No. 2 Duke Crushes Coastal Carolina 113-52 as Patrick Ngongba II Hits Career High

No. 2 Duke men’s basketball rolled past Coastal Carolina 113-52 on Thursday night, Nov. 5, 2026, at Cameron Indoor Stadium, according to GoDuke.com and Coastal Carolina Athletics. The Blue Devils improved to 2-0; the Chanticleers fell to 0-2.

Patrick Ngongba II led all scorers with a career-high 28 points on 10-of-13 shooting, including two threes, and grabbed nine rebounds. GoDuke listed his plus-minus at +53, the best mark by a Blue Devil since 2014.

Key performers

• Cayden Boozer: 11 points and a career-high 12 assists — his first career double-double. GoDuke said he is the first Blue Devil with a points-assists double-double since Tyrese Proctor in March 2023, and the first with 12-plus assists since Tre Jones in December 2019.
• John Blackwell and Caleb Foster: 15 points each. Foster’s appearance was his 100th as a Blue Devil.
• Dame Sarr: 12 points and a game-high four steals.
• Sebastian Wilkins: 11 rebounds, a career high for the sophomore.

For Coastal, Trey Perry scored 14 points and Jaevian Alston added 10 in his Chanticleers debut, Coastal Carolina Athletics reported. Tristan Thompson and Q Williams IV had seven apiece.

How the blowout built

Duke opened on a 16-0 run and held Coastal without a field goal for the first six minutes, GoDuke reported. The Blue Devils led 54-18 at halftime after a first-half output that matched their highest under coach Jon Scheyer. Consecutive threes from Ngongba early in the second half pushed the margin past 40; a Deron Rippey Jr. three-point play later made it a 50-point game.

Duke shot 61.3% from the field (38 makes, 25 assists) and 50% from three (11 of 22). Coastal shot 30.2% (19 of 63) and 18.2% from deep (4 of 22). The Blue Devils outrebounded the Chanticleers 53-27 and scored 27 points off 17 Coastal turnovers.

GoDuke called the 61-point margin the largest under Scheyer and the largest since a 64-point win over Stetson in December 2018. Duke has now won 34 consecutive home games — the longest active home streak nationally — and is 65-3 at Cameron under Scheyer.

What’s next

Duke (2-0) faces No. 6 Michigan State (2-0) in the Champions Classic on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. ET at the United Center in Chicago on ESPN, GoDuke reported. Coastal returns home Monday against USC Upstate at 7 p.m. in the HTC Center.

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