An ugly first half turns into a route for a Duke team looking for some consistency. Duke got 24 points from Nolan Smith today who did it all over the court. Shooting 10-17. Jon Scheyer also put up numbers today off the heels of his 36 point game against Gardner-Webb, Scheyer added 20 tonight against better competition. Singler is still in the midst of a slump only shooting 3-8, 0-5 from 3. He added only 9 points to the total today.
Defensively Duke was sharp, forcing 18 turnovers and outrebounding the Zags 40-3, Duke also blocked 5 shots in this one. As sharp as Duke was defensively it must be noted that the catalyst for Gonzaga Matt Bouldin is still recovering from a concussion suffered two games ago, he was not himself in this game but 5 turnovers and 1-7 shooting is not a Matt Bouldin game. I hate to quantify a win or deflate enthusiasm as Duke would have won this game regardless, it would not have been such a blowout under normal circumstances. Regardless, this is a good win for Duke.
| DUKE BLUE DEVILS | |||||||||||
| STARTERS | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | OFF | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PF | PTS |
| Nolan Smith, G | 10-17 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 24 |
| Jon Scheyer, G | 5-12 | 2-4 | 8-9 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 20 |
| Kyle Singler, F | 3-8 | 0-5 | 3-4 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| Lance Thomas, F | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Miles Plumlee, F | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| BENCH | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | OFF | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PF | PTS |
| Andre Dawkins, G | 1-6 | 0-4 | 4-4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Ryan Kelly, F | 2-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Mason Plumlee, F | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Brian Zoubek, C | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Jordan Davidson, G | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Steve Johnson, F | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | FGM-A | 3PM-A | FTM-A | OFF | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | PF | PTS |
| 27-60 | 6-19 | 16-20 | 8 | 40 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 22 | 76 | |
| 45.0% | 31.6% | 80.0% | |||||||||
