Filed under: Duke, Marquette, ACC
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - All the signs have been there that the No.1 Duke Blue Devils are good.It was just hard to gauge how good the defending national champions are this season with blowout victories against Princeton, Miami of Ohio and Colgate to start. Not exactly the who's who of college basketball.
But finally Monday night, the Blue Devils ran into a respectable Marquette team that was talented enough to challenge them during in the semi-final round of the CBE Classic. After breezing in their first three games, the Blue Devils found themselves tied with the Golden Eagles about midway through the second half.
First it was 53-53, then it was 55-55 and finally it was 57-57 before Duke woke up.
That is when we saw our first real glimpse of the potential toughness of Duke as sophomore post player Mason Plumlee muscled his way inside by scoring 14 of his career-high 25 points to push the Devils back out to a comfortable lead that eventually led to a 82-77 win over Marquette here at the Sprint Center.
Finally, Duke had reason to wipe its collective and untested brow this season.
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