National Basketball Association
Duke 74, Temple 54
When: 9:30 PM ET, Friday, November 21, 2014
Where: Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York
Officials:
# D.J. Carstensen, # Paul Faia, # John Floyd
Attendance:
10135
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No. 3 Duke 74, Temple 54: Quinn Cook scored 17 points and freshman Jahlil Okafor overcame a slow start to add 16 points, lifting the Blue Devils in the semifinals of the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Duke (4-0) advances to face Stanford in the tournament final Saturday after shooting only 39.1 percent from the field. Okafor missed 10 of his 13 first-half shots but finished 7-for-20 with eight rebounds – seven offensive – while fellow freshman Justise Winslow added 15 points and Cook hit three 3-pointers.
The Owls (2-1) struggled offensively, hitting only 1-of-12 3-point attempts and shooting 37.3 percent overall while committing 17 turnovers. Will Cummings scored 18 points and Josh Brown added 11 points off the bench for Temple, which plays UNLV in Saturday’s consolation contest.
Cook scored five points in the opening four minutes as Duke built a 9-2 lead and extended its advantage to 20-8 on Amile Jefferson’s three-point play midway through the first half. Temple hit only 3-of-14 shots from the field in the opening 11 minutes and could not get any closer than eight after that as the Blue Devils led 36-26 at halftime.
Two Cook 3-pointers bookended a 13-5 spurt early in the second half before Okafor scored on two baskets in the post and Winslow knocked down a 3-pointer to push Duke’s lead to 57-35 with 10:33 to play. Back-to-back baskets from Cummings pulled the Owls within 62-48 with 5:31 to play, but Okafor blocked a shot to set up Cook’s jumper and two Winslow free throws with four minutes left extended the lead to 66-48.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Okafor made 25-of-30 shots from the field in the first two games but missed four of his first five attempts. … Cummings, who shot 30.8 percent from 3-point range last season, went 0-for-3 on Friday and is 1-for-13 through three games. … Saturday’s contest will match Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski against Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins, who starred for Krzyzewski at Duke in the mid-1980s and later spent 11 seasons as a Duke assistant.
Top Game Performances
| Duke |
|
Temple |
|
Quinn Cook 17 |
Scoring |
Will Cummings 18 |
|
Tyus Jones 7 |
Assists |
Will Cummings 2 |
|
Amile Jefferson 8 |
Rebounds |
Devontae Watson 9 |
|
Justise Winslow 6 |
Free Throws Made |
Will Cummings 4 |
|
Tyus Jones 3 |
Steals |
Will Cummings 3 |
|
Jahlil Okafor 2 |
Blocks |
Quenton DeCosey 3 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
| Duke
|
74 |
39.1 |
7-23 |
17-26 |
14 |
37 |
5 |
9 |
9 |
| Temple
|
54 |
37.3 |
1-12 |
9-13 |
6 |
34 |
6 |
5 |
17 |
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