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BOX SCORE
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- After losing its last two games, North Carolina State went to the bench for help and found freshman Amy Simpson.
|  | | N.C. State's Talisha Scates, right, gets tangled up with Rochelle Parent in a scramble for a loose ball. |
"She was huge for us," Summer Erb said after the Wolfpack (No. 5 ESPN/USA Today, No. 6 Associated Press) rallied to beat Duke 80-75 in overtime Thursday night.
"She came in during the first half and got us back in the game.
Then she came in the second half and never stopped hitting," she said.
Simpson finished with a season-high 26 points, including six in
overtime. Erb added 19 points and 10 rebounds.
Duke's 15-game winning streak -- one shy of tying the school
record set last season -- was stopped. Duke (No. 8 ESPN/USA Today, No. 9 AP) had not lost since Nov.
17 to then-No. 20 Boston College.
The Wolfpack (15-2, 6-2 ACC), whose bench scored 40 points,
snapped a two-game conference losing streak. They had lost five
straight to Duke (16-2, 5-1).
"This was a great win for us and puts us right back in the race
for the Atlantic Coast Conference," Wolfpack coach Kay Yow said.
"This was a game we really needed."
Duke led for the last time in overtime on a running one-hander
by Olga Gvozdenvic with 1:30 left and then managed only one more
shot from the floor the rest of the way.
Simpson hit a 3-pointer from the right wing with 1:12 remaining
to give the Wolfpack the lead for good at 77-75.
N.C. State made 3-of-7 free throws in the last 25 seconds as Erb
pulled down two offensive rebounds and Simpson got another to deny
Duke the ball. Erb finished with 10 rebounds.
"Their bench was such a big factor for them, obviously," said
Duke's Gail Goestenkors. "Kay kept running people in and out the
whole game, and they eventually wore us out."
N.C. State's Tynesha Lewis made a 10-foot jumper from the
baseline with 34 seconds left to tie it at 67 and send it to
overtime. Lauren Rice missed a shot from the lane with three
seconds left for Duke.
Sheana Mosch's 3-pointer had put Duke ahead 67-65 with 50
seconds left in regulation.
The Wolfpack led 52-43 in the second half, but missed five of
its next seven shots, and neither team led by more than a basket in
the final 5:18.
Peppi Browne led Duke with a career-high 25 points and 12
rebounds and scored nine of the Blue Devils' last 14 points in
regulation. Rice added 16 and Mosch 13.
The Blue Devils jumped out to a 16-4 lead. Paced by Rochelle
Parent's three fast-break layups in the opening 6:19 of play, Duke
made eight of its first 10 shots.
N.C. State made just one of seven shots in the first six
minutes, then got back into contention behind Simpson's nine points
in the final 6:25 of the first half.
"They kept coming at us with so many different people," Rice
said. "They had so many weapons."
The Wolfpack limited Georgia Schweitzer, Duke's leading scorer
coming into the game, to just eight points on 4-of-11 shooting from
the floor, nine points below her average.
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