Duke advances to Sweet 16 with 93-55 win over JMU

Brooklyn, NY – Is behind record-setting eight 3-pointers Jared McCainThe Duke men’s basketball team advanced to the Sweet 16 by defeating James Madison 93-55 in the second round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament on Sunday night., McCain finished with a total of 30 points and got into double figures tyreese proctor, jeremy roach And kyle filipowski, Who scored 18, 15 and 14 runs respectively.

How did this happen

• Duke opens the scoring from beyond the arc Jared McCain Drilled a 3-pointer on the first possession of the game. A pull-up jumper from jeremy roach and by a sting kyle filipowski The Blue Devils led 7-2 early. Thanks to McCain’s second 3-pointer in the opening minutes, Duke led 12–4 at the first timeout of the half.
• McCain was active early in the break and hit a corner 3-pointer to give Duke a double-digit lead, 15-5, for the first time in the game. Back-to-back triples by tyreese proctor The Blue Devils’ lead increased to 12, 21–9, as the clock ticked down to under 12 minutes and McCain nailed his fourth from distance on the next possession, forcing a JMU timeout.
• McCain’s fifth 3-pointer tied the Duke freshman NCAA Tournament record for 3-pointers made, putting the Blue Devils ahead 31–16 with just over seven minutes remaining before halftime. Duke’s defense held JMU without a field goal for three minutes and continued to extend its lead to 40–19 with a Filipowski layup – which triggered JMU’s second timeout of the first half.
• McCann’s seventh 3-pointer tied the program record for 3-pointers in an NCAA Tournament game just before halftime and Filipowski converted a three-point-play to make it a 26-point game, 53–27.
• McCain scored his 30th point from beyond the arc and also set a new Duke program record for 3-pointers made in the NCAA Tournament. Proctor made his fourth 3-pointer of the night and Roach drilled his first 3-pointer on Duke’s next possession, putting Duke up 27, 74–46, with just under 10 minutes remaining.
• sean stewart Slammed two alleyway dunk houses and TJ Power Made a corner 3-pointer, giving Duke a 90–53 lead heading into the final media timeout, as Duke closed out the 93–55 victory.

notes

• With a win over James Madison in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, Duke reached its 29th Sweet 16 and first seeding under a second-year head coach. John Scheyer,
• In the last 25 NCAA tournaments, Duke has advanced to the Sweet 16 in 19 of them.
• The Blue Devils made a season-high 14 3-pointers on 28 attempts, missing at least half of their shots from long range for the sixth time this season.
• Duke’s 93 points matched the most points by the Blue Devils in the NCAA Tournament since a 93–85 win in the first round over UNC-Wilmington on March 17, 2016.
• The 93 points against JMU are the third-most scored by Duke this season, and the most since the Blue Devils beat Queens 106-69 on Dec. 30, 2023. This season’s game.
• The Blue Devils’ 38-point victory is the largest margin of victory in an NCAA Tournament second-round contest since a 97–56 victory over Tulsa on March 14, 1999.
• Duke’s defense held JMU to 55 points, which was Duke’s season-low and 29.0 points less than its season average of 84.0. The Blue Devils have held 29 of their 34 opponents below their respective scoring averages.
• The Blue Devils distributed 22 assists on 33 field goals, registering more than 20 assists for the sixth time in the 2023-24 campaign.
• Duke turned the ball over only six times compared to JMU’s 14 miscues, resulting in a 24–4 Blue Devils advantage in points-off turnovers.
• The Blue Devils’ disruptive defense produced a season-best 12 steals.
• The Blue Devils have gone 121–40 (.752) all-time in the NCAA Tournament, the best winning percentage by a team playing a minimum of 20 games in tournament history.
• Jared McCain Made eight 3-pointers, including his first six in the opening 20 minutes, setting a new Duke record for 3-pointers in the NCAA Tournament, bettering the standard of seven triples by Quinn Cook against Mercer on March 21, 2014.
• McCain became the second Duke freshman to score 30 or more points in an NCAA Tournament game. Zion Williamson set the program’s NCAA Tournament freshman scoring record with 32 points against UCF on March 22, 2019.
• McCain’s 22 first-half points are the most by any player so far in the 2024 NCAA Tournament.
• McCain tied the Duke freshman record for 3-pointers, which he set at Florida State earlier this season.
• McCain did not commit any turnovers, making him the first freshman to score at least 30 points without any turnovers since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985.
• tyreese proctor Added four 3-pointers of his own en route to a total of 18 points.
• Duke is now 13–1 when Proctor makes at least three from beyond the arc.
• jeremy roach Scored 15 points on 5-of-8 shooting, also dished out a team-high six assists and committed zero turnovers.
• kyle filipowski Also scored in double figures, finishing with 14 points – his third game in double figures in the last four contests, while adding five rebounds, four assists, two steals and a blocked shot.
• mark mitchell Collected five rebounds, four assists and a team-best three steals.
• Ryan Young And sean stewart Duke came off the bench to grab a team-high six rebounds.

Citation

• “Really proud of these guys and proud of our team. James Madison, you’re playing a team that has lost three times all year and their performance against Wisconsin was really impressive. And I don’t Don’t know if we expected it or not, but I just thought our guys came in with such good competition and they were obviously ready to play. Not just ready to play. You’ve got to compete in these games. Gotta be prepared, and I thought everybody on the field had that. It helps when you’ve got a guy like you Jared McCain, He broke the Duke record for threes in the NCAA Tournament today. We have some very good shooters here, so to break that record with eight, I’m sure he’s angry with me for taking him out early. He’s going to be angry at me. He wanted to stay there more. But he obviously had a great way about him.” – Head Coach John Scheyer
• “It’s the best feeling in the world when you know the work you’ve done is showing on the court, especially in a big game like this,
  The Sweet 16. For these types of games, you just want to win and I want to do everything I can to win, and tonight if it’s making shots, making 3s, whatever, I’m grateful for the opportunity to go to the Sweet 16″ – Freshman Guard Jared McCain

next

• No. 4-seed Duke (26-8) advances to the NCAA Tournament South Regional Semifinals to face No. 1-seed Houston (32-4) on Friday, March 29 in Dallas, Texas. The contest will begin after Game 1, which will begin at 7:09 p.m. ET and air on CBS.

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