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Saturday, January 19
Durham, N.C.
6:00 p.m.
Duke University
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Clemson
Nelson Leads No. 7 Duke Past No. 24 Clemson, 93-80
1/19/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - DeMarcus Nelson scored 24 points and No. 7 Duke beat No. 24 Clemson 93-80 on Saturday night for their 22nd straight win in the series.
Kyle Singler added 17 points and keyed the game-breaking run for the Blue Devils (15-1, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference). They blew a 12-point first-half lead, regrouped and eventually ran away from the Tigers while improving to 54-4 against them at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Gerald Henderson had 16 points, Nolan Smith scored 13 and Jon Scheyer finished with 12 for Duke, which overcame a serious height disadvantage by turning up the defensive pressure and riding some hot shooting to win its fifth straight.
Clemson held a 42-26 rebounding advantage, but the Tigers turned it over 21 times - 5.5 more than their average. Duke turned those miscues into 37 points and shot 53.4 percent, knocking down 10 of 11 shots in one early stretch.
K.C. Rivers scored 16 points to lead the Tigers (14-4, 2-2), who were denied their first victory in the series since an overtime triumph at home more than a decade ago. They haven't won at Cameron since 1995.
After Clemson tied it for the last time when Rivers' three-pointer with 11 minutes remaining made it 58-all, Nelson and Singler took over.
About 15 seconds later, Nelson knocked down a three from the left corner, putting Duke ahead for good and starting the decisive 23-7 run.
Singler later hit threes about a minute apart, capping the run by converting from the same spot that Nelson did to make it 81-65 with 5:45 left.
Demontez Still finished with 15 points and Trevor Booker had 15 points and 10 rebounds for Clemson, which had its two-game winning streak snapped.
Duke came out firing, building an early double-figure lead and hitting 10 of 11 shots, with Scheyer's 3 from the corner capping that burst and concluding the 15-2 run that made it 26-14 with 11 minutes left in the half. Clemson tightened things up, pulling within 41-38 on Terrence Oglesby's 3 with 32 seconds left.
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