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Notes: Duke 60, Clemson 47
1/23/2010 11:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Team Notes:
- Duke Athletics joined a national fundraising effort titled "Save Haiti Saturday" to aid the nation's earthquake recovery efforts. Starting with tonight's game at Clemson, the 15 Duke teams currently in competition will display "Save Haiti Saturday" patches in the upcoming weeks to maintain awareness for the relief effort in Haiti.
- The Blue Devils have won 10 of its last 11 games at Littlejohn Coliseum and 24 of the last 26 games in the overall series between the two schools.
- Duke is 4-1 against ranked opponents this season, including a 2-1 record in the ACC.
- The 47 points were a season-low by a Duke opponent and second time this season the Blue Devils held the opposing team under 50 points. The other game was 49 points by Coastal Carolina.
- The 23 points in the first half for Duke was its lowest first half total of the season, seven lower than the previous low of 30 against Clemson in the first meeting of the season on Jan. 3.
- The Blue Devils held its opponent under 30 first half points for the 11th time this season. It is the fifth time they have given up less than 25 points in the opening stanza with two of those coming against Clemson - 12 in the first meeting and 23 tonight.
- Clemson made just 2-of-13 (.154) from behind the three-point line, marking the sixth opponent this season to shoot under 20 percent from beyond the arc against Duke.
- Four Blue Devils scored in double figures, the 13th time in 19 games that four or more players scored at least 10 points for Duke.
- In the final five minutes of the game, Duke made all six of its free throw attempts.
- Duke outrebounded Clemson, 32-30, improving to 15-1 when outrebounding its opponent.
- After 11 first half turnovers, the Blue Devils committed only two turnovers in the second half.
- For the first time this season, Duke's bench did not score a single point. The five starters combined for all 60 of the Blue Devils' points in the game.
Player Notes:
- Freshman Mason Plumlee blocked a shot to give him at least one block in eight of his 13 games this season.
- Sophomore Miles Plumlee grabbed eight rebounds, marking his sixth game this season with eight or more.
- Senior Jon Scheyer tallied his team-leading 18th game with 10 or more points and now has 94 career double figure scoring games.
- Scheyer became the 19th player in Duke history to score at least 1,700 career points and now has 1,703 points in his career.
- Playing all 40 minutes, Scheyer has played at least 35 minutes in seven straight games and has played all 40 minutes in two games this season, the other against Arizona State.
- Junior Kyle Singler extended his consecutive starts streak to 46 games and has now started in 89 career contests.
- Singler reached double figures in scoring for the 16th time this season and 75th time in his career.
- Singler's two steals give him five games this season with two or more steals.
- Junior Nolan Smith posted his team-leading ninth game with 20 or more points. He has at least 10 points in 16 games this season and 39 career games with his double digit scoring performance.
- Smith made 2-of-4 three-point field goals and is shooting .508 (31-of-61) from deep this season.
- Smith was a perfect 4-of-4 from the free throw line to give him 15 consecutive made free throws.
- The two steals give Smith seven games with two or more this season.
- Senior Lance Thomas scored a season-high 13 points. He has scored 10 or more points in five games this season.
- Thomas was 3-of-3 from the free throw line and is now shooting .829 (29-of-35) from the foul line this season after shooting under 60 percent in each of his first three seasons.
- The seven rebounds give Thomas five or more in six games this season. In his last two games he has 19 rebounds.
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