Notes: Duke 64, North Carolina 53

With A Win Tonight...

Improved to 25-0, 10-0 in the ACC and continued its best start in school and ACC history.
Won its 30th out of 31st true road contest.
Improved the series record to 29-41 in favor North Carolina and broke a five-game losing streak to the Tar Heels.
Won its eighth straight contest against a ranked opponent this season and is now 8-0 on the season against ranked foes.
Notched its 10th straight 10-win ACC season.
Improved to 46-4 record while being ranked No. 1.

Notes...

Duke led at the half, 34-29, and has not trailed at the end of the first stanza this season.
Carlyle Cup ? North Carolina now leads 7.5-5.5 after Duke picked up one point with the win.
A total of 14 fouls, which was a season high, were called in the first half and six players had two or more fouls.
Duke held UNC to 27.3 percent shooting, which was the 12th time this season the Blue Devils have held an opponent to under 30 percent shooting. UNC's field goal shooting was a season low.
The Blue Devils outrebounded the ACC-leading rebounding team, UNC, 53-49.
Finished with 26 total fouls, also a season high, but did not have a single player foul out.
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.
Held the reigning ACC Player of the Year, Ivory Latta, to 3-of-20 shooting and 0-of-11 from downtown for the game.
The 53 points by UNC was the fewest since March 8, 2004 when Duke held the Tar Heels to 47 points as the Blue Devils won the ACC Championship, 63-47.

Posted double-figure scoring for the 18th time this season and ninth out of the last 10 games.
Posted a season-high nine rebounds
With seven assists on the night, moved into ninth place on the ACC career assists chart with 553, passing N.C. State's Robyn Mayo (547).
Finished the contest with 16 points, nine rebounds and seven assists, while committing only two turnovers in 36 minutes.

With her 14 rebounds, moved into a tie for seventh place on Duke's all-time rebounding list with 737.
Moved into sixth place on the NCAA all-time blocked shots list with 402.
Became only the sixth player in NCAA history to reach the 400-block mark.
Had a season-high four steals.
Did not score in the first half as she was 0-of-5 shooting but had eight rebounds, three blocks, two steals and two assists in 14 minutes.
Registered double-figure rebounds for the fifth time this season and three out of the last four contests as she finished with 14.
Her 14 rebounds tied a career high.

Posted double-figure scoring for the third straight game and fifth out of the last six contests. Had a total of 12 double-digit games this season.
Had 17 points in the first half, which was one shy of tying a season high.
Finished the game with 17 points, four rebounds and two assists.