Duke survives by one at North Carolina State

Posted On: March 2, 2008 By: Cliff Comments: (0)

It sure wasn’t a good game for the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday afternoon as they barely beat an unranked North Carolina State Wolfpack.  With the 87-86 victory it gave Coack K his 800th career win but he wasn’t too sure it was going to happen on Saturday as the players just weren’t responding like he had hoped.

DeMarcus Nelson and Jon Scheyer led the Blue Devils with 19 points each.  Both made key baskets late in the game to push the Blue Devils to victory.

Greg Paulus hit a couple huge three’s during the Blue Devils comeback as well and finished the game with 15 points.  Kyle Singler and Gerald Henderson helped out with 12 points each as well.  I really think that Singler could have taken the game over if he had wanted too and put up atleast 25 points.  They just couldn’t stop him driving to the basket and getting layups.  I think Singler should have kept taking the ball the basket and it wouldn’t have been as close of a game.

A win is a win so we have to be glad for that.  The win kept the Blue Devils in the hunt for a #1 seed depending how they close out the last two weeks of the season.

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