Duke vs Georgia Tech: Box score, stats, game summary and more ft. Cooper Flagg

The No. 1-ranked Duke Blue Devils (28-3) took on the No. 8-ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (17-15) on Thursday's ACC Tournament fixture. The game started at Noon ET.

The Yellow Jackets were coming off a narrow 66-60 win over the Virginia Cavaliers in the second round. Conversely, Duke had earned byes through the first two rounds of the tournament.

While Georgia Tech narrowly escaped the second round, they were heavy underdogs in the quarterfinals. Duke entered the matchup as a -8000 favorite, and Georgia Tech was a +2200 underdog.

The Yellow Jackets made the game competitive and even led throughout most of the first half. However, Duke bounced back in the second half and won 78-70.

Duke vs Georgia Tech box score

Team	1st	2nd	Total
Georgia Tech	31	39	70
Duke	26	52	78

Duke Blue Devils stats

	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
Cooper Flagg	1 for 7	0 for 3	0 for 0	0	4	4	0	2	1	1	0	2
Khaman Maluach	6 for 8	0 for 0	2 for 2	4	5	9	0	0	4	2	3	14
Kon Knueppel	7 for 14	2 for 6	12 for 13	2	3	5	8	2	1	1	1	28
Tyrese Proctor	2 for 11	0 for 5	2 for 2	2	3	5	3	1	0	1	1	6
Sion James	3 for 7	1 for 5	0 for 0	1	3	4	3	0	0	0	3	7
Maliq Brown	0 for 0	0 for 0	0 for 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mason Gillis	0 for 2	0 for 2	0 for 0	0	4	4	0	2	0	1	1	0
Patrick Ngongba II	3 for 3	0 for 0	1 for 2	1	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	7
Isaiah Evans	5 for 9	4 for 8	0 for 0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	14
Caleb Foster	0 for 1	0 for 1	0 for 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets stats

	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
Baye Ndongo	6 for 11	0 for 0	3 for 3	4	3	7	3	1	2	2	3	15
Duncan Powell	9 for 20	6 for 14	0 for 0	3	3	6	2	1	1	2	4	24
Naithan George	3 for 12	2 for 5	0 for 0	0	3	3	7	1	0	3	1	8
Jaeden Mustaf	1 for 5	0 for 2	3 for 4	0	5	5	2	1	0	1	2	5
Lance Terry	5 for 11	2 for 4	0 for 1	0	4	4	0	0	0	2	4	12
Ibrahim Souare	0 for 0	0 for 0	0 for 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Darrion Sutton	2 for 2	2 for 2	0 for 0	0	3	3	0	0	0	1	2	6

Duke vs Georgia Tech game summary

The Blue Devils are the No. 1-ranked team in the nation and have the projected first pick in this year’s NBA draft, Cooper Flagg. However, when the game started, it became apparent that this would be a more competitive game than fans anticipated.

The teams went back and forth for the first few minutes, but Georgia Tech emerged with a 19-8 lead as the halfway point in the first half approached. Things were made worse as late in the first half, with the Yellow Jackets leading 26-17, their star player, Flagg, went down with an apparent ankle injury.

He needed to be helped off the court and did not return to the game. Flagg was seen being taken to the X-ray room at halftime and although he returned to the bench, he did not play the rest of the game.

Georgia Tech continued its momentum through the rest of the first half and headed into halftime with 31-26 lead. However, despite being down their star player, the Duke Blue Devils rallied in the second half.

The Blue Devils scored the first 12 points of the second half, taking the lead from Georgia Tech for the first time since early in the first half. While Georgia Tech put together a solid offensive half from that point on, the poor start to the half was too much for them to overcome.

Duke held on and won 78-70 to advance to the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.