NEW YORK -- Might had already gone through a challenging reduction this season, dropping in extra time to In in Honolulu.

On Wednesday evening the Jayhawks went from looking like easy champions to experiencing another unbearable reduction. But a brief bouncer by Honest Builder III with 1.8 a few moments to go provided the Jayhawks a 77-75 success over top-ranked Fight it out in the Condition Village Winners Traditional at Madison Rectangle Lawn.

"The perform was to iso (isolate) me, and my team members did a excellent job of space the ground," Builder said. "It experienced excellent when it remaining my side. "

A long 3 at the alarm sounds by Duke's Honest Fitzgibbons was off range.

The Jayhawks (1-1) defeat a top-ranked group for the 8th time.

"This was more of a must win for us than it was for Fight it out. Not that there's must win this season, but I think it will do something for us because for the new we won a sport where we taken it like junk," Might trainer Invoice Self said. "So hopefully we discovered some training and know that you cannot be great offensively and still win if you do little things and perform strongly. So I think it should bode well for us continuing to move ahead. "

Self was all happiness referring to his mature factor secure.

"He's designed lot of big performs for us," Self said of Builder. "I don't know if he's designed any game-winners but he's designed performs to put us in extra time. Really he's a man."

"Mason designed big-time perform and it was well protected," Fight it out trainer Scott Krzyzewski said. "He just designed big-time perform.'

Kansas was ahead 62-50 with 8 moments to try out but the Red Demons (2-1), despite a bad capturing activity by Grayson Allen, the major vote-getter on The Associated Press' preseason All-America group, handled to instantly start reaching photos and they linked the experience at 75 with 15 a few moments remaining on a 3-pointer by Fitzgibbons..

Kansas known as a timeout with 8.2 a few moments remaining and set up the game-winner.

"That was quite a perform we known as, just get out of his way," Self said.

"I just took benefits of the separating I designed and I just taken the football," Builder said. "It experienced excellent when it remaining my side and I just thank God that it went in."

Mason, who had a career-high 30 in the reduction to In, led Might with 21 factors, newcomer Josh Fitzgibbons included 15 and Devonte' Graham had 13.

Luke Kennard led five Fight it out gamers in dual numbers with 22 factors. Allen completed 12 factors on 4-for-15 capturing.

"I think Grayson had a very annoying activity," Krzyzewski said of Allen who began the experience by looking into creating 1 of 12 from the area. "I think you can't anticipate to get a nasty. I think he's going to some extent where he creates a shift and it's a excellent shift and he desires a nasty. I'm not saying they're not contacting fouls. You can't do that. That can't be what you're doing. The last several of moments, he shifted well. He's enjoying hard when he gets the football and he needs to try out more complicated when he does not have the football. It's what he did in the last several of moments."

Kansas completed 2 for 17 from 3-point variety but the Jayhawks taken 50.8 % overall (33 for 65) such as creating 60.6 % of their photos in the second 50 percent (20 of 33).

Duke taken 48.9 % for the experience (23 of 47) such as 8 of 19 on 3s.



Duke: In its first two activities the Red Demons organised competitors to 55.0 factors on 32.3 % capturing, such as 16.2 % from 3-point variety while pushing a normal of 17 turnovers. ... This was the 950th successive activity the Red Demons designed at least one 3-pointer. That's the fourth-longest expand in Department I record. ... Fight it out performed again without freshmen John Giles and Jayson Tatum who Krzyzewski has said will introduced along gradually as they rehabilitation from accidents.

Kansas: The Jayhawks were experiencing an AP No 1 group for the Twenty 4th efforts and the new since the 2014 Winners Traditional when they missing to The state of kentucky 72-40. They are 8-16 all-time against No. 1s. ... The Jayhawks' starting activity was a 103-99 extra time reduction to then-No. 11 In in Honolulu. "If you're going traveling 11,000 kilometers you might as well get a win," Self said.

POLL IMPLICATIONS:

Duke was No. 1 in the preseason study and the first voting of the frequent season. That will modify this 7 days with the reduction. Might was No. 3 in the preseason study, decreased to 7th with the reduction to In and the Jayhawks should progress up a several of locations with the win over Fight it out.

HELLO MELO:

Krzyzewski stepped onto the judge before the experience and went directly across to see Carmelo anthony to lakers Anthony of the New You are able to Knicks. The two distributed a hug and a have a good laugh. They mixed to win three Olympic silver awards for the U. s. Condition.

UP NEXT:

Duke: The Red Demons remain in the Northeast going to the Naismith Funeral Golf ball Area of Popularity Tip-Off at Uncasville, Burglary on Weekend and Weekend. They start with Penn Condition.

Kansas: The Jayhawks lastly get to try out in Allen Fieldhouse when they experience Siena on Weekend.