Roach's 22 Lead No. 15 Duke Past Iowa, 74-62, at MSG

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Roach's 22 Lead No. 15 Duke Past Iowa, 74-62, at MSG

12/7/2022 12:07:00 AM | Men's Basketball

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NEW YORK – Thanks to a career-high tying 22 points from junior Jeremy Roach, No. 15 Duke defeated Iowa, 74-62, Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden in the Jimmy V Classic. Freshman Kyle Filipowski had his sixth double-double as Duke won its 40th all-time game at MSG, where it has won six straight games and seven of its last eight.

The Blue Devils (9-2) limited the the high-scoring Hawkeyes (6-2) to a season-low 62 points in improving to 4-0 when playing in the Jimmy V Classic.

HOW IT HAPPENED

A high-tempo first five minutes was highlighted by Jeremy Roach and Tyrese Proctor, who scored five points and four points respectively to help give Duke an 11-5 lead at the first media timeout.
After Iowa tied the contest at 11 apiece, back-to-back three pointers by Jacob Grandison and Dariq Whitehead established a 17-11 advantage for the Blue Devils with 10:33 remaining in the first half.
Duke made six consecutive shots to open up a 36-24 lead, its largest of the game up to that point, at the 3:48 mark.
The Blue Devils took a 37-31 lead into halftime.
Kyle Filipowski extended his streak of scoring double figures in every game this season with a three-pointer just under three minutes into the second half.
Duke held Iowa's offense to a stretch of 1-of-9 from the field to secure a 61-45 lead at the under-8 media timeout.
Roach reached 20 points for the second time this season, and third time in his career, with a layup to put Duke ahead, 67-52.
Duke put the game on ice with clutch free throw shooting down the strech and Filipowski snagged a late offensive rebound for his sixth double-double.

GAME NOTES

The game was Duke's fourth appearance in the Jimmy V Classic with a record of 4-0. The previous appearances were wins over Kentucky in 1998 and 2001 and over Florida in 2016.
The game was the ninth in the series versus Iowa, with Duke now leading 8-1. The teams met for the first time since the 2001 season.
The game was Duke's 58th all-time at Madison Square Garden, with the Blue Devils now 40-18 in those games. Duke has won six straight and seven of its last eight at MSG.
As both a Duke player, assistant coach, and now head coach, Scheyer made his 25th appearance at MSG (20-5).
Duke held Iowa to a season-low 62 points – its previous low of 66 came vs. TCU on Nov. 26.
Iowa became the ninth Duke opponent in 11 games this season to score less than 70 on Duke.
Duke out-rebounded Iowa, 45-35 – marking the ninth time in 11 games this season with a rebounding advantage and seventh time with a double-digit advantage.
Duke held Iowa both below its scoring average entering the game (86.4) and its rebounding average (40.3).
Filipowski recorded his sixth double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds in 25 minutes.
He leads all freshmen nationally with his six double-doubles.
Filipowski has scored 10+ points in every game this season.
Roach matched his career high with 22 points on 8-of-18 from the field, 3-of-6 from three and 3-of-3 at the free throw line. It is his second 20-point game this season (21 vs. Xavier) and third of his career. He also scored 22 at Virginia Tech as a freshman.
Duke is now 7-0 in Roach's career when he hits three or more three-pointers in a game.
Mitchell scored 17 points on 6-of-8 shooting and 5-of-5 at the free throw line with five rebounds. It was one shy of his career-high 18 vs. Jacksonville in the season opener.
It marks Mitchell's second straight game with 15+ points after scoring 15 vs. Boston College on Saturday.
Whitehead had career highs in points (eight) and rebounds (six) in a career-high 20 minutes.
Proctor scored eight points with three assists and no turnovers.
Over his last four games, Proctor has scored 45 points (11.3 avg). He scored 38 over his first seven this season (5.4).
Young pulled down a game-high 11 rebounds – his second double-digit rebound game this season (career-high 15 vs. Oregon State) and the fifth of his career.
Young blocked three of Duke's seven shots – a season high for him and matching the career-high three he had vs. Penn State on March 7, 2020, while playing at Northwestern.

QUOTES

"The two things I always connect to Duke Basketball is playing defense and sharing the ball. And we'll continue to emphasize that. But just proud of our effort. Proud of the buy-in our guys have had, and I think we still have a lot of room to grow." -- head coach Jon Scheyer
"Yeah, he's our captain. He keeps us together. He's been here. A lot of us, you know, it's our first time playing in the Garden, he's played all these big-time events, so he keeps us together. He keeps us as one, and that's what a captain does. --freshman Mark Mitchell on junior Jeremy Roach's play

NEXT GAME

Duke hosts Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday in the Blue Devils' final non-conference game of the regular season. Tip is set for 5:30 p.m. ET on ACC Network.

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