{"id":449969,"date":"2025-12-03T05:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/449969\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T05:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:57:17","slug":"blue-devils-florida-takedown-sparks-wild-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/449969\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Devils&#8217; Florida takedown sparks wild reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duke escaped by the skin of its teeth on Tuesday after beating Florida, 67-66, at Cameron Indoor Stadium in the ACC-SEC Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah Evans was the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/ncaa-basketball\/clutchpoints-bracketology-predicting-the-2026-ncaa-tournament-field-after-feast-week\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hero for the fourth-ranked Blue Devils<\/a>, as he drained the game-winning three-pointer with 20 seconds left. It was his lone three-pointer in eight attempts.<\/p>\n<p>The 15th-ranked Gators had multiple chances to steal the win, but consecutive turnovers doomed them.<\/p>\n<p>Duke remained spotless at 9-0, including 5-0 at home, while Florida fell to 5-3.<\/p>\n<p>Fans couldn&#8217;t help but react to the nail-biting affair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow, what a game by both teams. Florida played hard. Never was more than a few steps from a win but Duke wasn&#8217;t going to let that happen,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Dukepatriot50\/status\/1996053311347421448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said<\/a> @Dukepatriot50.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida was TRASH in the first half, but somehow was still one missed goaltend call away from winning,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/\/status\/1996053911095177415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">claimed<\/a> @JohnnyAnde2883.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat Duke vs. Florida game was an entertaining one. Tough loss for the Gators,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jgrov\/status\/1996052774040056009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">added<\/a> @Jgrov.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuke had Florida against the ropes and let them back in the game. Hence, me saying should\u2019ve been a double-digit win,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jagjustaguy111\/status\/1996055736955404434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote<\/a> @jagjustaguy111.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuke and Florida 100% lived up to the billing. That was some HIGH-LEVEL basketball played,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Rhymetime05\/status\/1996052542581575890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">posted<\/a> @Rhymetime05.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat phantom flagrant on Florida won Duke the game, as usual,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jeremy_Ba11\/status\/1996057156932518231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">commented<\/a> @Jeremy_Ba11.<\/p>\n<p>There were scary moments for the Blue Devils, as they allowed the Gators to climb back from a 15-point deficit. But they did enough in the closing seconds, especially on the defensive end, to salvage the one-point win.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/ncaa-basketball\/duke-basketball-news-cameron-boozer-incredible-mindset-scratching-surface\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Boozer led Duke once again<\/a> with a game-high 29 points and six rebounds. Evans added 13 points and five blocks, while Patrick Ngongba II chipped in 11 points, five rebounds, five assists, and five blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duke escaped by the skin of its teeth on Tuesday after beating Florida, 67-66, at Cameron Indoor Stadium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,699,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-449969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-duke-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115654101852692335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}