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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 2012
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Miami's Kenny Kadji reacts following a basket against Duke during the first half of Miami's game in Durham, N.C. Sunday, Miami won 78-74 in overtime.
Miami stuns Duke in overtime
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DURHAM, N.C. — No. 7 Duke won four national championships over the years while being driven by what Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski says was energy, effort and hunger.
When the Blue Devils didn't necessarily have those things Sunday, they couldn't even beat Miami.
The Hurricanes stunned Duke 78-74 in overtime, dropping the Blue Devils out of their three-way tie for first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference and likely taking some of the luster off the Duke-North Carolina game later this week.
The Blue Devils couldn't handle Miami's 6-foot-10, 284-pound Reggie Johnson, who scored five of his
career-high 27 points in the overtime and added a season-high 12 rebounds.
But more distressing to Krzyzewski — once again — the Blue Devils played for too long without the all-out effort that has marked his program's rise among the nation's elite.
"A Duke team should play with energy for 40 minutes, or 45." Krzyzewski said. "Go outside right now and you look at the banners
— there are quite a few of them up there. They were not won without energy, without hunger, with no complacency, with people really wanting it.
"And we've wanted it a lot, and we've won a lot. We're supposed to play hard and with energy all the time. Those are givens. Those
should be givens."
Instead, the Blue Devils (19-4,
6-2) have lost two of their last three
games at Cameron Indoor Stadium
and have dropped multiple home
games for the first time since going
15-4 there in 2006-07. Krzyzewski
at the time compared his team's
only home win in the past two
weeks — a victory over St. John's —
to an AAU game because of Duke's
occasional lack of intensity.
Seth Curry scored 22 points and freshman Austin Rivers added 20. Mason Plumlee had 13 rebounds for Duke, which missed all six of its free throws in overtime and wound up being beaten at home by a Florida-based conference rival for the second time this season. Duke had its 45-game home winning streak snapped two weeks ago by No. 21
The Blue Devils had plenty of chances in the extra session. They trailed 75-74 with Cook on the line, but he missed two free throws with 27.2 seconds left.
"The biggest emphasis for us was to protect our home court," guard Quinn Cook said. "We've got to get better."
After Johnson missed two foul shots with 26.2 seconds left to give Duke another shot, Cook missed badly on a running jumper with about 15 seconds left. DeQuan Jones extended Miami's lead to 77-74 with two foul shots with 12.9 seconds left.
"For 24 minutes, I just think we were not very good at all," Krzyzewski said. "We had no energy and they did."
RIVALRY
Michigan State ends losing streak
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EAST LANSING, Mich. — Draymond Green had 14 points and 16 rebounds to lead No. 9 Michigan State to a 64-54 win over No. 23 Michigan on Sunday, backing up his guarantee of a victory.
The Spartans (18-5, 7-3 Big Ten) ended a three-game skid in the rivalry and moved into sole possession of second place in the conference behind third-ranked Ohio State.
The Wolverines (17-7, 7-4) haven't won or lost consecutive games in nearly a month.
Green played, as he promised, with a sprained left knee and the senior had the best game of his career in the series.
Michigan's Tim Hardaway Jr. missed his first six shots and had a season-low four points. Teammate Trey Burke had made only one shot before his 3-pointer just before halftime pulled the Wolverines within eight points. Burke finished with 11 points.
The Spartans took control with a 17-7 run early in the first half and pulled away with eight straight points to take a 57-40 lead with just under 3 minutes left after Brandon Wood tracked down an offensive rebound and made a 3-pointer.
Michigan State outrebounded the Wolverines 40-16, including 12-3 on the offensive glass. Green matched Michigan's total by himself.
Keith Appling and Branden Dawson each scored 10 points and Wood added nine for the Spartans, who made 52 percent of their shots and held the Wolverines to sub-40-percent shooting.
Michigan's Zach Novak scored 14 points and Jordan Morgan had 11.
The Spartans held Michigan scoreless for 5-plus minutes, but
they were tied at 2 after making only one shot and turning the ball over four times.
Michigan State started clicking on offense while the Wolverines continued to struggle, leading 19-9 midway through the first half.
The Spartans made 59 percent of their shots in the first half with eight players making a shot.
Michigan, meanwhile, had eight turnovers by halftime three fewer than it averages in a game — and shot 39 percent.
The Wolverines tried to get Hardaway going early in the second half, but he missed four shots in the opening minutes before finally making a shot with 15:26 left in the game.
Michigan State built a 16-point lead with just under 13 minutes left soon after the usually composed Michigan coach John Beilein was called for a technical foul for arguing a call. A few minutes later, the Spartans' bench was called for a technical.
Green was the center of attention before the game, playing after being injured in a loss Tuesday night at Illinois and saying only death could have kept him off the court.
The do-it-all forward guaranteed Michigan State would win Sunday's game after his floating 10-footer and tip-in attempt in the final seconds of last month's setback in Ann Arbor. Michigan had won three straight times in the rivalry for the first time since winning five in a row from 1996 to 1998.
Green, whose previous high against Michigan was 10 points, made a fadeaway jumper and left-handed layup to restore the 10-point lead on ensuing possessions after the Wolverines cut their deficit to single digits midway through the second half.
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