The Blue Devils also fell because they simply spend more than any other team.
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The Blue Devils will have to silence the whistle to keep the run alive.
Plumlee finished with 10 points and the Blue Devils made 21 of 28 free throws.
These Blue Devils understand they won't get there if they don't take care of Albany first.
It was the Blue Devils showing they're determined to play their best in March.
Fittingly, he started the spurt that finally put the Blue Devils ahead for good.
Most of Williams' points came as the Blue Devils pulled away in the final five minutes.
He has led the Blue Devils to 27 NCAAs, including 11 Final Fours and four national titles.
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The Blue Devils will play Michigan State on Friday night in the Midwest Regional semifinals in Indianapolis.
Throw in 39 percent shooting, and the Blue Devils are far from playing their best in March.
He won national titles in 1991 and '92, while leading the Blue Devils to three Final Four berths.
They contested every shot and swarmed around the Blue Devils like they had an extra player on the court.
He led the Blue Devils to three Final Four berths, including 1992, when he was named most outstanding player.
While other high-seeded teams like Gonzaga and Georgetown made early exits, the Blue Devils are moving on to Indy.
Now there's Stephen's younger brother Seth, a 6-foot-2 senior for the Blue Devils.
The Blue Devils' other loss came at North Carolina State, a defeat that cost them the No. 1 ranking.
The Blue Devils are in the finals for the first time since 2010, when they won their only national championship.
Hurley's ties to the Blue Devils played a factor with White, whose father, Kevin White, is the AD at Duke.
Still, the Blue Devils haven't advanced past the round of 16 since Krzyzewksi won his fourth national championship in 2010.
Mason Plumlee, Josh Hairston and Ryan Kelly battled foul trouble all game long that could have doomed the Blue Devils.
Elizabeth Williams scored 14 of her 18 points after halftime, and Chelsea Gray finished with 14 for the Blue Devils.
"Especially in the first couple of minutes, we got a lot of great shots, " Blue Devils forward Mason Plumlee said.
Kelly had eight points for Duke, and the Blue Devils are 19-1 with the 6-foot-11 forward in the lineup this season.
The Blue Devils failed to score on their first 11 shots but closed out with 10 of the game's last 13 goals.
Against the Terps, the Blue Devils were 4 of 25 from beyond the arc while allowing Wells to hang 30 on them.
In 1998, when the Blue Devils lost to eventual national champion Kentucky.
This was only the second time the Blue Devils have reached the regional finals and failed to make it to the Final Four.
The Blue Devils measure conditioning with the fitness test from the NBA combine: 185-pound bench press, vertical jump, three-quarter-court sprint and lane-agility run.
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Curry and the Blue Devils came out with a shooting display that ran North Carolina right out of the Dean Dome by halftime.
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