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7 p.m.
Women's Basketball
vs Countdown to Craziness
Thursday, December 3
Durham, N.C.
7:00 PM
Duke University
7-1
84
vs
64
Minnesota
4-2
1
2
3
4
F
Minnesota
16
17
21
10
64
#14/13 Duke
25
17
23
19
84
Balanced Effort Paces Blue Devils Past Minnesota, 84-64
12/3/2015 8:50:00 PM | Women's Basketball
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke sophomore Azurá Stevens recorded her fifth double-double of the year with a game-high 26 points and 11 rebounds and redshirt sophomore Rebecca Greenwell added 17 points, eight rebounds and five assists to pace the 14th-ranked Blue Devils to an 84-66 victory over Minnesota in the Big Ten ACC Challenge Thursday in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Duke improves to 7-1 and is 7-2 all-time in the event and 5-0 at home. Four of Duke's five starters finished the night in double digits and the Blue Devils dished out a season-high 22 assists on 34 field goals.
Freshman Angela Salvadores added 11 points and matched her season-high eight assists, while junior Oderah Chidom rounded out the double-digit scorers with a season-high 13 points. Carlie Wagner and Rachel Banham were Minnesota's top scorers with 23 and 21 points, respectively.
The Blue Devils were off to the races from the opening tip, jumping out to an 8-2 lead in the first 2:14. Duke's hot hand continued as it built its first-quarter lead to as many as 11, 25-14, before Minnesota cut it to single digits again at the first break. Stevens led the charge on a balanced stat sheet for the Blue Devils with seven points and two assists.
Duke's defense was equally as impressive as the offense. The Gophers, shooting 40 percent on the year from long range, struggled with the Blue Devils' suffocating perimeter defense, missing their first 10 shots from behind the arc. Minnesota finished the game with a season-low five three pointers and shot just 20 percent from long range overall.
Minnesota (4-2) started to warm up in the closing minutes of the second quarter, knocking down two of their five three-point attempts, but the Blue Devils responded well in taking a 42-33 lead into the break. Stevens finished with 13 points on 6-of-9 shooting in the opening 20 minutes, while Greenwell had six points, six rebounds and five assists.
The Gophers cut the lead to six with a trifecta to start the third quarter, the closest it had been since the six-minute mark of the first quarter, before Duke ran off six unanswered to stretch its advantage back to double figures, 48-36.
With its lead at 74-56 early in the third quarter, the Blue Devils continued to push the pace and extended the lead to 82-56 with five minutes remaining in the game. Greenwell put the exclamation point on the 14-0 run with her third three-pointer of the night as Duke rolled to the 20-point victory.
The Blue Devils are back in action Sunday, Dec. 6 at No. 2 South Carolina.
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Team Stats
MINN
DU
FG%
.403
.500
3FG%
.200
.444
FT%
.643
.615
RB
30
44
TO
15
16
STL
6
9
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
26
FGM
10
3FGM
1
FTM
5
Pts
17
FGM
7
3FGM
3
FTM
0
Pts
13
FGM
6
3FGM
0
FTM
1
Pts
11
FGM
4
3FGM
3
FTM
0
Players Mentioned
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