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Notes: Duke 102, Wake Forest 92
2/20/2005 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Feb. 20, 2005
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- J.J. Redick (career-high 38 points) scored in double figures for the 22nd time this season and the 77th game of his career ... Redick now has scored 20 or more points 17 times this year and 38 times in his career, and has three 30-point games in 2004-05 and five in his career ... His previous high this season was 33 points vs. Wake Forest on 2/2/05 and his previous career-best was 34 points vs. Virginia on 1/15/03 ... Redick's 38 points is the most by an individual in an ACC game this season ... He made his first six field goal attempts of the night, and finished nine-of-15 from the floor overall
- Redick matched his career single-game output with 14 free throws while establishing a new game best effort of 15 free throw attempts ... He also sank 14 foul shots vs. Clemson on 1/2/05 ... For the season, Redick is now 140-of-150 (.933) from the line and for his career is 385-of-411 (.937 -- NCAA record)
- Redick's 38 points is the most by a Duke player against Wake Forest in the Mike Krzyzewski Era, bettering Shane Battier's 34-point outing versus the Demon Deacons on 2/22/00 ... The 38-points matches the second-highest single-game total under Krzyzewski (Jason Williams vs. Kentucky on 12/18/01), trailing only Danny Ferry's school record of 58 points against Miami on 12/10/88
- Redick connected on six three-point field goals in 10 attempts to push his ACC-leading total to 89 ... His 89 three-pointers rank as the seventh best single-season total in Duke history ... Redick already owns the fifth and sixth places on the chart having hit 102 treys in 2004 and 95 in 2003 ... His 286 career three-point field goals rank ninth all-time on the ACC chart (Robert O'Kelley of Wake Forest is eighth with 288) ... Redick has now made five or more three-point buckets in nine games this season and 18 times in his career
- Redick entered Sunday's game leading the ACC in scoring (22.3 ppg) and is now averaging a league-best 23.0 point per game ... Redick pushed his season point total to 529 ... He also moved up two slots on Duke's career scoring chart into 20th place with 1,613 career points, passing Thomas Hill (1,594) and Jeff Capel (1,601) while Cherokee Parks sits in 19th place (1,643)
- In his first four games (2 in both 2003 & 2004) versus Wake Forest, Redick totaled 42 points (10.5 ppg) ... In two games this season against the Demon Deacons, he has scored 71 total points (33 & 38) for a 35.5 per game average
- Redick played all 40 minutes for the seventh time this season -- the fifth highest single-season total under Krzyzewski
- Shelden Williams dished out a career-high four assists on the night ... Williams also posted totals of 12 points, nine rebounds and four blocked shots in 39 minutes ... His four rejections increase his season total to an ACC-best 87 -- a total that marks the sixth highest single-season total in Duke history ... Williams now has 250 career blocks to rank third at Duke and 12th in ACC history
- Lee Melchionni came off the Duke bench to score 15 points while making five-of-six field goals (3-of-4 3FGs) and both of his free throw attempts ... It marks the first double figure scoring game since he scored 13 points at Wake Forest on 2/2/05
- Daniel Ewing, not in the Blue Devil starting lineup for the first time this year, contributed 13 points in 28 minutes
- Patrick Davidson and Patrick Johnson both started for the first time in their respective careeers
- Duke's shooting from the floor against Wake Forest was a remarkable 59.3 percent overall and 54.5 percent from three-point range
- Duke has now won three straight games against ranked opponents (No. 25 Georgia Tech on 2/5, No. 2 North Carolina on 2/9 and No. 5 Wake Forest on 2/20)
- Duke improves to 13-1 at home on the season, and has now won at least 13 home games in each of the past nine seasons
- Duke has now won 107 of its last 125 ACC regular season games
- Duke improves to 49-17 as the number seven ranked team in the nation (AP poll) and 9-17 against the number five ranked team in the country
- Duke is now 674-142 in Cameron Indoor Stadium including a 320-48 record under Krzyzewski at home
- Duke has now won 110 of its last 116 games in Cameron Indoor Stadium
- Duke has now won 1,756 all-time games
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