DURHAM, N.C. _ After sweating out a win at Georgia Tech on Wednesday night, No. 2 Duke returned to its dominating ways on Saturday night.
The Blue Devils torched the nets to lead by 26 at halftime and rolled to a 90-59 ACC basketball win over Wake Forest at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Since losing 85-83 in overtime to Stephen F. Austin on Nov. 26, Duke (15-1, 5-0 ACC) has had just one of its nine consecutive wins decided by less than 10 points. That was the Blue Devils' 73-64 win over Georgia Tech in Atlanta on Wednesday night.
Three of Duke's last four ACC wins have been decided by 30 points or more.
Wake Forest (8-7, 1-4 ACC) was just the latest team to run into the Duke buzz saw.
The Blue Devils hit 18 of their first 24 shots _ an astounding 72% clip _ to build a 45-21 lead with 3:34 left in the first half. Duke finished the first half shooting 62.5% and the game at 53.2%.
Tre Jones scored a game high 23 points for the Blue Devils while also adding five assists and four steals. Freshman Cassius Stanley scored 16 points for the Blue Devils. Sophomore guard Joey Baker came off the bench to add 11 points while making all three of his 3-point shots.
Jack White tallied 11 points and Jordan Goldwire scored 10 points with six assists for Duke.
Duke turned in one of its better 3-point shooting nights of the season, sinking 11 of 23 shots from behind the arc, for a 47.8 shooting clip. The only other game the Blue Devils made more 3-pointers was their 12 of 28 (42.9 percent) night against Boston College on Dec. 31.
Wake Forest's problems at Cameron Indoor Stadium continued as the Demon Deacons have not won in Durham since 1997. Duke owns 11 consecutive wins in the series, regardless of location, dating back to Wake's 82-72 win at Winston-Salem on March 5, 2014.
