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Austin Rivers scored a career-high 29 points (9-16 FG, 6-10 3pt) including a game-winning, buzzer-beating 3pt field goal to cap one of the most memorable Duke/UNC games of all-time. Seth Curry and Ryan Kelly added 15 points in the victory.
Duke Data
22 — Wins by Duke in the past 32 games against UNC, including five of six
0 — Seconds in the second half in which Duke led… Austin’s buzzer-beater dropped through as time expired to give Duke its only lead of the first half.
1 — Duke/UNC games that have ended on a buzzer-beater (this game was the first)
14 — 3pt FG’s by Duke in the game (14-36 3pt), compared to 1 for UNC (1-6 3pt)
Coach K’s Comments
“It’s a great basketball game. North Carolina, I still think, is the best team in our league. They’re so big on the boards. Zeller in the first half was magnificent, and then Barnes, they have guys who can try to take the game over that they go to. Zeller’s first half and Barnes’s second half were tough to overcome. We hung in there, we kept fighting. We could not hit a shot at the start of the second half, or even the first 10 minutes of the second half. I thought we were getting decent shots. We tried to tell our guys not to get down about missing. I thought initially at the start of the second half, when we missed like that, a couple layups, they scored right away because we were still thinking about the missed layups.”
Locker Room Reaction
“I saw it on target, and your heart drops for just a second. Because you don’t know. It was the slowest shot I’ve ever seen. When it went through the hoop and I saw the buzzer ring … it was the best feeling of my life. It was amazing… This is a huge win for us, because this is a momentum thing. Winning a game like this could provide us with something to go on. It’s amazing how things can turn. That’s why you never give up.”
Austin Rivers
“From the beginning, we believed we could win this basketball game. Down to the last few seconds, we believed.”
Ryan Kelly
Around the Web
Box score — Stat recap
AP recap — Rivers Hit Buzzer-Beater
Notes — Team and player updates
Rivers may have changed course of season
Notes
*Next up: Duke plays Maryland in Cameron at 4 PM on Saturday (ESPN).
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