Philadelphia, PA

Freshman Rasheed Sulaimon tallied 20 points and Seth Curry added 17 as No. 2 Duke booked a place in the Sweet 16 with a 66-50 triumph over seventh seed Creighton Sunday at Wells Fargo Center.

Duke advanced to the Sweet 16 for the 27th time in program history and the 21st time under head coach Mike Krzyzewski. They will take on third seed Michigan State (27-8) Friday in Indianapolis.

Sulaimon shot 5-for-9 from the field and 8-for-10 from the charity stripe to become the first Duke neophyte to score 20 points in an NCAA Tournament game since Luol Deng on March 20, 2004 against Seton Hall.

"The coaches always tell me to stay aggressive and to look for my openings when they're there, not to force anything but just to make reads, and if I have the shot to take it with confidence," said Sulaimon, who tallied his fourth 20-point output this season.

Mason Plumlee had 10 points and five boards for the Blue Devils, who reached the 2,000th win plateau. They became only the fourth program in NCAA Division I history to reach the milestone, joining Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina.

Krzyzewski credited his team's outstanding defense for his Duke's 98th NCAA Tournament win and his 81st.

"The game was a heck of a game. Both teams played great defense. It was just so difficult to score. It's the best defense we've played all year," said Krzyzewski, who is 81-24 (.771) all-time in the NCAA Tournament, the second-highest winning percentage in NCAA history.

Duke's tight defense forced Creighton's leading scorer Doug McDermott miss 12 of 16 attempts. He scored 21 points but 12 of those came from the charity stripe.

McDermott was the only Creighton player in double digit while Gregory Echenique contributed nine points.

Creighton shot just 2-of-19 (.105) from three-point range, well below their season clip of .422 from beyond the arc.

Rasheed Sulaimon scored 21 points, Seth Curry scored had 17 and No. 2 seed Duke held off seventh-seeded Creighton 66-50 on Sunday to advance to the round of 16 for the fourth time in five years

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Sulaimon, Curry Power No. 2 Duke Past Creighton, into Sweet 16