Played 10 which is great. Need fewer poor passes. Guys who shot low percentage could use Jayce McCain shoot around coaching. Pat has been great Khaman very good. Kon and Coop should play better. Proctor keep it going and Foster was good. Hopefully Duke will have an A game against Baylor. Got to get those rebounds and pay attention to Edgecombe Orchier in the paint
MBB: Duke 93, MSM 49, Postgame Thread
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Duke 93, Mount St. Mary's 49 (recap, box score, highlights, presser)
No. 1-seed Duke began the 2025 NCAA Tournament with a 93-49 victory over Mount St. Mary's on Friday, March 21, at the Lenovo Center. Tyrese Proctor led the Blue Devils (32-3) with 19 points, while three others finished in double-figures - Cooper Flagg (14), Caleb Foster (12) and Khaman Maluach (11).
Patrick Ngongba II grabbed a team-high eight rebounds, setting a new career high, while Flagg finished one board behind his teammate, with seven caroms. As a team, Duke dished 21 assists, led by Proctor's five, while only committing two turnovers, to finish the game with a 10.5 assist-turnover ratio - the best in program history.
On defense, the Blue Devils limited the Mountaineers to just 19-of-63 (.302) shooting, after Mount St. Mary's entered the contest averaging 44.6 percent from the field.
March Madness supplies the highlights...
A Cooper Flagg reel...
The Duke portion of the press conference with Jon Scheyer, Tyrese Proctor, and Cooper Flagg... (GoDuke has the NCAA transcript.)
Coach Scheyer: "I thought it was a workmanlike performance by our team. Any time you only have two turnovers in a game, that's pretty good. I just thought that these guys were incredibly mature without necessarily even playing in the NCAA Tournament, besides Tyrese [Proctor] and Mason [Gillis]. Proud of the performance. We have to move on very quickly, but really good to get our feet wet and understand what the tournament is all about."
"Obviously I love Jeremy [Roach]. I've been through -- I coached him for four years, two as an assistant, two as a head coach, and he's given Duke everything he has. I know Jeremy, and he knows me and us. We're not going to make this [game] about that. You're playing the NCAA Tournament. This should be about Duke and Baylor. But at the end of the day, obviously Jeremy has been an important guy for our program with what he's done, and he's done a really good job this year. But this game for us on Sunday is going to be about what we have to do to beat Baylor, and I'm sure it's the same for Jeremy and their team, in their minds."
And the Mount St. Mary's portion, with head coach Donny Lind, Dola Adebayo, Arlandus Keyes, and the only player whose name contains 2 tournament teams, Xavier Lipscomb. (Again, GoDuke has the NCAA transcript.)
Coach Lind: "Duke is a really good basketball team. There's a reason why they're one of the top seeds in this tournament, and they showed that for most of the game today. I thought our guys fought unbelievably. They played with heart and determination and great effort until there were zeros on the clock, and I'm incredibly proud of that. It's part of the culture we're trying to build here is a relentless and resilient group, and I think they showed that today. I'm also incredibly proud of the way they played for each other, the love that they obviously have for each other. You could see on the court, it was evident. That's one of the things that I'll always -- a memory that I'll always be proud of with this group."
Finally, The Devils Den has locker room interviews with Neal Begovich, Cooper Flagg, Darren Harris, Sion James, Patrick Ngongba, and Tyrese Proctor. You already know which one I'm embedding. (His hair is perfect!)
No. 1-seed Duke began the 2025 NCAA Tournament with a 93-49 victory over Mount St. Mary's on Friday, March 21, at the Lenovo Center. Tyrese Proctor led the Blue Devils (32-3) with 19 points, while three others finished in double-figures - Cooper Flagg (14), Caleb Foster (12) and Khaman Maluach (11).
Patrick Ngongba II grabbed a team-high eight rebounds, setting a new career high, while Flagg finished one board behind his teammate, with seven caroms. As a team, Duke dished 21 assists, led by Proctor's five, while only committing two turnovers, to finish the game with a 10.5 assist-turnover ratio - the best in program history.
On defense, the Blue Devils limited the Mountaineers to just 19-of-63 (.302) shooting, after Mount St. Mary's entered the contest averaging 44.6 percent from the field.
March Madness supplies the highlights...
A Cooper Flagg reel...
The Duke portion of the press conference with Jon Scheyer, Tyrese Proctor, and Cooper Flagg... (GoDuke has the NCAA transcript.)
Coach Scheyer: "I thought it was a workmanlike performance by our team. Any time you only have two turnovers in a game, that's pretty good. I just thought that these guys were incredibly mature without necessarily even playing in the NCAA Tournament, besides Tyrese [Proctor] and Mason [Gillis]. Proud of the performance. We have to move on very quickly, but really good to get our feet wet and understand what the tournament is all about."
"Obviously I love Jeremy [Roach]. I've been through -- I coached him for four years, two as an assistant, two as a head coach, and he's given Duke everything he has. I know Jeremy, and he knows me and us. We're not going to make this [game] about that. You're playing the NCAA Tournament. This should be about Duke and Baylor. But at the end of the day, obviously Jeremy has been an important guy for our program with what he's done, and he's done a really good job this year. But this game for us on Sunday is going to be about what we have to do to beat Baylor, and I'm sure it's the same for Jeremy and their team, in their minds."
And the Mount St. Mary's portion, with head coach Donny Lind, Dola Adebayo, Arlandus Keyes, and the only player whose name contains 2 tournament teams, Xavier Lipscomb. (Again, GoDuke has the NCAA transcript.)
Coach Lind: "Duke is a really good basketball team. There's a reason why they're one of the top seeds in this tournament, and they showed that for most of the game today. I thought our guys fought unbelievably. They played with heart and determination and great effort until there were zeros on the clock, and I'm incredibly proud of that. It's part of the culture we're trying to build here is a relentless and resilient group, and I think they showed that today. I'm also incredibly proud of the way they played for each other, the love that they obviously have for each other. You could see on the court, it was evident. That's one of the things that I'll always -- a memory that I'll always be proud of with this group."
Finally, The Devils Den has locker room interviews with Neal Begovich, Cooper Flagg, Darren Harris, Sion James, Patrick Ngongba, and Tyrese Proctor. You already know which one I'm embedding. (His hair is perfect!)
tteettimes
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What’s game time Sunday vs Baylor??
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terrih
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There are probably other places here’s one I know you can at least watch a condensed version of the game. If you have the MM Live app and go to the scores tab and click on the Duke game right below the score at the top on that page there’s a black button to click on condensed game.
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MChambers
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So we’re better outside the ACC?
And by a whole lot of points too.
Spencer now second on the team at 22.0 points per 40 minutes (Flagg at 24.8).
that was a great interview. Begovich is a gem. So great that Duke can land guys like this.
mattyoung18
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The way it looks on Espn they have Duke vs Baylor at 240pm after Fla possibly vs Uconn.If that matchup happend I could see Duke playing the 2nd game in Raleigh.
No, you’re reading it wrong. Those numbers are per 100 possessions, but Duke only gets around 66 possessions per game (and Baylor only has around 65). So KenPom only has us as 11 point faves vs Baylor (and only had us around 30 point favorites vs MSM).
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I really hope that screenshot is wrong.
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Twitter so not sure
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Looks like 2:40 tip!