No. 1 Duke Cruises Past Portland

Mike Krzyzewski wants togetherness right now more than 40-point victories.

And the Duke coach made a point to tell the top-ranked Blue Devils just that following a 104-62 victory over Portland on Sunday night at Durham, N.C., spending 20 minutes with the team in the locker room after the lopsided game.

“Coach is a little upset,” Mike Dunleavy said. “He expects a lot out of us. That Portland team played really together and played hard and he’s trying to teach us to do that.”

Krzyzewski wasn’t pleased with Chris Duhon’s play and benched him to start the second half. And at one point, Krzyzewski called a timeout to yell at his players as they were lining up for a free throw.

“The game is not coached for just this game, it’s to see different things,” Krzyzewski said. “If you’re trying to figure it out just for this game, it’s probably a square peg trying to be put in a circle.”

The Blue Devils, struggling from the outside again, got 20 points from Carlos Boozer.

Boozer, 11 for 11 from the field in a 33-point victory over the Pilots last season, made eight of 14 this time and grabbed 13 rebounds as Duke (4-0) had six players score in double figures.

The Blue Devils won their 20th consecutive home opener.

Dahntay Jones scored 17 points and freshman Daniel Ewing scored 15.

Jason Williams, Duke’s All-American guard who was 0 for 5 from three-point range and scored only 10 points, took Krzyzewski’s postgame message to heart.

“We have to understand just because we’re being hyped up as ‘The Team,’ we still have a lot to work on,” Williams said. “This year’s team has to realize that we don’t have anything. We have to have that hunger to go after it.”

Casey Frandsen led Portland (1-2) with 28 points.

No. 8 Arizona 89, Nike Elite 83--Jason Gardner scored 22 points and Channing Frye scored 21 for Arizona in an exhibition game at Tucson.

The Wildcats trailed, 47-44, at halftime and 51-46 early in the second half before rallying.

Frye had eight points in an 11-0 run and Gardner started a 12-2 spurt with a three-point basket and a layup.

Rick Hughes scored 20 points for Nike Elite.

No. 19 St. Joseph’s 81, Colorado 75--Marvin O’Connor scored 29 points, including five-for-eight shooting from three-point range in the second half, to lead St. Joseph’s at Philadelphia.

Bill Phillips had 18 points and seven rebounds for St. Joseph’s (2-1).

The Hawks relied on O’Connor’s shooting and an aggressive man-to-man defense to hand Colorado (3-1) its first loss.

Michel Morandais led Colorado with 16 points and Mookie Wright had 15.

SOUTHLAND

Jordan Harris, Adam Parada and Jerry Green each scored 14 points but UC Irvine fell to Kent State, 75-64, in the fifth-place game of the University Hoops Classic at Coraopolis, Pa. Trevor Huffman scored 22 points for Kent State.