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Notes: Duke 84, Bucknell 50
1/2/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
- Senior J.J. Redick scored 22 points, marking his 50th career game scoring at least 20 points, including his eighth such game in 2005-06. Additionally, it marks his 99th career double-figure scoring game, including all 13 games in 2005-06 and 15 straight dating back to last season. The 99 career double figure scoring games ties Redick with Jason Williams for 10th place on the all-time Duke chart. Jim Spanarkel is ninth on that list with 103 games with at least 10 points. Additionally, Redick has scored in double figures in 52 of his last 54 games dating back to his sophomore season and Redick's streak of 15 straight is the third-longest active streak in the ACC.
- Redick has averaged 28.3 points per game in his last seven games while shooting 55-of-108 (.509) from the field, 28-of-65 (.431) from the three-point line and 31-of-35 (.886) from the line.
- Redick's 22 points gives him 2,134 career points and he remains in sixth place on the Duke chart. On the ACC chart, Redick moved past Georgia Tech's Dennis Scott (2,115), Wake Forest's Tim Duncan (2,117) and Florida State's Bob Sura (2,130) and into 21st place on the list. Immediately ahead on both charts is Duke's Mark Alarie (1983-86) with 2,136 points.
- Redick has scored 199 points in the first half of Duke's 13 contests for an average of 15.3 per opening stanza.
- Additionally, Redick hit a pair of three-pointers against Bucknell, giving him 366 career three-pointers and moving him into a tie for ninth on the all-time NCAA list with Pat Bradley from Arkansas. Immediately ahead are Brett Bilzzard from UNC Wilmington and Kyle Korver from Creighton in a tie for seventh with 371 career three-pointers. 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.
- Senior Shelden Williams scored 23 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, marking his fourth straight double-double and ACC-leading sixth of the season. It also marked his ACC-leading 44th career double-double and 49th career game with 10 or more rebounds. The game marked his 79th career game with at least 10 points and 21st career game with 20 or more points. Williams has reached double figures 12 times this season and it marked his eighth 20-point performance of 2005-06. Since the start of his junior season, Williams has reached double figures in scoring in 43 of 46 games.
- With his eighth rebound at the 18:18 mark of the second half, Williams became the sixth Duke player and 27th ACC player to reach 1,000 career rebounds. He ended the game with 1,003 career rebounds, which is tied for fifth with Danny Ferry on Duke's career chart and tied for 24th on the ACC career chart. Immediately ahead on Duke's chart is Mike Lewis, who had 1,051 rebounds from 1966-68 while North Carolina's Mitch Kupchak resides in 23rd place on the ACC chart with 1,006 career boards.
- Williams recorded two blocks in the game, giving him 330 career blocks as he stays in second place on the Duke chart and eighth on the ACC chart. Clemson's Elden Campbell is immediately ahead on the ACC chart with 334 career blocks while Mike Gminski holds the Duke record with 345 career blocks.
- Williams and Redick each scored 20 points in the same game for the 10th time in their career and Duke is now 9-1 in those games.
- Sean Dockery scored 10 points, grabbed a career-high eight rebounds, dished out five assists and had four steals. It marks the 12th time in his career he's reached double figures in points, including the fifth time in the last seven games for Duke. Since his 19-point performance against Virginia Tech in which he hit a 45-foot shot to win the game at the buzzer, Dockery has averaged 11.3 points per game while shooting 25-of-49 (.592) from the field and 15-of-18 (.833) from the free throw line. He has also averaged 5.0 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 3.2 steals per game in those seven games.
- Josh McRoberts scored 14 points and grabbed a season and career-high tying 10 rebounds as he recorded his first career double double and reached double figures in points for the fifth time this season, including his third straight. In the last four games, McRoberts has scored 49 points, 12.3 per game, and shot 21-of-30 (.700) from the field. McRoberts added a season and career-high tying three assists and three steals to his performance.
- Freshman Greg Paulus dished out seven assists against just three turnovers in the contest. In the last five games, Paulus has 38 assists and just 12 turnovers, for a 3.2 assist-to-turnover ratio while averaging 7.6 assists. On the season, Paulus is averaging 5.3 assists per game, tops in the ACC.
- Senior Lee Melchionni recorded a new season high and career-high tying three steals against Bucknell. He also scored five points and grabbed three rebounds.
- Duke improves to 3-0 all-time against Bucknell with previous meetings coming in 1960 and ?84. Duke improves to 48-17 against teams that currently make up the Patriot League and Duke has won 26 straight vs. those teams. Under Coach K, Duke is 12-0 against the Patriot League. For Bucknell, the game marked the program's first appearance against the nation's top-ranked team in its 111-year history.
- Duke recorded 14 steals in the contest, the third-highest total of the season behind 16 against Penn and 15 in the season opener against Boston University. Duke has recorded at least 10 steals in seven games overall, including six of the last seven contests.
- Duke held Bucknell to just 17-of-55 (.309) from the field, well under its season average of .506 (275-of-544 headed into the game). Bucknell's 50 points was its season-low and 18.5 under its season average of 68.5 heading into the game. Duke's 84 points was also the most that a Bucknell team has given up this season, nearly 28 more than its season average of 58.6.
- Duke improves to 13-0 for the sixth time in school history and fifth under Coach K (1986, ?89, ?92, 2005, ?06). Duke also won its first 13 games in 1935-36 under coach Eddie Cameron. Duke has started at least 13-0 for the second straight season and third time in the past five seasons. Duke's 1992 National Championship team started 17-0 while the 1986 Final Four team started 16-0 and the 2005 ACC Championship team started 15-0. Along with this season's squad and the 1936 team, Duke also won the first 13 games in its 1989 Final Four season.
- Duke improves to 192-31 this decade with 16 more victories than any other school (Illinois, 176)
- Mike Krzyzewski improves to 734-246 overall and 661-187 at Duke ... Krzyzewski is in ninth place in NCAA history for victories at one school and is just one win away from Bobby Knight, who had 662 wins at Indiana. Krzyzewski is one of just nine coaches to win 650 games at one school ... Krzyzewski's 734 overall wins ranks 12th all-time
- Duke is now 138-8 as the top-ranked team against unranked opponents and now 63-0 in such games at home
- Now in its 101st season of intercollegiate basketball, Duke holds an all-time record of 1,777-807
- Duke is now 683-141 all-time in Cameron Indoor Stadium including a 329-48 ledger at home under Coach Krzyzewski ... Duke has now won 119 of its last 125 games in Cameron Indoor Stadium
- Duke has now won 202 of its last 216 games versus unranked opponents ... Since 1997-98, Duke is 98-2 against unranked opponents at home ... Duke has now won 94 of its last 96 games against unranked non-conference teams in Cameron Indoor Stadium ... The Blue Devils have won 170 of its last 173 games versus non-league teams at home
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