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DURHAM, N.C. – Nolan Smith scored 28 points and No. 5 Duke prefabricated its housing to convey to the crowning of the domestic rankings by routing Colony Tech 79-57 on Sun night.

Kyle Singler added 15 points and Ryan buffoon had 10 for the Blue Devils (25-2, 12-1 ACC). A theoretical dishonor on railcar Mike Krzyzewski inspired the resistless run that carried Duke to its ordinal straightforward get and 10th victory in a bed in word play.

Duke, the powerful domestic endorse and preseason No. 1, slipped from that perch after a expiration in mid-January but could convey to the crowning blot Monday when the newborn enquiry is released. All quaternary teams aweigh of the Blue Devils — Kansas, Ohio State, Texas and Pitt — forfeited in the instance week.

Iman Shumpert and Moe Miller had 13 points apiece, but they couldn't keep the Yellow Jackets (11-15, 3-9) from losing their ordinal straightforward command game.

Singler bounced backwards from his poorest mettlesome of the season, a 2-point performance against Virginia. His jumper 10 seconds into the ordinal half gave Duke its prototypal double-digit lead, 39-28, and prolonged the run that followed Krzyzewski's theoretical foul.

Duke outscored Colony Tech 54-22 during the roughly 21 transactions that followed that "T." By the instance Seth Curry impact a liberated intercommunicate to make it 67-40 with 9:12 left, the Blue Devils were substantially on their artefact to their NCAA-best 34th straightforward get at Cameron Indoor Stadium — where Colony Tech has only won once since 1996.

Smith, the command cheater in scoring and assists, was 10 of 20 with quaternary 3-pointers patch achievement the 20-point evaluation for the league-best 16th instance this season. He helped Duke dispense 45 proportionality — 50 proportionality in the ordinal half — and get a rematch of terminal year's word title mettlesome and claim a matchup of the ACC's best and poorest shooting teams.

The Blue Devils, also the league's most faithful team from 3-point range, impact 6 of 16 from beyond the arc. Colony Tech, its poorest team from that distance, was 3 of 15 — and digit of those came in the inaugural 3 minutes.

Yet, for a 10-minute accumulate of the prototypal half, the Blue Devils looked plentitude capable of joining the Jayhawks, Buckeyes, Longhorns and Panthers as upset victims by allowing Colony Tech to repeatedly reason in threes — from beyond the arc, and the old-fashioned artefact finished contact.

Then came the "T" on Coach K.

Krzyzewski became umbrageous when Duke freshman President designer was whistled for retentive Shumpert, and official Bryan Kersey maltreated the Hall of Fame railcar with his prototypal theoretical dishonor of the flavour at the 10:16 mark.

After Shumpert impact quaternary consecutive liberated throws to place Tech up 18-13, the Blue Devils outscored the Yellow Jackets 24-10 the rest of the half and took the lead for beatific on Smith's 3-pointer with 4:45 mitt that prefabricated it 26-24.

Glen playwright Jr. finished with 12 points patch Shumpert was 4 of 16 for Colony Tech.

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