Durham, NC-Durham, Nekan (AP)-Kile Philipowski was in the initial lineup four days after retaining the knee injury when fans collapsed in court and on Wednesday night, the number 10 Duke defeated Louisville 84-59 to finish with nine points, 10 rebounds and six assistance.
Philipowski, a Presiden Associated Press All-American, was hurt in Wake Forest after a Saturday loss when he collided with a fan. The team managers and members of the coaching staff helped guide the sophomore standout away from the fans of the herd and away from the court.
“It was not very bad,” Philipowski said about making quick recovery. “A real difficult loss is coming, we had to find ourselves again.”
Jeremy Roach scored 19 points, Mark Mitchell joined 17 and won the sixth for the sixth matches as Blue Devils (22-6, 13-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) near Jred McCain. Duke is a game behind the Northern Carolina, the leading Northern Carolina of the conference with three regular-season games for both teams.
Coach John Sheer said that Blue Devils had the right mentality after a chaotic weekend game.
“Not to make excuses,” Scheyer said. “get back to work.”
Train White scored 15 points for Louisville (8-20, 3–13), which lost its fourth straight. Brandon Huntley-Hatfield and Ty-Low Johnson added every 11 points. Cardinals have lost 20 games for the second consecutive season.
Louisville coach Kenny Payne said, “You have to walk here with a cruelty with a fight.” “If you are not going to rebound then you cannot beat this team.”
Roach joined Duke’s three 3-pointers in the first two at an interval of 54 seconds of the first half, leading to a 26–13 lead to Blue Devils.
Duke led 36–23 in Haftime. Louisville was slowed down from 29% shooting from the ground.
Blue Devils committed 10 out of their 14 turnover in the first half, but had regular high-per cent shots and finished with 23 assistance, the team’s highest in ACC action in this season.
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Filipowski has never missed a game while playing in 64 competitions in its two college sessions. … Duke played without a freshman guard Kaleb foster, who was wearing a boot on his right leg. He played in all the previous 27 games, which starts 15 and an average was 7.7 points per game. The foster will be out for “some time”, Scheyer said. “We have to adjust without blackb. My heart breaks for him that he cannot play. ,
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Louisville: Cardinals hit the brake aggressively after opening February with their best offenses this season. It was not a winning recipe to make just 3 out of 17 attempts from the 3-point range, and the cardinals would be barely pressed to exclude the ACC basement.
Duke: Blue Devils was part of the college basketball conversation in recent times after the incident in the end of last week, which was not distracted by a very more debated court-storey issue. After three consecutive road games, Duke was not threatened whether a fugitive won. Blue Devils have won seven ACC games with 14 or more points.
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Louisville: Home against Syracuse on Saturday.
Duke: Home against Virginia on Saturday.
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