Duke’s great D sends Blue Devils to their 18th Final Four with an 85-65 victory over Alabama
The flow of Duke of long, high highs ready for the NBA suffocated Alabama and paper on the hard evening of Cooper Flagg shooting to lift the Blue Devils to the 18th program Final Four With an 85-65 victory on Saturday evening in the final of the east region of the NCAA tournament.
Flagg made only 6 of 16 shots, including a brick that was stuck in the edge of the edge, but still finished with 16 points. Kon Knueppel, another potential choice of the lottery, guided the Blue Devils with 21 points.
But the most important statistics: the offense leader of the Alabama nation, one that came out of a record night of 3 in Sweet 16, shot 8 by 32 from behind the arch, 35.4% in total and was unable to break 70 only for the second time in this season.
Sign SearsThat came short of a tournament record with 10 3S two nights before, closed with one and only six points against the Blue Devils (35-3), which won their consecutive 15th.
To the Final Four in San AntonioDuke with the highest seed will play the winner of Sunday’s match between Houston and Tennessee. His victory has erased any possibility of a show from the All-Southeastern conference at the Final Four, but with the number 1 of Florida who won previously, he kept the perspective of all four seeds that play on the biggest stage of sport only for the second time.
Khaman Maluach scored 14 points on a shot of 6 out of 7 and Duke shot 53.6% despite the difficult night of the best player.
Flagg was certainly not bad in this. He had nine rebounds, three assists and a mega block that sent the Mouhammed diibate float that flew to the press.
But in a game where both teams focused on removing the best player of the other, it was Duke who did it more effectively, turning off Sears, blocking the perimeter and never leaving him breath.
The first bucket of any type of the fifth year of any type came to about 18 minutes and the shot was a 16 feet from the EXCLA-Il Midrange Shot-type elbow avoided the team of Dunkers of Nate Oats and 3-point specialists.
The first 3 of Sears arrived with 16:19 left in the game. His final line: 2 for 12 from the floor, 1 by 5 of 3. He also had six assists. Labaron Philon led the second seed Crimson Tide (28-9) with 16 points. Not a single Alabama player has made more shots than he didn’t miss.
Duke Jon Scheyer coach, bringing the Final Four program for the first time from the first season of his predecessor Mike Krzyzewski in 2022, has up to six NBA Prospects in his list.
They all got in attack – Tyrese Proctor had 17 points – and even Moreso in defense, in which Alabama did not look like anything as the team that established the tournaments records for the brands and attempts going to 25 by 51 from 3 against Byu.
Final Four Firsts
The only other Four four to present all the seeds n. 1 was in 2008 when they made Kansas, Memphis, Ucla and North Carolina. The site: San Antonio.
Another title for the tide -wheelchair team
It was not a totally lost night for Tide fans. Just before Tipoff, the team of rims for women’s wheelchairs of Alabama beat Texas-Arlington 67-52 for its fifth consecutive national championship.
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