CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) Freshman star Cooper Flagg had 17 points and 14 rebounds, notching his seventh double-double of the season before halftime, as No. 3 Duke cruised past Virginia 80-62 on Monday night.
The Blue Devils (23-3, 15-1 ACC), who also got 17 points from Kon Knueppel, have won three straight since their lone conference loss Feb. 8 at No. 18 Clemson.
Andrew Rohde had 15 points, five rebounds and five assists for the Cavaliers (13-13, 6-9).
Duke forward Maliq Brown, who grew up in Virginia about an hour from Charlottesville, sustained an apparent left shoulder injury with 1:21 left in the first half. He immediately headed to the locker room and did not return.
Duke: In a business-like win, the Blue Devils shot 9 for 23 from 3-point range and outrebounded the Cavaliers 41-21 to make sure they never threatened. Duke opened the second half with an 8-0 run to help put this one away.
Virginia: The Cavaliers had won three straight and four of five, pointing toward a late-season surge. But they didn’t have the athletes on defense to match up with Duke, which shot 53%. Dai Dai Ames scored 15 points, reaching double figures for the fifth consecutive game.
Rohde rifled a perfect pass to a cutting Taine Murray for what appeared destined to be a back-door layup for the Cavaliers. Instead, Flagg swatted the shot away. Duke got a 3-pointer from Tyrese Proctor at the other end, part of a 16-2 run that put the Blue Devils ahead 27-14 with 8:19 left in the first half.
One of the ACC’s best rivalries over the past decade was no contest on this night. From 2012-23, no Virginia-Duke game had a margin of victory greater than 10 points. That run ended last year at Duke when the Blue Devils rolled 73-48.
Duke faces Illinois in a nonconference matchup at Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday night, while Virginia plays at North Carolina.
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| TOP SCORERS | |||||
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7
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K. Knueppel G | 17PTS | 7REB | 1AST | |
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7
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D. Ames G | 15PTS | 1REB | 3AST | |
| STARTERS | PTS | REB | AST | PF |
| C. Flagg | 17 | 14 | 2 | 3 |
| K. Knueppel | 17 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| S. James | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| T. Proctor | 7 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| K. Maluach | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| BENCH | PTS | REB | AST | PF |
| I. Evans | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| P. Ngongba II | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| M. Brown | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| C. Foster | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| D. Harris | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| M. Gillis | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| S. Hubbard | – | – | – | – |
| S. Borden | – | – | – | – |
| N. Begovich | – | – | – | – |
| C. Sheffield | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 80 | 37 | 16 | 15 |
| STARTERS | PTS | REB | AST | PF |
| A. Rohde | 15 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| D. Ames | 15 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| I. McKneely | 14 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| B. Buchanan | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Cofie | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| BENCH | PTS | REB | AST | PF |
| E. Saunders | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| A. Robinson | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| I. Sharma | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| T. Murray | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T. Power | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| E. Bennett | – | – | – | – |
| D. Roberts | – | – | – | – |
| B. Walker | – | – | – | – |
| M. Rouse | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 62 | 19 | 13 | 8 |