NEW YORK -- Almost everybody in Madison Square Garden was impressed with the game Amile Jefferson had for No. 5 Duke.Nobody appreciated it more than Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski.Jefferson set career highs with 24 points and 15 rebounds to lead Duke to an 84-74 victory over No. 21 Florida on Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic.Amile played one of the great games, Krzyzewski said. God bless him. He was fantastic.Luke Kennard scored 29 points and freshman Jayson Tatum added 22 for the Blue Devils (9-1), whose only loss was to Kansas on this same court in the Champions Classic in November.Krzyzewski also praised Kennard, who established his career high for points in the previous game against Maine.Lukes played fantastic, Krzyzewski said. When you get 29 points on 16 shots -- what hed have, 35 against Maine? Really efficient. Hes come through for us beautifully. Hes starting to put it together a little bit.Twice in the final 8 minutes the Gators (7-2) got within seven points but both times Kennard scored to hold off Florida, once with a 3-pointer and again with a long layup off a steal.Down the stretch in that second half, every time they made a play, we did a great job of coming back and taking the air out of the ball, using 20 seconds and then getting up a good shot, Jefferson said. Whether it was Luke, whether it was Jayson, whether it was G (Grayson Allen) penetrating and finding somebody, our guys did an amazing job of never splintering.The 6-foot-9 Jefferson, who also blocked four shots, was 11 for 14 from the field. Kennard went 11 of 16, including 5 for 7 from 3-point range.Kevaughn Allen led Florida with 21 points, and John Egbunu had nine points and 12 rebounds.They were a better team tonight, Florida coach Mike White said. I thought our guys were really jacked up for the opportunity. I thought Amile Jefferson was amazing, just absolutely amazing.Duke closed the first half with an 8-2 run -- Jefferson and Tatum had four points each -- for a 41-31 lead.Allen, Dukes preseason All-America, had an off night shooting (2 for 10, including 1 for 5 on 3s) but he had eight assists to go with his six points.I thought Jayson came out tonight and did an amazing job of just letting it all out, Jefferson said. Luke is the smoothest player in the country. So playing with these guys has been so much fun so far.BIG PICTUREFlorida: In the first eight games of the season, six different players led the Gators in scoring. ... White was 3 years old when Krzyzewski started coaching at Duke. ... Because of renovations at the OConnell Center on the Florida campus, the Gators wont play their first home game until Dec. 21 against Arkansas-Little Rock. All their games are either on the road or at neutral sites until then.Duke: Krzyzewski is 29-10 at Madison Square Garden as Duke coach. ... The Blue Devils lead the all-time series with Florida 13-4. ... Jefferson was coming off a career-high 20 points against Maine. He had 14 rebounds four times. ... Duke had five double-figure scorers in seven of its nine games coming in. The Blue Devils had three against Florida, all over 20 points.I think were really close if were not there, Kennard said. I think we really, really shared the ball well tonight on the offensive end because we have a lot of scorers. We have a lot of playmakers and a lot of scorers and the way we can share the ball, its pretty special. Not a lot of teams have that many scorers on a team and when we share the ball and get open shots, we can be really dangerous on the offensive end.JIMMY VThroughout both games, videos were shown during timeouts featuring cancer survivors or those whose life has been affected by the disease. The Garden also showed Jim Valvanos speech at the ESPYs when he announced the formation of the V Foundation for Cancer Research. The crowd of 15,294 broke into a prolonged round of applause when it ended with Valvanos now famous Dont give up. Dont ever give up.I miss him, Krzyzewski said of Valvano. Im glad he had the vision to get this thing started.GOOD DBoth teams played solid man-to-man defense and it was such a halfcourt game that there were only 18 fast-break points, 10 for Florida.FAMILY TIESKevin White, the athletic director at Duke, is the father of Florida coach Mike White.UP NEXTFlorida: The Gators head for a real rivalry game, Sunday at Florida State.Duke: On Saturday the Blue Devils travel to Las Vegas to meet UNLV. Soccer Mexico Jerseys . The visitors took a deserved lead in the 16th minute with midfielder Yohan Cabaye curling the ball beyond Adrian from inside the penalty area. White Mexico Jerseys . Datsyuk will miss Tuesdays game against New Jersey and could be sidelined longer, while Cleary will likely miss at least the next three games. 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Brown hit a pair of homers, Erik Kratz and Ryan Howard also had solo shots to back Kyle Kendrick and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Boston Red Sox 4-3 Wednesday night. Kendrick (5-3) allowed two runs and four hits in six innings, helping the Phillies win their second straight against the Red Sox to get within one game of .500. They havent had an even record since they were 6-6. Brown is doing his best to get them back there. He hit his fourth homer in three nights and leads the Phillies with 13, including an NL-high 10 in May. "Im seeing it pretty well," Brown said. "Im getting good pitches to hit. After the first at-bat, I swung at a bad pitch, I told myself to wait for one to handle." Antonio Bastardo pitched the seventh, Mike Adams struck out two in a perfect eighth and Jonathan Papelbon finished for his 11th save in 11 tries, including the second in two nights against his old team. Papelbon allowed an RBI single to Jacoby Ellsbury, snapping his scoreless at 19 1-3 innings. But with runners on second and third, he retired Daniel Nava on a grounder to first to end it. The fiery Papelbon enthusiastically pumped his fist twice after the last out. "A real hard-fought game," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "The opportunities were there. They made pitches with men on base." Nava hit a solo shot for AL East-leading Boston, which got a third straight quality start from John Lackey (3-5), who gave up six hits and three runs in six innings, but raised his ERA to 2.96. The teams split two games at Fenway Park before moving their home-and-home, four-game set to Philadelphia. Brown and Kratz hit consecutive homers in the fourth to put the Phillies up 3-1. Brown then lined one out in the eighth off Koji Uehara to make it 4-2. That extra run proved important. "Hes very confident right now," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. Brown had failed to live up to expectations in previous stints with the Phillies. He had an excellent spring and it has carried over. "Just his mind-set, going out there swinging, Im not surprised by it at all," Howard said. Howard lined an opposite-field homer to left in the second to tie it at 1. He hadnt gone deep since May 7 against San Francisco, a streak of 61 homerless at-bats before hhitting his seventh.dddddddddddd Nava hit an 0-2 pitch high off the right-field foul pole in the sixth. Kendrick worked out of jam later that inning, making a nice grab on Mike Carps sharp one-hopper to start a 1-6-3 double play. Lackey got out of a first-and-third, one-out jam in the sixth by getting Freddy Galvis to ground into a double play. "I just had to keep making pitches and hope our guys hit a couple out," Lackey said. The Phillies wasted another chance in the seventh when Howard struck out with one out and the bases loaded and John Mayberry Jr. popped out. The Red Sox went up 1-0 in the first on Dustin Pedroias sacrifice fly. Ellsbury led off with a triple on a ball that was misplayed by Ben Revere in centre. Revere broke in a couple steps and had no chance to recover on the drive that landed in front of the warning track. Pedroia acknowledged before the game that hes been playing despite sustaining a complete tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his left thumb diving into first base in the season opener. "I didnt expect this to come out," Pedroia said. "As players here, we all want our medical stuff to stay private. I kind of feel uncomfortable talking about it." Pedroia is hitting .332 and has no errors while playing in all 54 games, so the injury clearly hasnt hurt his performance. Shane Victorino, a two-time All-Star centre fielder and key member of the Phillies World Series championship team in 2008, received a loud standing ovation following a video tribute. Victorino, who is on the disabled list, was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers last July. NOTES: Injured Phillies 2B Chase Utley (oblique) and C Carlos Ruiz (hamstring) are expected to return by the middle of June, according to general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. "Theyre both improving," Amaro said. "Were being cautious with these injuries and thinking about the long term." ... Brown and Kratz have two of Philadelphias five sets of back-to-back homers this season. ... The Phillies had a season-high four stolen bases. ... The Red Sox recalled OF Jackie Bradley Jr. from Triple-A Pawtucket to take RHP Alex Wilsons roster spot. ... Navas seven homers are a career-high. ... Franklin Morales faces Phillies rookie Jonathan Pettibone (3-0, 3.21) on Thursday night. Jon Lester has been moved to Friday night against the New York Yankees and Clay Buchholz may not start until Sunday. Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Jerseys From China Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys ' ' '