{"id":110771,"date":"2026-02-11T04:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/110771\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T04:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:49:09","slug":"isiah-evans-scores-21-points-and-cameron-boozer-adds-17-to-lead-no-4-duke-over-pittsburgh-70-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/110771\/","title":{"rendered":"Isiah Evans scores 21 points and Cameron Boozer adds 17 to lead No. 4 Duke over Pittsburgh, 70-54"},"content":{"rendered":"

PITTSBURGH \u2014 Isiah Evans scored 21 points on 8-of-10 shooting, including 5 for 6 on 3-pointers, and No. 4 Duke pulled away in the second half to defeat Pittsburgh 70-54 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Cameron Boozer added 17 points and 10 rebounds for the Blue Devils, and Caleb Foster had 14 points and eight boards. <\/p>\n

Duke (22-2, 11-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) bounced back from a buzzer-beating loss to archrival North Carolina on Saturday that ended the Blue Devils\u2019 10-game winning streak. Duke blew a 15-point lead in the second half of that one and allowed the last nine points.<\/p>\n

There were six lead changes and five ties in the first half before Duke scored seven straight points to take a 35-29 halftime lead. The Blue Devils then scored the first five points of the second period to make it a 12-0 run and extend their advantage to 40-29.<\/p>\n

Pitt (9-16, 2-10) lost for the 10th time in 12 games. Roman Siulepa led the Panthers with 19 points and Barry Dunning Jr. scored 17, including 13 in the first half.<\/p>\n

Brandin Cummings, Pitt\u2019s leading scorer, missed his third straight game with an ankle injury. Cummings is averaging 12.5 points per game for a team that entered 302nd in the nation in scoring (70.8 ppg).<\/p>\n

Duke shot 57.4% from the field compared to Pitt\u2019s 35.8% and held a 34-22 rebounding advantage.<\/p>\n

\"Duke's<\/p>\n

Duke’s Isaiah Evans dribbles as Pittsburgh’s Damarco Minor (7) defends in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. Credit: AP\/Justin Berl<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Duke hosts No. 20 Clemson on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh visits No. 11 North Carolina on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Isiah Evans scored 21 points on 8-of-10 shooting, including 5 for 6 on 3-pointers, and No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1594,10150,73,75,74,5342],"class_list":["post-110771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-college","tag-college-basketball","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}