Duke faced a challenge against Wake Forest unlike anything it has seen in nearly three months, and the second-ranked Blue Devils responded with something they hadn't done all season. Duke erased a six-point second-half deficit after switching to a 2-3 zone defense over the final nine minutes and utterly suffocated the Demon Deacons' scorers to escape with a 63-56 win,

No. 2 Duke took a different route to its latest Atlantic Coast Conference win. The Blue Devils pushed through their worst offensive day of the season to hang on down the stretch and beat Wake Forest 63-56 on Saturday.

Behind 24 points from Flagg, 15 from Knueppel, and 11 from Gillis, Scheyer's third batch of Blue Devils extended its winning streak to 13 and remained undefeated in ACC play, improving to 17-2 overall and 9-0 against the conference.