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Notes: Duke 75, Virginia Tech 65
1/29/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
With A Win Tonight...
- Improved to 22-0 to start the season, continuing its school record for best season-opening start in Duke history.
- Improve to 43-4 while being ranked No. 1.
- Duke (22-0, 7-0) and North Carolina (23-0, 7-0) remain as the only undefeated teams in the nation and in ACC action.
- Won its 69th straight contest at home against an unranked opponent.
- Picked up its 46th out of last 49th victory at home against an ACC opponent.
- Won its seventh in a row against Virginia Tech and improved the series to 9-2 in favor of the Blue Devils.
- Duke improved to 188-26 in Cameron Indoor Stadium under the direction of Gail Goestenkors.
Notes...
- Duke led at the half, 39-33, and has not trailed at the end of the first stanza this season.
- The Blue Devils returned home to Cameron Indoor Stadium for the first time since its Jan. 13 contest against top-ranked Maryland. Duke had played three straight road contests.
- Faced its largest deficit of the season in the first half as the Blue Devils were down 26-15 at the 8:10 mark. The previous deficit was seven points to Texas on Dec. 10, 2006.
- Virginia Tech's 33 points in the first half was the most points scored by a Duke opponent in the first half this season.
- The Hokies shot 53.8 percent in the first half, which is the highest allowed by Duke in the first half this season.
- Duke had a 9-0 advantage in bench points in the first half and concluded the game with a 13-0 advantage.
- As a team, the Blue Devils wore pink shoelaces to show respect for N.C. State Head Coach Kay Yow, who has been battling cancer, and also as participation in the THINK PINK campaign which honors all battling cancer.
- The 49.0 field goal percentage by Virginia Tech was the highest allowed this season by Duke.
- Prior to the game, she was honored for becoming the Duke all-time assist leader (534) as she passed Hilary Howard (533). Howard presented her with a ball in the ceremony.
- Collected double-figure points for the seventh straight game and the 16th time this season.
- Finished with 15 points, five rebounds, two steals and two assists.
- Scored double-digits for the 19th time this season.
- Finished with 18 points, five steals, six rebounds and one assist in 35 minutes.
- With her 18 points, she now owns 326 points on the season which is 18 more than last year's 308 she scored in 35 games.
- Since hitting 6-of-9 three-pointers at Tennessee, she has hit 2-of-11.
- Came off the bench to score four points in three minutes of action in the first half to help guide the Blue Devils back from their largest deficit of the season. She finished with four points.
- Notched double-figure points for the 15th time this season.
- Collected her second double-double of the season with 17 points and 11 rebounds.
- Had five blocks on the night to give her 388 for her career. She remains in seventh place on the NCAA all-time blocks list.
- After playing only six minutes in the last game and not seeing action at Tennessee, came off the bench score six points, grab three rebounds and post one assist in 14 minutes.
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