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Show Duke's Grayson Allen steals the BY LAURA KEELEY TNS Syracuse became the latest team to beat the Blue Devils, It is the first three-gam- e losing streak for Duke since 2006-0- 7 season, This will also surely break a streak of 166 64-6- r-- f a 2. straight weeks in the poll for the No. 20 AP Blue Devils. Like the losses to Clemson and Notre Dame, this one came down to the wire. It ' was a one-possessi- on game with twc minutes action at Cameron Indoor Stadium first-ha- lf left and Syracuse up Out of a Duke timeout, Tyler Roberson drove to the basket and converted a lay-u- p through contact to extend the Orange lead possession ticked down to five with 34.2 seconds left. The ball went to Plumlee, who found a way to lay it to 63-6- 61-5- It just keeps getting harder for Duke. T ball from Siena's Ryan Oliver, left, during 8. 53-5- 8. in to cut into the Syracuse lead again at 2 with 31.3 sec- in Durham, North Carolina was fouled again on the inbounds, leaving just 10.8 seconds. Allen got the ball again, and his drive wouldn't go. There were no fouls called in the rebounding scrum, and Richardson emerged with it. He made his first free throw and missed his second. But the 64-6- 2 lead was enough for Grayson Allen drove through the Syracuse zone with the shot clock winding down to cut the deficit to 8 with 1:28 remaining. Cooney couldn't get a tough jumper to go on the Orange's next possession, and Marshall Plumlee was able to grab the offensive rebound. The shot clock on Duke's next Syracuse, as Matt of Jones heaved a prayer athis from midcourt that and didn't draw a foul call Grayson tempt, Allen was fouled as he or come anywhere started to drive. That close to the basket. was just Syracuse's After Duke struggled to rebound against fourth team foul. Allen from the field and 47 percent from behind the line. It also scored 23 points off 17 total turnovers commited by the Red Storms offense. We were really timid with the ball, Thigpin said. We never really attacked them and were on our heels a lot, which caused us to turn the ball over. DSU was plus 22 in the rebound battle but shot below 40 percent from the field and just 28 percent from beyond the arc. It also dominated the offensive glass, securing 23 such rebounds while limiting its opponent to just two. We couldnt buy a basket, Thigpin said. We got great looks, but they just didnt fall for us tonight. At the end of the day we need to be able to knock down shots. Mann had a monster game as she put in 27 points and snatched 24 two rebounds rebounds of own DSU her shy tying record of 26. My teammates did a really good job of getting me the ball tonight, Mann said. I knew that we needed to get a win to move us up in the conference, and I just wanted to do whatever it took to help us do that. DSU now falls to 5 in the PacWest and will travel to Hawaii for a three-gam- e road trip as it takes on the University of Hawaii at Hilo Thursday, Chaminade University ii Saturday and then Tuesday. 63-5- onds left. With just 1 .3 seconds difference between the shot and game clocks, Duke was forced to foul. Michael Gbinijie missed the front-en- d one-and-o- ne Notre Dame, those problems rose to a new level against Syracuse. The two games in three days turnaround wasn't a recipe for success it was one for disaster. Tyler Roberson, who entered the game averaging 8.5 rebounds had 20, 12 coming on the offensive glass. In the first eight minutes of the second half, the Orange missed 15 shots and grabbed 12 offensive rebounds. With each passing one, Mike Krzyzewski grew more and more frustrated. He was as demonstratively angry as he has been all year. At the media timeout with 10:27 left in the fire and game,-hibrimstone speech in the huddle brought the people behind Duke's bench to their feet. But when Malachi s Richardson missed a jump shot and yet another offensive rebound turned into a Trevor Cooney Krzyzewski stayed on the bench this time with his arms crossed. There was nothing more he could say. All he could do was watch. y lot on' pot 3Pt basketball continued from page 4 13 L full-cou- pressure, rt Thigpin said. By double-- d teaming the ball, we are Uf gambling a little, and, against a good shooting ait" team like this, we cant in" give up those easy looks. fhe The hot shooting ayr I1 in1 ioL continued for the Sea Lions in the second half, DSU found itself of1 trailing 7 with just T"1 six minutes left in the ited game. 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