Duke and Kansas continued its a trend of having close, hard-fought games between the two teams and that didn’t change in the Champions Classic on Tuesday evening.
A sold-out Madison Square Garden got to witness a classic between the No. 4 Blue Devils and No. 3 Jayhawks that tipped-off the college basketball season.
Duke kept the same starting five as it did from its second exhibition game against Fort Wayne in Tre Jones, Jordan Goldwire, Cassius Stanley, Matthew Hurt, and Vernon Carey Jr.
The two teams went back-and-forth in the first half, Duke leading by as many as five points and Kansas once holding a four-point lead, but it was the Blue Devils who took the lead entering halftime at 33-30.