Duke faced Clemson in a basketball game. Duke led early but Clemson fought back. Tyrese Proctor and Mark Mitchell were key players for Duke. Duke led 32-26 at halftime. Kyle Filipowski fouled out. Duke won 72-71 with Tyrese Proctor making two free throws with 1 second left. Duke forced turnovers in the last 2 minutes to secure the win. Clemson lost 21 straight games at Duke.
Final: Duke 77, #Hokies 67. Blue Devils shoot 55.4% on night, 59.3% in second half.
Duke keeping the #Hokies at bay down the stretch. Has dominated the boards. 37-20 advantage, 15 second-chance points. 14-point game with a minute and a half left.
Cattoor three with 5:18 left pulls the #Hokies within 67-59. He's got 15 tonight. VT hanging in there but need to slow down Duke somehow. Blue Devils shooting 55% for the game.
All right, back to the basketball game where Duke's shooting ... *73 percent* this half!?!? That can't be right. OK, it is. #Hokies still within 63-56 after that basket by Pedulla with 7:54 left. He'll get a FT on the other side of the TV timeout too.
Kyle Filipowski just picked up his fourth foul with nine minutes to play and Duke clinging to a 61-54 lead in Blacksburg. As usual, Duke is getting hosed by the refs.
#Hokies and Duke are a combined 12 of 14 from the field in the last few minutes. Wild pace. Blue Devils lead 58-51 with 10:47 remaining.
Duke shooting 64% from 3 after 30 mins.
Duke goes back into sans-Flip survival mode as he's saddled with 3 fouls.
Roach bails Blue Devils out with a 3-pointer as first half clock expires. Duke takes 35-29 lead to halftime after leading by as many as 11. Hokies have life...and possession to start the 2nd half.
Well ... Duke has a 6-point lead again (35-29). Thanks to Jeremy Roach's second-chance 3-pointer. Nice little rear-end pat of Robbie Beran after the horn, too. https://t.co/4XpaFLNW4O
Second-chance points: Duke 8, #Hokies 0. Blue Devils lead 35-29 at halftime.
Dagger three by Jeremy Roach at the buzzer after an offensive rebound. Sapped a little bit of the #Hokies' momentum, though they've cut the Duke lead to a more manageable 35-29 at the break.
Duke's lead with 3 minutes left in 1st half Sat.: 32-20. Halftime lead was 32-26. Duke's lead with 3 1/2 minutes left in 1st half tonight: 32-21. This Jon Scheyer timeout is the, "let's learn from Saturday and actually close a half strong."
Duke had a 32-21 lead looking to keep it in double digits at halftime. Instead, Blue Devils turn it over on three consecutive possessions. VT cuts Duke lead to 32-26 with 1:19 left until halftime.
Cattoor dunk on a backdoor pass pulls the #Hokies within 32-26 with 1:19 left in the half.
Mark Mitchell has all 5 of Duke's turnovers. (I'm not double-digit tracker'ing that one)
32-21 Duke after that Mark Mitchell dunk. Mike Young calls timeout. #Hokies in the danger zone here near the end of the first half. Can't let this deficit get too big.
3 straight turnovers for a Duke team that doesn't commit many. Halted by Mark Mitchell's put-back dunk.
VT scored 13 points on its first 8 possessions. VT has 4 points on 11 possessions since then. Didn't pick up on anything specific Duke changed.
Offensive Rebounds tonight: Hokies -> 0/9 (misses) Duke -> 3/11 (27.3%)
#Hokies have missed eight of their last nine shots and trail Duke 26-17 at U8 TV break.
26-17 Blue Devils with 6:49 left in the first half. Little offensive rhythm for the #Hokies right now. Not so for Duke, which is 50% from the field, 4-for-7 on threes.
Six-minute FG drought here for the #Hokies. Less than ideal. Duke hits another three. It's 24-15 Blue Devils.
First timeout comes at 12:38 which means another will be coming along shortly. Hokies got easy points on their first four possessions, but Duke has a 14-13 lead as Caleb Foster already has eight points
Ahh, there we go. It's 14-13 Duke at the first break at the 12:38 mark. Good ball movement for the #Hokies early. Four assists on five baskets. Two Caleb Foster threes put the Blue Devils up.
#Hokies #Duke #TVTeddy Buckle up, kids.
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After Clemson tied the game at 59 with 5:54 left, Duke shot 13 free throws the rest of the way. Duke shot free throws on 7 of its final 12 possessions. Absolutely hate it for Clemson. Tigers played well enough to win.
Crushing loss for Clemson at Duke. Tigers were up 69-64 and then got the ball on the other end after two missed free throws by Devils with 2:13 left. Clemson turned it over four times on its next four possessions.
Update: Tyrese Proctor FTs win it at the end against Clemson. Sophs coming through for Duke. https://t.co/57TB4ojvXE
Duke beats Clemson 72-71. Tyrese Proctor made two FTs with 1 second left. Duke forced 4 turnovers in the last 2 minutes, got Kyle Filipowski's 3-point play for the first of three lead changes in the final 16 seconds. Blue Devils are at VT on Monday night.
The last whistle won. Gutsy win for Duke at home, heartbreaking loss for Clemson. Whew.
Crazy ending in Cameron. Tyrese Proctor draws the foul with under a second left and makes both free throws for @DukeMBB to beat @ClemsonMBB by one.
Duke escapes with a win at Cameron against Clemson. Tyrese Proctor sinks a pair of FT’s with 1 second left. Tigers have now lost 21 straight at Duke.
Clemson loses by 1. Absolutely despicable technical in the first. Ridiculous bailout call at the buzzer. Screw Duke forever.
Proctor makes both free throws, Duke wins by one. Quite a game!
YOU MAKE THE CALL: was this a foul on Clemson to give Duke the win?? 😳🤔 https://t.co/aZBO2SzMtM
Duke ESCAPES at home against Clemson by one. Tyrese Proctor hits two free throws with one second left for the win.
FINAL: Duke 72, Clemson 71
Wooooow! A FOUL called on Clemson with 0.4 seconds left.
PJ Hall puts Clemson back ahead, 71-70, with two FTs. Now Duke won't go to Flip (just fouled out). Have to think Tyrese Proctor going to the rim is the best bet, with Jared McCain on his side of the floor.
Clemson 71, Duke 70. Blue Devils have possession. 7.4 seconds left
Hall cans em both. Clemson up one with 7.4 to play. Duke ball.
Hall makes 'em both. Clemson leads 71-70 with 7.4 seconds to play. Duke ball coming out timeout. Let's see what Scheyer draws up.
P.J. Hall fouls out Filipowski on the drive. Headed to the line for two free throws and Clemson down one.
Filipowski fouls out. Hall to the line for 2 with 7.4 left
PJ Hall fouls Filipowski out with 7.4 seconds to play, and he is going to the line. Clemson down one.
Filipowski makes the free throw. Duke up by one. Clemson time out and the ball with 12.4 to go.
Filipowski with THE play of the game, despite everything else. Spin around Schieffelin, underhanded layup, and-1, made free-throw. TLDR: Duke 70, Clemson 69 with 12.4 to play. Clemson ball.
Officials down the stretch have been brutal. That’s not a foul. The last 5 times Filipowski has done that it hasn’t been a foul. You certainly can’t call that and not call Duke coming through PJ Hall’s back.
Duke by 1. Timeout Clemson. 12.4 left
Duke down 2 with the ball. 19.2 seconds left. Filipowski has had a difficult time inside. If you’re Scheyer, do you go to your big guy or take your chances with a jumper ?
4 straight turnovers for Clemson -- Jared McCain got the first two by himself, got a hand on the third one, fourth one was a nice play by Mark Mitchell. Duke's ball, 19.2 seconds left, down 69-67 with a side in-bound.
Duke down two with the ball and 19 seconds to play in Cameron.
Clemson leads 69-65 with 2:13 to play, and Duke calls timeout. Gut-check time for the Blue Devils, who have taken 11 fewer shots this half than the Tigers.
Both Hall and Filipowski now have 4 fouls. Final TV timeout … Clemson 65, Duke 63. Filipowski will have 2 free throws when play resumes. He’s struggled from the line today.
Four fouls on PJ Hall now, too. He and Filipowski playing a dangerous game. Clemson up 65-63 with 3:20 left.
Duke puts Kyle Filipowski back in at the 6:06 mark. Has 4 fouls and given the way PJ Hall and Ian Schieffelin have played inside ... don't know that I'd count on him finishing this game.
Tyrese Proctor, man. Possession had turned to nothing... so he jacks a 3 from Jon Scheyer's spot on the sideline and buries it. Duke back up 59-57, and Clemson calls timeout. Proctor up to 16 points, four made 3s. First time in his career he's hit four 3s in consecutive games.
Proctor from JJ Redick range puts Duke back up ... this should be a fun final 6 minutes
Filipowski checking back in for Duke at the next possible opportunity. Clemson up 57-56 after PJ Hall's last 3.
Duke calls timeout after Clemson cuts it to one. Blue Devils still narrowly up 52-51, have made 5 of their last 7 shots. https://t.co/8mAXziku7n
Worst-case scenario for Duke there: Filipowski checks back in... only for Tyrese Proctor to turn over the inbounds pass to Ryan Young, and then Flip picks up his fourth foul immediately thereafter. Back to the bench.
Bad turnover out of the timeout, not 4th foul on Filipowski. 12 minutes still left. Clemson lurking at 47-44
That's was Clemson's 9th offensive rebound, to just one for Duke. Altogether, Clemson's dominating the boards: 39-28
Another timeout as GT cannot get a stop on defense nor can they score against VT, GT trails 34-18 with 5:36 left in the half. The Hokies hit 5 of their last 6, GT shooting a woeful 26.9%
Duke leads Clemson 32-26 at halftime. A little meat left on the bone for Duke, which was up 32-20 with 3 minutes left. Four of those six points to end the half for Clemson came on 1-and-1 free-throw situations.
Clemson shot a frosty 29% in the first half. Duke led by as many as 12 but the Blue Devils went scoreless over the final three minutes of first half to take a 32-26 halftime lead.
HALF: Duke 32 Clemson 26
Halftime: Duke 32, Clemson 26
17-2 Duke run. 12 point lead
Duke offense: 1.12 points per possession Duke defense: 0.77 ppp Clemson has 2 points in the last 6 1/2 minutes.
Mark Mitchell and Tyrese Proctor: 19 points, 6/10 shooting, 4/5 from 3 Rest of Duke: 10 points, 4/13 shooting, 1/5 from 3
Duke is on a 14-2 run to build a 29-20 lead with 5:10 left in the half
Back-to-back Tyrese Proctor 3s, and that one was a stepback... Brad Brownell calls timeout. Duke leads 29-20, on a 14-2 (!!) run. Proctor? It's been a few games now, and, well... dude might be all the way back.
Proctor drills 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions, looks to Duke bench and shakes his head. Blue Devils up 29-20 on Clemson, which is shooting 34.8%
You'll start rethinking Duke's ceiling if this is the Tyrese Proctor it gets every game. Duke is up 29-20; Proctor, coming off a career-high 24 on Tuesday, has 9 points (three 3s), 3 rebounds, 2 assists.
Weird sequence: Sean Stewart seemingly has an awesome block... but it somehow rolls in... and then Jack Clark shoves the ball into Stewart's chest for a technical foul. Clemson up 16-12, but gonna be Duke FTs upcoming.
Clemson with an early 8-0 run at Duke, go out to a 10-5 lead with 15:23 left in the first half. Mark Mitchell bangs a 3 to cut it back to two points. Five points apiece for PJ Hall and Chase Hunter. Media timeout, 10-8, Clemson.
Starters for Clemson-Duke: https://t.co/PZDNmjl6Ij