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Duke University
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Georgetown
Paulus And Scheyer Combine For 22 Second-Half Points In 61-52 Win Over Georgetown
12/2/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -Greg Paulus scored 13 points and Jon Scheyer had nine - all 22 in the second half - and No. 11 Duke played some impressive defense over the final 11 1/2 minutes in a 61-52 victory over No. 18 Georgetown on Saturday night.
The Blue Devils (7-1) extended their nonconference home winning streak to 46 games, second in the country to Oklahoma's 49, but they didn't take the lead for good until there was 4:55 to play.
Georgetown (4-3) shot 57.7 percent in the first half in taking a 34-27 lead and the Hoyas were still leading 43-39 with 11:28 to go when Duke turned up the defense and allowed just two field goals the rest of the way, one a tip-in with 43 seconds left.
Josh McRoberts had 15 points for Duke, which came into the game allowing just 52.3 points per game. The win moved coach Mike Krzyzewski into 10th place alone on the career victory list with No. 760. He had been tied with former Western Kentucky coach Ed Diddle.
Jessie Sapp had 13 points for the Hoyas, whose other losses were both at home.
Georgetown shot just 26.1 percent (6-for-23) in the second half as Duke no longer allowed the Hoyas layups on backdoors or easy shots down low. The Blue Devils made the Hoyas work on each possession and suddenly Duke was able to start hitting shots in the second half, especially Paulus and Scheyer, who scored 16 straight points for the Blue Devils in the stretch where they took the lead for good.
Duke was 9-for-16 from the field in the second and the backcourt tandem of Paulus, a sophomore, and Scheyer, a freshman, were 6-for-8 after going a combined 0-for-4 in the first half.
Roy Hibbert, Georgetown's 7-foot-2 center, scored on a drive with 6:27 to go - one of the two field goals over the final 11 1/2 minutes - to give the Hoyas a 49-47 lead.
Paulus made two free throws to tie it 15 seconds later, and his driving layup after he tipped a long rebound to himself gave the Blue Devils the lead for good with 4:55 left.
Georgetown then committed two of its 11 second-half turnovers on the next three possessions and the 6-1 Paulus drove around Hibbert for a 54-50 lead, sending the crowd at Cameron Indoor Stadium into a frenzy.
The Hoyas beat then-No. 1 Duke 87-84 last season to end the Blue Devils' 17-game winning streak. Paulus turned the ball over with 4 seconds left in that game and Duke never got the chance to tie.
McRoberts had seven rebounds and six assists for Duke and DeMarcus Nelson had 12 points.
Hibbert had 11 points and six rebounds for Georgetown. Jeff Green had eight points, 10 rebounds and five assists.
Nelson hit 3s over Georgetown's zone on Duke's first two possessions but the Hoyas went on a 12-0 run to go up 14-6.
Georgetown's lead could have been much bigger but the Hoyas couldn't hit from 3-point range, going 1-for-4 from beyond the arc during the run. They led 34-27 at halftime.
Georgetown was quicker and better inside than Duke but for some reason kept firing 3s, finishing 1-for-8 from there for the half. The Hoyas held Duke to 28.6 percent from the field in the first half and that included holding an 11-4 edge in offensive rebounds.
It was the second straight poor shooting performance by the Blue Devils, who shot 31.8 percent in a 54-51 win over Indiana on Tuesday, the fifth-worst shooting percentage under Krzyzewski.
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