11/21/2009 - Michael Tomko, GoDuke.com

DURHAM, N.C. - The emotion inside Cameron Indoor Stadium got to Andre Dawkins in the Blue Devils 104-67 win over Radford.

You really can't fault the freshman guard for falling to the allure of the historic gym and the Cameron Crazies.

With Duke clearly in control and the outcome of the game no longer in doubt, the Chesapeake, Va., native urged the crowd to keep cheering following another barrage of three point buckets by Duke, with Dawkins adding the punctuation mark.

"That was amazing," Dawkins said. "You watch guys have that experience on TV and you just wish you could be there one day.  I just got kind of caught up in the moment.  It was fun."

Dawkins buried the Blue Devils 18th three pointer of the game as Duke shot 56 percent from beyond the arc.

"There was rhythm, a really good rhythm," head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "Andre [Dawkins] coming off and shooting the way he did...he got them all in rhythm. It says a lot for our veteran guys. They got him the ball."

The freshman from Atlantic Shores Christian High School was the best from long range today for the Blue Devils. Dawkins came off the bench to score 20 points, a career high, connecting on 6-of-8 (.750) from three and 7-of-9 (.778) from the floor.

"I'm starting to realize it takes a lot more work than it did in high school in order to get better because everybody is in the gym every day," Dawkins said.  "It's all about the extra stuff you can do.  As soon as I started to realize that, it became a little bit easier."

As a team, Duke made it look easy Saturday. The Blue Devils hoisted up 32 shots from three. The 18 threes made matched a school record.

"We have taken pretty good shots all year," Krzyzewski said. "I think that is a big emphasis for us. We are not going to force as many turnovers as we have in the past. We don't want to take a bad shot and have that be a turnover. A bad shot is like a turnover."

Duke shot 35-of-72 (.486) from the floor overall, recording an assist on 25 of their 35 made baskets and turning the ball over just eight times.

"When you get 72 shots in the game, you get a lot of possessions," Krzyzewski said. "To only turn it over that amount of times is very good. It is the second game in a row that we have had less than double-digit turnovers and 20-something assists. That is very good."

"We shared the ball so well," Krzyzewski added. "We had 35 buckets and 25 assists. For our veteran perimeter, each guy had seven assists [each] and only five turnovers [combined]. It was very good. That was one of the reasons we played so well. We connected on passes. We were connecting shots."

The starting perimeter of Jon Scheyer, Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith recorded 21 of the 25 assists with each handing out seven.

"The main thing is to share the ball and take good shots, and when we do that we can really get hot from three," Scheyer said.

Duke came out firing from long range right from the start with Radford settling into a zone defense. Duke's size and quick passing around the perimeter created shooting lanes for Dawkins, Singler, Scheyer, Smith and Ryan Kelly, all of whom connected from long range.

Smith and Scheyer each knocked down four, Singler three and Kelly one.

When Scheyer sees teams trying to defend them with a zone, his shooter's mentality takes over.

"I just want to make them pay for it, and I know Andre is sort of the same way," Scheyer said. "When he came in today, you see a zone as a shooter and you just want to light it up. That is something that goes through my mind."