Duke returned from a week-long hiatus on Tuesday to post a critical 80-71 victory at Georgia Tech, just its second win in the past six games. The time off certainly helped the Blue Devils in terms of their energy level, though so did sophomore Grayson Allen scoring 16 of his game-high 27 points in the second half.
This win told us some things about Duke and how it's going to approach the final stretch of the regular season as well as the postseason. Some of that fits with what we've learned about this team over the course of the season, while there were a few new wrinkles (and not just because assistant Jeff Capel stepped in for an under-the-weather Mike Krzyzewski on the sideline).