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Notes: Duke 83, Ohio State 67
12/3/2009 9:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Blue Devil Postgame Notes * Ohio State * December 3, 2009
With The Duke Victory:
- Improved to 6-1 on the season.
- Won its fifth straight game.
- Won its 18th straight game in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
- Improved to 2-1 all-time in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge and won its second straight game.
- In the first meeting against Ohio State, improved to 1-0 all-time.
- Won 27 out of the last 30, 41 out of the last 44 and 122 out of the last 131 home games since 2000-01.
- Won its third straight game against a top 10 team in Cameron Indoor Stadium and second consecutive versus a top-five ranked team (#3 Stanford).
Junior Jasmine Thomas
- Posted a career-high 29 points.
- Registered double-figure scoring for the sixth straight game and the 33nd time in her career.
- Converted three old-fashioned three-point plays.
- Totaled 20+ points for the third time this season and the fifth time in her career.
- Hit a career-high 10 field goals.
Junior Krystal Thomas
- Tied a career-high with 13 rebounds.
- Registered double-digit rebounds for the second time this season and fifth time in her career.
- Played a career-high 32 minutes.
- Tied a season-high with four blocked shots.
Senior Joy Cheek
- Left the game at the 15:08 mark of the first half with a left ankle injury. Had four points in the first five minutes before being injured.
- Returned to the game at the 11:13 mark of the second half.
- Finished with four points in nine minutes.
Junior Karima Christmas
- Tied a season high with 10 points.
Sophomore Shay Selby
- Came off the bench in the first half to score five points and had two steals in nine minutes.
- Took a charge for the second straight game.
- Finished with five points, three rebounds and three steals in 20 minutes.
- Tied a career-high with 20 minutes played.
Freshman Allison Vernerey
- Started the second half in place of Joy Cheek.
- Scored eight first half points on 4-of-6 field goals to go along with three rebounds and one blocked shot.
- Registered double-digit scoring for the third straight game and the fourth time this season.
- Finished with a career-high 13 points, eight rebounds, two blocks and two steals in 27 minutes.
Other Duke Notes:
- The Blue Devils are the only team in the nation who play No. 1 Connecticut, No. 2 Stanford, No. 3 Ohio State and No. 4 North Carolina this season.
- Was outrebounded for the second straight game, 40-36.
- Hit 50.0 percent from the field for the second straight game and third time this season.
- Had a season-low 11 turnovers.
- Totaled a season-low nine assists.
- Hit 57.1 percent of its field goals in the second half.
- The 83 points was the second-highest scored for Duke this season.
- Held Ohio State to a season-low 67 points.
- Played its 1,000th career game on the night (669-331 over 35 years).
- Had a season-high 5,237 fans in attendance.
- Jantel Lavender of Ohio State had a Cameron Indoor Stadium record 18 rebounds (previous record was 17 by Angie Crosby of Appalachian State on 12-20-92).
- Will next host Southern California on Sunday, Dec. 6 at 2:00 PM.
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