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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Kansas' aboriginal comedy from flat went for a 13-yard loss.
For the Jayhawks, it alone got worse from there.
Duke baffled Kansas 41-3 on Saturday, axis this antagonism of basketball bluebloods into a beating abaft a record-setting 245 yards hasty from Blue Devils apprentice Shaun Wilson.
Montell Cozart was 11 of 27 for 89 yards for Kansas (1-1) but threw two interceptions that Duke angry into acreage goals.
The Jayhawks didn't beforehand further than the Duke 17 and absent their 25th beeline alley game. This was the 15th defeat in that amplitude by at atomic 20 points.
They struggled to get out of their own way while bottomward into a abysmal aboriginal aperture they couldn't escape, falling abaft 17-0 in beneath than 10 minutes.
Kansas' alone credibility came on Matthew Wyman's 34-yard acreage ambition backward in the aboriginal quarter.
Coach Charlie Weis said the aboriginal comedy of the bold — a breeze sailed over Cozart's arch — "set the tone."
"I knew ... that Duke's point of accent this anniversary was the aboriginal quarter," Weis said.
His aggregation additionally couldn't stop Wilson.
Not back the bold was in the balance, and absolutely not in debris time.
Wilson denticulate on runs of 69, 68 and 45 yards while breaking Robert Baldwin's 20-year-old single-game almanac for the Blue Devils (3-0).
"Get the ball, and if you see green, you've got to aloof go," Wilson said. "So I was active as fast as I could."
The apprentice from Charlotte didn't alike appearance up on the abyss blueprint — Shaquille Powell was listed as the amateur with Josh Snead as the top advancement — yet he entered averaging about 10 yards per carry.
"The coaches said they were attractive for me to appear in and play," Wilson said. "I came in aloof attractive at Josh Snead and Shaq Powell and aloof accomplishing what they do and aloof aggravating to accomplish myself bigger and prepared."
On his aboriginal carry, he access through the band and raced clear through the larboard ancillary on his way to a 69-yard touchdown run — his aboriginal academy TD — that pushed the advance to 17-0.
His additional academy account was alone hardly beneath — a 68-yarder in the final minute of the third division fabricated it 34-3.
Wilson afresh denticulate from 45 yards out to accomplish it a 38-point bold and accompany him to 237 yards hasty — a backyard shy of the mark Baldwin set adjoin Maryland in '94.
After the aegis affected a stop with 5 abnormal remaining, Wilson bankrupt the almanac with an 8-yard run on the game's final play.
Anthony Boone threw two TD passes to Max McCaffrey for Duke, which denticulate the aboriginal three times it affected the ball, congenital a 511-297 advantage in absolute yardage and cruised to its aboriginal 3-0 alpha back 1994.
Boone accomplished 19 of 33 for 180 yards in three abode with scoring passes to McCaffrey accoutrement 36 and 10 yards. He bigger to 13-0 as a amateur in regular-season games.
It apparent the acknowledgment cruise of a alternation that started back these teams were on adverse ends of the academy football aliment chain. Back in 2009, Kansas wasn't far removed from its Orange Bowl run back the Jayhawks becoming a 44-16 beating of a chump Duke team.
Five years later, and the roles accept antipodal drastically. It's the ACC Coastal Division best Blue Devils who are appointment contenders while the Jayhawks face a continued alley to respectability.
Boone capped Duke's aperture drive by award McCaffrey over the average and the receiver bankrupt two tackles on his way into the end area to accomplish it 7-0.
The two absorbed up afresh on the additional drive of the third quarter, with McCaffrey's beneath scoring bolt authoritative it 27-3.
"I got hit on the 5 about anniversary time and aloof thought, 'I accept to get in there,'" McCaffrey said.
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