Duke 97, Georgia Southern 54

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Finally, a blowout that Kyle Singler and Duke (No. 5 ESPN/USA Today, No. 8 AP) could enjoy.  Singler scored 19 points for the second straight game and the Blue Devils rolled into the 2K Sports College Hoops Classic supporting Coaches vs. Cancer semifinals by routing Georgia Southern 97-54 on Tuesday night.

Nolan Smith added 13 points, and Gerald Henderson and Greg Paulus each finished with 11 for the Blue Devils (2-0), who weren't satisfied in the slightest with their 31-point rout of Presbyterian 24 hours earlier.

So, after getting back to their trademark brand of basketball, they did.

The Blue Devils cranked up the pressure on their hostile home floor, turning 17 Eagles turnovers into 24 points and sparking two overwhelming runs to claim their 61st straight nonconference victory at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Willie Powers scored 17 points and Julian Allen had 10 to lead Georgia Southern (1-1). The Eagles went at least 5 minutes between field goals twice in the first half, and they shot just 28 percent while allowing Duke to shoot 48.5 percent.

"Our team is obviously not ready to play a game of this caliber," Georgia Southern coach Jeff Price said. "We just weren't ready for a game of this magnitude against a really, really good team."

The Blue Devils opened with a 16-4 run and took command late in the first half by running off 15 straight points over a 2-minute stretch. That pushed their lead past 20 points for good, and it grew to 30 just 12 seconds into the second half on Smith's 3-pointer.

They won this one mostly without their three blue-chip freshmen. Miles Plumlee, Elliot Williams and Olek Czyz spent the entire first half on the bench after they were a combined 3-for-9 with five turnovers against Presbyterian.

Krzyzewski said he leaned on his veterans for much of the way because he wanted them "to show the leadership of how we wanted to play for 40 minutes."

Then again, nobody at Duke was terribly content with that win, because the Blue Devils had 21 turnovers in that one and were too sloppy on both ends of the court for Coach K's liking. They were sharper this time, giving it away only 11 times.

Singler keyed the game-opening spurt with seven quick points, and David McClure closed it at the 13 1/2-minute mark by grabbing the rebound of Paulus' missed 3 and slamming it home. Then, Jon Scheyer and Smith hit 3s during the 15-0 run, and Singler capped it with a fast-break dunk with 42 seconds left to put Duke up 50-22.

Still, the Blue Devils weren't perfect, and most of their lapses took place at the free-throw line, where they were 25-for-49 -- and that doesn't count the three misses by Henderson that were wiped out by Georgia Southern lane violations.