Duke 78, Eastern Kentucky 43

A very comfortable win for the Devils today spurred on by a tenacious defense and a whole lot of Taylor King. Duke forced 31 EKU turnovers in 70 possessions, and for most of the game turned the Colonials over essentially every other time down the court. EKU played a series of hybrid zones on defense, and Duke elected to simply shoot over it - 26 threes against 21 twos. Thankfully, the three point shooting was seriously on, with Taylor King leading the charge. He hit 6 of 11 from downtown on his way to 27 points, which is a Duke record for points scored off the bench. Both King and Scheyer (who was 2-3 himself) are at 50% or better from downtown on the season. Here's the HD Box from today's game:

O. Poss

D. Poss

+/-

Pts

2PM-A

3PM-A

FTM-A

FGA

Ast

TO

STL

BLK

ORB

DRB

King

42

38

+38

27/55

3-3

6-11

3-4

14/30

2/7

0/42

3/38

0/20

0/17

3/14

Scheyer

50

50

+32

9/61

0-0

2-3

3-3

3/33

3/17

2/50

1/50

0/31

0/20

1/19

Henderson

34

34

+25

10/39

3-5

1-3

1-2

8/22

4/10

5/34

0/34

0/17

1/9

2/12

Thomas

34

32

+21

7/40

2-2

0-0

3-6

2/22

1/10

3/34

0/32

0/20

2/14

3/12

Paulus

32

32

+19

3/37

0-1

1-1

0-0

2/22

2/11

3/32

2/32

0/20

0/12

1/13

Nelson

51

50

+19

12/53

4-5

1-4

1-2

9/35

0/13

1/51

2/50

1/27

1/19

3/14

Singler

32

35

+16

7/33

2-3

0-1

3-4

4/22

1/11

1/32

0/35

2/18

1/9

4/11

Smith

33

33

+9

1/34

0-0

0-2

1-2

2/21

2/12

1/33

2/33

0/20

0/12

0/10

Pocius

6

6

+4

0/7

0-1

0-1

0-0

2/6

1/2

0/6

0/6

0/2

2/5

0/1

McClure

12

13

+3

0/15

0-0

0-0

0-2

0/8

1/6

0/12

0/13

0/9

1/5

1/4

Davidson

4

5

-3

0/3

0-0

0-0

0-0

0/2

0/1

0/4

0/5

0/6

0/4

0/3

Zoubek

20

22

-8

2/13

1-1

0-0

0-1

1/12

0/4

4/20

1/22

0/15

0/9

0/7

Duke

70

70

+35

78

15-21

11-26

15-26

47

17/26

20/70

11/70

3/41

10/27

19/24

0.714

0.423

0.577

65.38

28.57

15.71

7.32

37.04

79.17

Duke shot lights out from the floor (.670 efg%), making up for the fact that they coughed the ball up nearly 30% of the time. This was by far the worst turnover performance on the year, and hopefully it'll end up being a blip, not a pattern.

Not surprisingly, King led the way in +/-. Zoubek pulled up the rear, which also wasn't too surprising since he coughed up the ball 4 times in just 20 possessions with him out there. On the lineup front, there wasn't a whole lot of useful data for this game, since K was constantly changing lineups. Only two saw the court more than one time, and also only two saw more than 5 total possessions of court time. McClure and Pocius integrated themselves back onto the court tonight, but Marty got hurt with a rolled ankle and will likely miss Tuesday's game.