No. 4 Duke rolls past Pitt, 86-56
PITTSBURGH — Mike Krzyzewski’s final true road game at Duke ended like so many that came before it: with the fourth-ranked Blue Devils quickly quieting the crowd on their way to another blowout win.
Freshman guard Trevor Keels scored a career-high 27 points, Paolo Banchero added 21 and Duke clinched at least a share of its 13th Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title under Krzyzewski with an 86-56 win over Pittsburgh on Tuesday night.
The Blue Devils (26-4, 16-3) wasted little time making sure Krzyzewski would pick up his ACC-record 201st road win, taking a 13-point lead before the game was four minutes old.
Krzyzewski improved to 272-154 in road games with the Blue Devils. Two of the losses have come at the Petersen Events Center since Pitt (11-19, 6-13) joined the ACC in 2013, including a stunning upset by the Panthers a year ago.
Not this time. The Blue Devils are more talented than Pitt and locked up the top-seed in the ACC tourney.