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Coastal Carolina came out Thursday night and quickly made it clear that this was going to be a physical game for Duke.
In the first few minutes, the Chanticleers hammered Duke inside, and that continued for the whole game. Several players were in situations that could have resulted in injury. John Blackwell was thrown to the ground and grimaced in immediate pain. It looked much more serious than it was, fortunately. Ngongba got pushed backwards and hit the floor hard enough to make a noise that was heard throughout Cameron. Sebastian Wilkins got poked in the eye, which could have been quite serious. There was more, too.
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All it really seemed to do in the end, though, was to piss Duke off. After adjusting to what Coastal was trying to do, Duke shot out to a 16-0 lead, en route to a 113-52 win. The 61-point margin was the biggest of Jon Scheyer’s career.
Pat Ngongba was particularly dominant, with a career-best 28 points. In fact, Duke and Ngongba were so dominant that he was personally outscoring Coastal Carolina until Trey Perry got the Chanticleers to 29 points with 11:33 to play.
Duke’s offense was really impressive, and offense always gets the most attention, but the defense was tremendous.
Coastal only shot 4-22 from deep (18 percent), and 19-63 (30 percent) overall, and a fair amount of that came after Duke eased up late. Coastal was outrebounded 53-27, and had 15 turnovers.
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Of those rebounds by Duke, 39 were defensive. Toss in the 17 turnovers, and that’s 56 potential shots Duke denied Coastal. Ross in 9 blocks, and that’s 65.
The pressure was overwhelming, but it wasn’t just coming from defense.
Duke’s offense put a lot of pressure on the Chanticleers as well.
Ngongba shot 10-13/2-3, and that, alone, was almost impossible to overcome. He also had 9 rebounds. John Blackwell had 15, Dame Sarr had 12, Cayden Boozer 11, and JoJo Boumtje Boumtje had 9.
Duke assisted on 25 of 38 shots, which works out to nearly 66 percent.
And this is something truly…
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