{"id":286105,"date":"2025-11-15T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286105\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:01:07","slug":"cameron-boozers-35-point-outing-in-4th-game-powers-duke-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286105\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Boozer’s 35-point outing in 4th game powers Duke win"},"content":{"rendered":"

DURHAM, N.C. — Freshman Cameron Boozer<\/a> has already made it onto a list of all-time great Duke<\/a> performances in just his fourth college game.<\/p>\n

Boozer’s 35 points for the fourth-ranked Blue Devils came in Friday night’s 100-62 victory<\/a> over Indiana State<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That tied the second-most points in a game for a Duke freshman behind only Cooper Flagg<\/a>‘s 42 last season against Notre Dame<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Just his approach,” Duke coach Jon Scheyer said. “He’s such a competitor.”<\/p>\n

Boozer shares the 35-point freshman mark with Zion Williamson<\/a> (2018-19) and Jared McCain<\/a> (2023-24). Boozer’s output was one more point than Marvin Bagley III<\/a> (2017-18) and JJ Redick (2022-23) had in their first seasons with the Blue Devils.<\/p>\n

“When I’m focusing on the right things like defense, rebounding, pressuring the ball, the other things naturally happen,” Boozer said. “Just really thinking about what can I do every play.”<\/p>\n

The others in the top five on the program’s single-game freshman scoring list have been first-round NBA draft selections, including Williamson and Flagg at No. 1. All except Redick, coach of the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>, are active NBA players.<\/p>\n

Boozer made 13 of 16 shots from the field, connecting on both 3-point shots. He wasn’t quite as smooth at the free throw line, going 7-for-11.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know how you could be more efficient,” Scheyer said. “I think his three misses, he got all the rebounds and scored them.”<\/p>\n

Cameron Boozer shares the 35-point freshman mark with Zion Williamson (2018-19) and Jared McCain (2023-24). Boozer\u2019s output was one more point than Marvin Bagley III (2017-18) and JJ Redick (2022-23) had in their first seasons with the Blue Devils.\u00a0Ben McKeown\/AP<\/p>\n

Boozer also provided team highs of 12 rebounds and five assists. He dominated in the lane against the smaller Sycamores.<\/p>\n

“He gets it down in the paint, he’s going to attack the rim, it’s hard to stop him,” teammate Caleb Foster<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

Boozer is averaging 22.5 points per game going into Tuesday night’s matchup vs. No. 25 Kansas<\/a> in New York.<\/p>\n

“He has such a good way about him,” Scheyer said. “I just think it speaks to his character. I actually want him to be more aggressive with his scoring. I thought he was doing a great job of getting others open.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DURHAM, N.C. — Freshman Cameron Boozer has already made it onto a list of all-time great Duke performances…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-286105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}