NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship First Round ­ No. 15 Troy / No. 2 Duke March 1
7, 2
017 Duke G
ame N
otes ● Duke won its 108th NCAA Tournament game Friday, third‐most in history. The Blue Devils o
wn t he t op w
inning p
ercentage ( .755, 1
08‐35) i n t ournament h
istory. ● Duke and Kansas both won Friday; the two programs are ed for most NCAA Tournament w
ins ( 43) o
f a ny p
rogram i n t he c ountry s ince 2
000. ● Friday’s win was the 91st in NCAA Tournament history for Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski, 20 m
ore t han t he n
ext c losest c oach ( Roy W
illiams). ● Duke has now won five straight in postseason play (4‐0 in ACC Tournament, 1‐0 in NCAA Tournament), a er d
ropping t hree o
f i ts l ast f our g ames t o e nd t he r egular s eason. ● Friday’s game was Duke’s fourth in Bon Secours Wellness Arena, its third in NCAA Tournament play (3‐0). Last season, the Blue Devils lost to Clemson when it used the Greenville a rena a s i ts h
ome c ourt. ● Duke’s 5
2‐point fi
rst h
alf w
as i ts 1
0th h
alf o
f t he s eason w
ith 5
0 o
r m
ore p
oints. ● Grayson Allen scored 21 points and moved into 34th place on Duke’s career scoring list (1,404). ● Allen’s point total was his highest since the North Carolina game in Cameron Indoor Stadium o
n F eb. 9
. ● Allen was 5‐9 from three Friday, the second me in the last three games he has made five f rom b
eyond t he a rc. ● Amile Jefferson blocked three shots Friday, passing Shavlik Randolph for eighth on the school’s a ll‐ me l ist ( 132). ● Jefferson played his 149th game as a Blue Devil, breaking the previous school record shared b
y C
hris an L ae ner ( 1989‐92) a nd K
yle S ingler ( 2008‐11). ● Ma Jones scored double figures for the first me since a game against Wake Forest on Feb. 1
8. J ones fi
nished w
ith 1
4 p
oints. ● Jayson Tatum produced a double‐double with 18 points and 12 rebounds. It was Tatum’s third o
f t he s eason. ● Tatum ed c areer h
ighs f or b
oth s teals ( 4) a nd b
locks ( 4) a gainst T roy. ● Tatum has made 117 free throws on the season. Only three freshmen in Duke history have m
ade m
ore. ● Luke Kennard now has 711 points on the season, the 17th‐best single season figure in Duke h
istory. ● Kennard extended his personal streak to 39 consecu ve games with at least one three‐point g oal, t he 1
0th‐longest s treak i n A
CC h
istory.