point games this season (six) as the rest of the ACC combined.
Redick has reached double-figures in scoring in 102 career games, including all 16 of 2005-06, and 18 straight games, the third-longest streak in the ACC. Dating back to his sophomore season, Redick has reached double figures in 55 of his last 57 games. Redick's 102 career double-figure scoring games places him 10th all-time at Duke, just one game back of ninth and Jim Spanarkel's 103 career double-figure scoring games.
Redick has reached 20 points in 53 career games, including five straight and 11 in 16 games in 2005-06. Redick's 53 career 20-point games ranks sixth all-time at Duke, just one game back from Dick Groat's 54 such games.
Redick scored 17 points in the first half, reaching double-figures by halftime for the 15th time in 16 games this season. He is averaging 15.7 points in the first half this season.
Redick's 34 points is his third-highest total this season and ties his fifth-highest output of his career. It is also the fourth
Redick now has 2,227 career points and remains in fourth place on the Duke career chart while on the ACC Chart he moved out of a tie with Georgia Tech's Mark Price (2,193) and past Wake Forest's Randolph Childress (2,208), Georgia Tech's Matt Harpring (2,225) and into 13th place on the all-time chart. Immediately ahead on the ACC Chart is Virginia's Ralph Sampson (2,228) while Mike Gminski is next on the Duke chart and sixth in ACC history with 2,323 points.
Redick's two three-pointers gives him 377 for his career. He is already Duke's career leader and is second in ACC history and moved out of a tie with Akron's Mark Alberts and into sole possession of sixth place in NCAA history. UMKC's Ronnie Smith is fifth in ACC history with 378 career triples while Virginia's Curtis Staples is the ACC and NCAA career leader with 413.
Redick recorded 10 field goals in a game for the eighth time in his career and his .625 field goal percentage is the sixth-highest mark of his career.
Redick recorded 10 or more free throws for the eighth time in his career and his 12 made are the fourth highest total of his career. His 16 free throw attempts is a career high.
Redick's complete game marked his 13th career complete game and his 40 minutes ties the third-highest total in his career and is his second complete game and 40-minute game of 2005-06 (at Indiana, Dec. 4).
Shelden Williams scored 17 points, recorded 11 rebounds, three blocks and a steal. He shot 6-of-12 from the field and 5-of-6 from the line.
Williams recorded his 46th career double-double and eighth of 2005-06. Both those totals are ACC-bests. Williams has six double-doubles in the past seven games. Williams is now tied with Art Heyman for the fourth most double-doubles in Duke history.
Williams scored in double figures for the 82nd time in his career and 15th of 2005-06 in 16 games. Williams has reached double figure point totals in 46 of 49 games dating back to the start of his junior season.
Williams recorded 10 or more rebounds for the 51st game of his career and eighth of 2005-06. Williams' 51 games is the fourth most in Duke history.
Williams now has 1,542 career points and remains in 25th place on the Duke chart. David Henderson is immediately ahead with 1,570 points.
Williams now has 1,029 career rebounds and remains in fifth in Duke history. Mike Lewis sits in fourth with 1,051 career rebounds. On the ACC chart, Williams passed North Carolina's Antawn Jamison (1,027) and into 22nd place. Lewis sits 21st on the ACC chart.
Williams now has 344 career blocks, just one back of the Duke record held by Mike Gminski. Gminski is in fifth place on the ACC career blocks chart.
Freshman Greg Paulus scored 10 points, dished out eight assists, grabbed four rebounds and had two steals against Clemson. Paulus hit all four of his free throws and played 38 minutes. His eight assists marks ties the second-most of the season for Paulus while he reached double-figures in points for the third straight game and fifth time this season. Paulus is now 32-of-36 from the line this season for a .889 percentage.
Senior Sean Dockery scored 10 points off of 4-of-6 shooting and added four steals to his performance. It marked his 14th career game in double figures and seventh in 2005-06. Duke is 14-0 all-time when Dockery records 10 or more points.
Senior Lee Melchionni scored 10 points and added six rebounds against Clemson. Melchionni reached double-figures for the 16th time of his career and fifth time this season.
Duke had five players in double figures for the first time this season.
Duke improved to 16-0 for just the third time in school history. Duke's 1992 National Championship team started the season 17-0 while the 1986 Final Four team won its first 16 games of the season.
Duke remains one of three undefeated teams in the NCAA and at 4-0 in the ACC, Duke is the only remaining undefeated ACC team through the league's first four games.
Duke improves to 97-27 against Clemson all-time and Duke has won 19 straight against the Tigers. Duke's 19 straight over Clemson is the third-longest streak for one ACC school over another in the history of the league. Duke defeated Virginia 22 straight times from 1959-68 while North Carolina defeated Clemson 23 straight from 1953-63. Duke owns three of the top four such streaks in ACC history as it also defeated South Carolina 18 straight from 1958-65.
Coach Mike Krzyzewski improves to 43-9 over Clemson and Duke has won eight straight at Littlejohn Coliseum and holds a 21-16 record there all-time.
Duke improves to 13-9 on Jan. 14 in its history, including 6-3 under Coach K. Krzyzewski-coached teams have won six straight on Jan. 14. Duke improves to 1-1 against Clemson on Jan. 14, losing a 102-96 overtime game in 1976 despite 28 points from Tate Armstrong.
Mike Krzyzewski recorded his 737th career victory and 664th at Duke. His overall wins is 12th all-time while his 664 wins at Duke is the eighth most for a coach at one school.
Duke shot 29-of-36 from the line, including 11-of-14 in the last 4:05 of the game. Duke's 29 free throws is a season high while the 36 attempts ties the season high.
Duke improves to 106-12 since 1997-98 on the road against unranked teams.