Duke edges North Carolina 63-57 behind Roach, Lively

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) Jeremy Roach scored 20 factors, Dereck Full of life II had profession highs of eight blocks and 14 rebounds and Duke defeated North Carolina 63-57 on Saturday night time.

Kyle Filipowski added 14 factors and Tyrese Proctor 11 for the Blue Devils (17-6, 8-4 ACC), who received their third straight and beat the Tar Heels (15-8, 7-5) for the primary time in three conferences, together with in final 12 months’s Last 4 within the NCAA Match.

North Carolina’s Armando Bacot had 14 factors and 10 rebounds for his 63rd profession double-double, extending his personal program report, Leaky Black had 13 factors and 10 rebounds, Caleb Love added 12 factors and RJ Davis 11.

Roach scored eight of Duke’s closing 10 factors, together with the final 4 after Full of life’s tiebreaking dunk with 1:35 to go. North Carolina missed its final 5 photographs, together with a trio of 3-point tries within the closing minute.

The Blue Devils’ six-point successful margin matched their largest lead.

Neither workforce reached 40% capturing however Duke outscored North Carolina 20-2 off quick breaks and was 11 of 15 on the free-throw line to solely 2 of three for the Tar Heels.

The stat sheet was pretty even at halftime when Duke led 33-32 aside from one telling stat, a 16-0 benefit for the Blue Devils on fast-break factors as they scored repeatedly off transition.

A 14-5 run erased a seven-point North Carolina lead – the Tar Heels’ largest – and put Duke in entrance 26-24 with slightly below 4 minutes left within the half. A Proctor 3-pointer broke the fourth tie earlier than Bacot minimize it to the one-point margin on the break. Bacot had 12 factors within the first half. Roach had 10.

The sport matched two males who performed on this rivalry and at the moment are main the applications they performed for: first-year Duke coach Jon Scheyer and Hubert Davis, in his second 12 months for North Carolina.

The groups will meet once more of their regular-season finale at Chapel Hill on March 4. Duke performs at No. 23 Miami on Monday. North Carolina is at Wake Forest on Tuesday.

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