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Duke Defense Shines In 106-38 Rout of Charleston Southern
12/16/2002 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Dec 16, 2002
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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - There seems to be no stopping Duke's Alana Beard, whether the Blue Devils have the ball or not.
Beard had 24 points and six of top-ranked Duke's season-high 25 steals as the Blue Devils forced 37 turnovers in a 106-38 victory Monday night over Charleston Southern.
"If I see an opening I'm going to take it," Beard said. "That's just the way I play."
And when the other team has the ball?
"I felt like I had to step it up because I was on their point guard, and I just turned it up on the defensive end."
The Blue Devils (8-0) are off to their best start since going 9-0 two seasons ago, and have won 16 straight games at Cameron Indoor Stadium. They won their first 12 games in 1987-88, and went 8-0 the next season.
Duke (8-0) used defensive pressure and transition baskets to open the game with a 23-5 run, but slowed down before ending the first half up 46-25.
Charleston Southern (4-3) made just two baskets in its first 11 possessions.
Still, Duke coach Gail Goestenkors, wanted more.
"I wasn't real happy with the way we played in the first half," she said. "I thought we started out strong, but lost our focus.
"When we put our minds to it, we can be a very good team. But I think I am still learning about our substitution patterns. When we get a big lead, I tend to mass-substitute and we lose our focus."
In the second half, the Blue Devils shot 57.5 percent. Beard, who has now scored 20 or more points in six of her last eight games, made 10 of 11 shots.
Vickie Krapohl was 5-of-7 from 3-point range and added 15 points for Duke, which has topped the 100-point mark three times this season.
Duke also dominated on the boards, outrebounding the Lady Buccaneers 49-31.
Erin Jedilkowski led Charleston Southern with 9 points and six rebounds.
"It didn't come out the way we would have liked it to, but our girls played extremely hard," said Charleston Southern coach Stephanie Yelton. "For our girls to come and lay it all out there ... we're going to grow from that."
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