{"id":32319,"date":"2014-12-29T21:45:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T02:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=32319"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:40:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T04:40:26","slug":"mens-basketball-team-battles-duke-comes-up-short-86-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/12_29_2014\/mens-basketball-team-battles-duke-comes-up-short-86-69","title":{"rendered":"Rockets battle Duke, come up short, 86-69"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freshman center Jahlil Okafor proved to be too much for Toledo to handle on Monday evening in the Rockets\u2019 86-69 setback at No. 2 Duke.<\/p>\n

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Senior Julius Brown scored a team-high 19 points in Toledo’s 86-69 loss at No. 2 Duke.<\/p><\/div>The Rockets\u2019 senior trio of guard Julius Brown (19 points), guard Justin Drummond (14 points) and forward J.D. Weatherspoon (14 points and team-high eight rebounds) paced the Rockets\u2019 offense. <\/p>\n

Sophomore guard Jonathan Williams also was in double figures with 10 points. Junior center Nathan Boothe tallied nine points but played just 21 minutes due to foul trouble.<\/p>\n

Okafor topped Duke offensively with a season-high 27 points on 12 of 15 shooting, while senior guard Quinn Cook posted a season-best 20 points.<\/p>\n

After falling behind by 14 points early in the contest, Toledo connected on 13 of 15 shots over a nine-and-a-half-minute span to cut the Blue Devils\u2019 lead to 47-44 approximately 90 seconds into the second half.<\/p>\n

Okafor ignited a decisive 21-9 run by scoring seven straight points that put Duke up 68-53 with just over nine minutes remaining.<\/p>\n

The contest was played at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C., and televised on ESPN2.<\/p>\n

Toledo will return to action Saturday, Jan. 3, with a trip to Highland Heights, Ky., for its final non-conference contest at Northern Kentucky (6-7). Tip-off time is set for 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Toledo Rockets pulled to within three points of Duke early in the second half before the Blue Devils went on a run and secured an 86-69 victory in a nationally televised contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,5,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}