Duke Blue Devils vs Boston College Eagles Match Player Stats On Dec 09, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Dec 9, 2017

BOSTON -- Boston College stunned No. 1 Duke on Saturday.

Jerome Robinson hit two consecutive 3-pointers late and the unranked Eagles, who blew a 10-point second-half lead, held off the Blue Devils 89-84, triggering a mob scene on the court after the game.

With 5.6 seconds left, the sellout BC crowd (which included many Duke fans) chanted "Over-rated" at Duke, which lost for only the third time in 23 all-time games against BC -- both teams playing their ACC openers.

The loss, coming in Duke's 3,000th game, deprived coach Mike Krzyzewski of his 500th road win with the program.

The Eagles were down by four before Robinson hit his two straight treys to give his team the lead for good with 1:16 remaining.

Ky Bowman scored a season-high 30 points and had 10 rebounds and nine assists. Robinson had 24 and Jordan Chatman a season-high 22. Chatman hit four straight free throws and Robinson two in the final 15.3 seconds.

The Eagles (7-3) came in as 15 1/2-point underdogs but led by 10 with 15:36 left before Duke (11-1) came charging back.

BC made 15 of 26 from 3-point range, with Robinson going 5 of 5 from behind the arc. Duke was just 8 of 30 from long range.

The win was BC's third straight playing a No. 1 team -- the Eagles defeating North Carolina in 2009 and Syracuse in 2014, both on the road. The program is 4-5 all-time against No. 1s.

Freshman Gary Trent Jr. led the young Blue Devils with 25 points, while fellow frosh Marvin Bagley III had 15 points and 12 rebounds, his seventh straight double-double. Grayson Allen added 14 points but was just 5 of 20 from the floor, 1 of 9 from long distance.

NOTES: Boston College F Deontae Hawkins, lost for the season with a knee injury, sat behind the team bench. ... This is Duke's 134th week ranked No. 1, tying UCLA for that NCAA mark, and the Devils will now likely have to wait for No. 135. ... Eagles G Ky Bowman came in as the only player in the country averaging at least 15.8 points, 6.0 rebounds and 5.4 assists to this point in the season. ... The Boston College football team, headed for the Dec. 27 Pinstripe Bowl in New York, was honored during a second-half timeout. ... Duke is off until Dec. 20 when it hosts Evansville, while BC hosts Columbia on Tuesday night.