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RALEIGH, N.C. — The “Duke Invitational’’ came to a predictable close on Sunday, with the No. 1-seeded Blue Devils dispatching of Baylor to breeze their way into yet another Sweet 16.
Duke ended any suspense in this 89-66 second-round NCAA Tournament win at the Lenovo Center, which is located about 25 minutes from its campus, with an explosion in the final three minutes of the first half.
The Blue Devils turned a 35-30 lead over Baylor into a 47-30 bulge at the half with a devastating 12-0 run.
Baylor (20-15) would never recover.
Duke (33-3) is headed to the East Regional next week at the Prudential Center in Newark to play the winner of Sunday’s late Arizona-Oregon game.
It’s the Blue Devils’ second consecutive Sweet 16 appearance, third in the past four years and 34th overall in program history.
Duke’s first-half dominance was apparent in the numbers.
Duke was 13-of-20 from the field (65 percent) and 5-of-10 from 3-point range (50 percent), while Baylor was 12-of-34 from the field (35.3 percent) and 4-of-12 from long distance (33.3 percent).
Duke, too, was 16-of-19 from the free throw line while Baylor got to the line only twice, making both free throws.
Duke was led, as usual, by its star freshman Cooper Flagg, who scored 18 points and had eight rebounds.
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He scored 15 in the first half on 4-of-5 shooting and 6-of-7 from the line.
Tyrese Proctor finished with a career-high 25 points.
The Sydney, Australia native has been a terror from 3-point range of late.
He finished a career-high 7-of-8 from beyond the arc on Sunday and is 19-of-30 in his last three games.
Kon Knueppel scored 12 points and Patrick Ngongba had eight off the bench, all of which came in the first half, when he was 6-for-6 from the line.
Duke, too, dominated Baylor from the bench, outscoring the Bears 12-3 in the decisive first half.
VJ Edgecombe, the native of the Bahamas who played his final two years of high school at Long Island Lutheran, led Baylor with 16 points. Norchad Omier had 15 for Baylor and Langston Love had 11.
