NEWARK, N.J. – For 19 minutes of Thursday night’s Duke-Arizona Sweet 16 game at Prudential Center, it was a dead-even battle.
Then the Blue Devils pressed the accelerator and hit a gear perhaps no other team in the country has.
A Kon Knueppel 3-pointer, and a Cooper Flagg trey from the top of the key at the first half buzzer, gave the Blue Devils the shot of adrenaline they needed.
And the trip to the locker room didn’t cool them off at all. In all it was a 20-5 run spanning the final minute of the first half, and the first 4:19 of the second, that propelled Duke to an eventual 19-point second-half lead, and they held on for a 100-93 win.