Kon Knueppel had 18 points and five assists to help the No. 5 Duke Blue Devils to an 82-56 win over Georgia Tech in Atlantic Coast Conference play Saturday in Atlanta.

Khaman Maluach added 15 points and eight rebounds while Cooper Flagg – on his 18th birthday – scored 13 points for Duke (10-2, 2-0 ACC), which won its sixth straight game. Tyrese Proctor had 10 points for the Blue Devils, who shot 56.4 percent from the field and 40 percent on 3-pointers.

Baye Ndongo led Georgia Tech (5-7, 0-2) with 14 points, followed by Duncan Powell’s 13. The Yellow Jackets shot 36.2 percent from the field and 35.3 percent on 3-pointers. They lost four of five games.

After Lance Terry’s three-pointer cut Georgia Tech’s deficit to 43-39 on the Yellow Jackets’ first possession of the second half, Proctor’s three-pointer started the Blue Devils’ 14-0 run. The spurt was tempered with dunks from Maluach and Flagg to extend Duke’s lead to 57-39 with 13:58 left.

Javian McCollum’s 3-pointer cut Duke’s lead to 16 at 12:41 before baskets from Knueppel, Caleb Foster and Mason Gillis increased Duke’s lead to 66-44.

Isaiah Evans scored the final five points of the game, including a 3-pointer that capped Duke’s 26-point win.

After Naithan George’s layup gave the Yellow Jackets a 4-1 lead, Flagg’s dunk capped an 11-2 Duke run to make the score 14-11.

Powell’s 3-pointer, which cut the Yellow Jackets’ deficit to 17-11, was followed by Maliq Brown’s layup by three-pointers from Evans and Sion James, extending Duke’s lead to 25-11 with 11:12 left in the first Half time.

After Flagg’s 3-pointer increased Duke’s lead to 37-22, Georgia Tech responded with a 12-2 run, capped by Ndongo’s five straight points. Flagg and Terry traded baskets to end the first half as Duke led 41-36 at halftime.

Flagg and Knueppel led the Blue Devils with nine points each in the first half, while Ndongo’s Georgia Tech scored 12 points.

–Field level media