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Notes: Georgia Tech 71, Duke 67
1/9/2010 4:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Team Notes:
- The loss for the Blue Devils ended a four-game winning streak against Georgia Tech. It was the second road loss for Duke this season.
- After Georgia Tech made the first field goal of the game, Duke went on a 12-0 run over the next 2:19 minutes to take a 12-3 lead in the contest. Duke tallied an assist on each of its first five field goals during the run.
- Duke was outrebounded 38-32, falling to 1-2 when its opponent outrebounds them.
- The Blue Devils shot a season-low .214 (6-of-28) from behind the three-point line. The 28 attempts were the second most to the 32 Duke shot against Radford.
- It was only the third time this season Duke has made fewer free throws than its opponent. Georgia Tech made 13 more free throws than Duke, while attempting 14 more in the game.
- Duke assisted on 15 of its 26 made field goals in the game.
- The Blue Devils forced 15 turnovers, marking the 10th time this season they have forced 15 or more in a game.
Player Notes:
- Freshman Mason Plumlee reached double figures in scoring for the second time in his career. Plumlee made 5-of-6 field goal attempts for his 10 points in the game.
- Plumlee hauled in six rebounds to give him three games this year with at least five rebounds.
- The three assists for Plumlee matched a season high. He also had three assists against Gardner-Webb.
- Plumlee blocked two shots to give him three games with two or more blocks and at least one block in six of his last seven games.
- Sophomore Miles Plumlee was a perfect 4-of-4 from the field and is now shooting .638 (44-of-69) from the field for the season.
- Plumlee had five rebounds, the 11th time in 15 games he has pulled down at least five boards.
- Senior Jon Scheyer notched his seventh game this season and 22nd career game with at least 20 points. He has scored in double figures in all 15 games this season and has scored at least 20 points in six of the last seven games.
- The 20 points moves Scheyer past Cherokee Parks into 21st on Duke's all-time scoring list. Scheyer now has 1,645 points.
- Scheyer dished out six assists and now has five or more assists in 12 of the 15 games this season.
- With the six assists, Scheyer turned the ball over one time and now has 93 assists compared to just 20 turnovers on the season.
- Junior Kyle Singler extended his consecutive starts streak to 42 games and has now started in 85 career contests.
- The five rebounds by Singler give him at least five boards in 14 of the 15 contests this season.
- Singler had three assists for his ninth game on the season with three or more assists.
- Junior Nolan Smith fell short of double figures in scoring for the first time this season, finishing with nine points.
- Senior Brian Zoubek tallied five rebounds to give him at least five rebounds off the bench in 12 of the 15 games this year.
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