WASHINGTON, D.C. – No. 11 Duke dropped its ACC Event quarterfinal matchup, 74-69, to NC State on Thursday evening. Kyle Filipowski scored 28 factors and grabbed 14 rebounds to tempo the Blue Devils at Capital One Enviornment in Washington, D.C.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Protection was the theme early, with neither crew scoring via the primary three minutes of motion. Jared McCain bought the primary factors on the board on the 16:37 mark, changing twice from the charity stripe.
• NC State used a 6-of-7 capturing stretch to take an early lead, 14-8, on the under-12 timeout. A dunk by Mark Mitchell snapped a six-point run by the Wolfpack and drew Duke inside 5, 15-10. The groups traded 3-pointers, with Ty rese Proctor connecting on Duke’s finish of the ground, and Duke trailed by simply two, 24-22, with 6:50 remaining within the first half.
• A driving layup by Kyle Filipowski, adopted by a steal and layup from the sophomore, put Duke within the lead, 26-24, out of the break. A Mitchell dunk gave the Blue Devils their largest lead of the evening, 28-24, however NC State responded with 5 fast factors, triggering a Duke timeout with 4:10 on the first-half clock.
• NC State emerged from the locker room with six unanswered factors, resulting in an early Duke timeout with 17:07 on the timer. After happening by 9, 48-39, the Blue Devils surged again with a 7-2 run, capped by back-to-back buckets from Filipowski.
• The Wolfpack maintained a lead that ebbed between 5 and 10 factors all through a four-minute stretch, with a Filipowski three-point play pulling Duke inside 5, 67-62, out of the ultimate media timeout. A Filipowski layup with 17 seconds left gave him 28 whole factors and narrowed the margin to simply two, however Duke fell simply in need of reclaiming the lead en path to the 74-69 last rating.

NOTES

• Duke’s protection held NC State to 74 factors, 2.3 under its season common of 76.3. The Blue Devils have held 27 of their 32 opponents to under their respective scoring common.
• NC State’s 18 second-chance factors (on 9 offensive rebounds) are probably the most by a Duke opponent this season.
• Thursday marked the primary time the Blue Devils scored fewer than 70 factors previously 17 video games (67-59 win at Notre Dame on Jan. 6).
• With the loss, Duke strikes to 17-10 all-time versus NC State within the ACC Event, ending the Blue Devils’ three-game win streak towards the Wolfpack within the convention postseason.
• Duke’s report within the ACC Event quarterfinals is now 45-19, after struggling its first quarterfinals setback since 2013, additionally as a No. 2 seed.
• The Blue Devils are actually 4-2 all-time in ACC Event video games performed in Washington, D.C.
• Kyle Filipowski scored a game-high 28 factors on 13-of-20 capturing, whereas additionally accumulating team-highs of 14 rebounds and three steals. Filipowski tallied back-to-back 20-point video games for the fourth time this season and first time since scoring 26 at Pittsburgh (Jan. 9) and 30 versus Georgia Tech (Jan. 13).
• Filipowski logged his seventh 20-10 recreation of the season and eleventh of his profession, together with the ninth double-double of his sophomore marketing campaign and twenty fifth of his profession.
• Mark Mitchell reached double-figures with 18 factors on 8-of-13 capturing, together with 2-of-2 from 3-point vary, whereas additionally securing eight rebounds.
• Tyrese Proctor rounded out Duke’s double-digit scoring with 10 factors, his fourth straight recreation with at the least 10 factors and seventh in his final eight appearances.
• Proctor, who additionally tallied seven boards and a team-high 5 assists with no turnover, performed all 40 minutes for the third consecutive contest.

QUOTES

• “It is a disappointing loss for us. We needed to make a run at this factor. Coming off of Saturday, we have been ready to spend so much of time on ourselves for the primary time. That did not translate totally, clearly. NC State is enjoying the very best basketball they’ve performed most likely, and also you give them credit score. They’re gifted. Once you’re enjoying within the postseason, groups do not need to go away. You need to make them go away. General, look, I can undergo the main points of the sport. I believe for us, although, it is in regards to the aggressive fireplace it is advisable have within the postseason. I instructed these guys, one, I believe each these guys (Kyle Filipowski and Mark Mitchell) have been big-time rivals right this moment. They nearly willed us to win the sport. They have been enjoying a whole lot of minutes. Mixed, they’ve 46 (factors) and 22 (rebounds). However I simply thought they’d the desire to win, which is what you want. However we did not have that collectively, total. For us, now we have to go get again to it and work. The largest postseason is forward of us, and we will be within the event. We’re enthusiastic about that. I do not know the place we will go, what seed we will be. However my factor is all about preparing and targeted for that.” – Duke head coach Jon Scheyer
• “For me, it is much more of a wake-up name as a result of we may have simply had extra one recreation left to the season now. You could have excessive expectations simply with profitable the ACC and issues like that, however you have to actually see the fact of it and see that each crew is admittedly preventing for his or her lives. We simply must need it greater than some other crew that we play towards.” – sophomore middle Kyle Filipowski
• “Clearly it hurts to lose a recreation like this, however I believe we have simply bought to make use of it as motivation and simply return to the drafting board. We’ll have a while to actually work on some issues, look ourselves within the mirror and see what we will do higher; and hopefully subsequent week, we will begin our run within the event.” – sophomore ahead Mark Mitchell

UP NEXT

• No. 11 Duke (24-8) turns its consideration to the NCAA Event, with seedings and matchups introduced on Choice Sunday – March 17 – on CBS, beginning at 6 p.m.

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