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Maliq Brown shoots for Duke in the Blue Devils\u2019 second round win over TCU.<\/p>\n
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) \u2014 Cameron Boozer shook off a quiet first half to finish with 19 points and No. 1 overall seed Duke shot 61.5% after halftime Saturday to pull away from TCU for an 81-58 win in a physical second-round game\u00a0at the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n
The freshman voted a unanimous first-team Associated Press All-American earlier this week had just two points and missed his only shot in the first half.<\/p>\n
But he scored three times during the 11-0 second-half burst \u2014 twice on high-low feeds from fellow big Patrick Ngongba II in his return to the lineup \u2014 as Duke (34-2) finally shook free of the ninth-seeded Horned Frogs (23-12).<\/p>\n
That 11-0 run was the capper on a 26-6 surge that spanned nearly nine minutes, with TCU missing 15 of 17 shots after Jayden Pierre\u2019s layup tied it at 44-all with 13:56 left.<\/p>\n
The Blue Devils opened the tournament with an uncharacteristically shaky performance that\u00a0had them flirting with only the third 16-versus-1 upset against Siena.\u00a0This time, they trailed only briefly in the second half on the way to the Sweet 16 for the third straight season under Jon Scheyer, earning a trip to the nation\u2019s capital to face the St. John\u2019s-Kansas winner Friday.<\/p>\n
Micah Robinson scored 18 points for TCU, which beat eighth-seeded Ohio State on Xavier Edmonds\u2019 basket in the final seconds of the first round.<\/p>\n
But the Horned Frogs couldn\u2019t sustain a quality first 25 minutes against the Blue Devils, shooting just 10 for 38 after halftime and 33.3% for the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maliq Brown shoots for Duke in the Blue Devils\u2019 second round win over TCU. GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,6,12,84972,1138],"class_list":["post-672167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-draft","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-ncaa-tournament-2026","tag-second-round"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116271381372150626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672167","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=672167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}