{"id":140895,"date":"2017-12-20T21:33:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T02:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=140895"},"modified":"2017-12-20T21:33:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T02:33:54","slug":"carter-leads-no-4-duke-to-104-40-rout-of-evansville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/20\/carter-leads-no-4-duke-to-104-40-rout-of-evansville\/","title":{"rendered":"Carter leads No. 4 Duke to 104\u201440 rout of Evansville"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wendell Carter (Photo by TonyTheTiger – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DURHAM, N.C. \u2014 Freshman Wendell Carter Jr. scored a season-best 27 points, and No. 4 Duke routed Evansville 104-40 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Marvin Bagley III added 18 points and Grayson Allen finished with 16 to help the Blue Devils (12-1) bounce back from their lone loss with one of their best defensive performances of the season.<\/p>\n

Duke blocked nine shots, forced a season-best 21 turnovers and turned them into 39 points against a slow-paced Evansville team.<\/p>\n

Dainius Chatkevicius had 12 points to lead the Purple Aces (10-3), who had their five-game winning streak snapped. Evansville entered allowing an average of 61.9 points per game. The Blue Devils nearly had that at halftime, leading 58-18 the break.<\/p>\n

Gary Trent Jr. scored 13 points to help Duke put this one out of reach early. The Blue Devils needed just 13 1\/2 minutes to build a 20-point lead and 2 1\/2 more minutes to go up by 30.<\/p>\n

They hit 12 of their first 16 3-point attempts and finished with a season-high 16 3s after shooting 27 per cent from long range in the 89-84 loss at Boston College on Dec. 9.<\/p>\n

BIG PICTURE<\/p>\n

Evansville: The Purple Aces like to play slowly \u2014 frequently milking the shot clock into the low teens or longer before taking their first shot or, more often, stumbling into a turnover \u2014 and that deliberate style worked against them as the Blue Devils methodically stretched their lead into the 20s and well beyond.<\/p>\n

Duke: The Blue Devils had 11 days to stew on the loss that knocked them from No. 1. Duke allowed the Eagles to hit 15 3-pointers in that game, but clamped down against an Evansville team that makes 49.4 per cent of its 3s \u2014 the best in Division I. Evansville was just 5 of 14 from long range.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Evansville: The Purple Aces host Illinois State on Saturday in their Missouri Valley Conference opener.<\/p>\n

Duke: The Blue Devils have another extended break, this one lasting nine days before Florida State comes in Dec. 30 for their first home ACC game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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