{"id":32148,"date":"2025-02-02T05:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T05:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/cooper-flagg-leads-way-as-duke-blow-out-north-carolina-in-rivalry-game\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T05:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T05:12:11","slug":"cooper-flagg-leads-way-as-duke-blow-out-north-carolina-in-rivalry-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/cooper-flagg-leads-way-as-duke-blow-out-north-carolina-in-rivalry-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg leads way as Duke blow out North Carolina in rivalry game"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>No 2 Duke beat visiting UNC 87-70 in grudge match<\/li>\n<li>Flagg and Knueppel combine for 43 points in rout<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Freshmen Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel made memorable debuts in the Tobacco Road rivalry as No 2 Duke used a dominant first half to secure an 87-70 win over visiting North Carolina on Saturday night in Durham, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Flagg racked up 21 points, eight rebounds, seven assists and three steals for Duke (19-2, 11-0 in Atlantic Coast Conference play), who extended the longest active winning streak in the country to 15 games. Meanwhile, Knueppel scored 13 of his game-high 22 points in the second half and added five rebounds and five assists.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/01\/duke-north-carolina-game-report-cooper-flagg\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No 2 Duke beat visiting UNC 87-70 in grudge match Flagg and Knueppel combine for 43 points in rout Freshmen Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel made memorable debuts in the Tobacco Road rivalry as No 2 Duke used a dominant first half to secure an 87-70 win over visiting North Carolina on Saturday night in &#8230; <a title=\"Cooper Flagg leads way as Duke blow out North Carolina in rivalry game\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/cooper-flagg-leads-way-as-duke-blow-out-north-carolina-in-rivalry-game\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cooper Flagg leads way as Duke blow out North Carolina in rivalry game\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}