NEW YORK -- Amile Jefferson set career highs with 24 points and 15 rebounds to lead No. 5 Duke to an 84-74 victory over No. 21 Florida on Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic.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.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.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.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.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. 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DETROIT -- Almost every game is a productive one for the Columbus Blue Jackets these days -- whether they play well or not.Brandon Dubinsky scored a tiebreaking goal in the second period, and the surging Blue Jackets won their fifth straight game, 4-1 over the Detroit Red Wings on Friday night. Lukas Sedlak got his first NHL goal for the Blue Jackets, who have earned at least a point in 12 of their last 13 games.Sergei Bobrovsky had 32 saves for Columbus.I didnt think we were all that good, but Bob had another great game. You are going to need games like that and hes been giving them to us, Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella said. There hasnt been enough to our game lately. We need more grit and more checking.Cam Atkinson contributed a short-handed goal in the first period for Columbus, which is three points behind the first-place New York Rangers in the Metropolitan Division. Dylan Larkins power-play goal in the second was the only scoring of the night for the Red Wings.Sam Gagner scored into an empty net with 13.9 seconds remaining.Detroit goalie Petr Mrazek was pulled in favor of Jimmy Howard after Sedlaks goal made it 3-1 in the second.Mrazek was miffed after the goal that put the Blue Jackets up 2-1. He came well out of his crease to cover up a rebound, but there was no whistle, and he ended up playing the puck around the boards. A Columbus player was waiting and shot it back toward the net, and Dubinsky scored easily on a rebound.When that puck goes out that far, you cant cover the puck. Theres a little bit of grey area in the rule, but because its not in his sphere and it bounces further away, then at that point youre trying to play it and not covering an immediate rebound, Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. They were telling him to play iit, he played it, and it ended up in our net.ddddddddddddhere were also a few players tangling in the corner during that play, away from the action.The goalies got to move the puck there or hes going to get a penalty, Tortorella said. I have no idea what was happening in the corner ... but we got a good shot, a good tip and a rebound.Later in the second, Sedlak, playing his 23rd game of his first NHL season, backhanded in a rebound to chase Mrazek.That was a great feeling, he said. Ive had so many chances that I didnt finish that I didnt really believe it at first.Atkinson opened the scoring in the first, beating Mrazek with a wrist shot 22 seconds into Detroits power play. Anthony Mantha of the Red Wings hit the post later in the period when he broke in on Bobrovsky from the left.Detroit tied it in the second when Larkin scored from the left circle on a rebound.The Red Wings outshot Columbus 33-25, the first time in 10 games the Blue Jackets had been outshot.I thought from a process standpoint, we did tons of things really good, Blashill said. It was unfortunate the way that the final result was, but if we play like that over a long period of time, were going to get lots of results over and over again.Game notes Columbus added F Oliver Bjorkstrand to the roster on emergency recall from Cleveland of the AHL. ... Detroit removed F Andreas Athanasiou (knee) and D Alexey Marchenko (shoulder) from IR.UP NEXTBlue Jackets: Host the New York Islanders on Saturday night. Columbus is 2-1-3 in the second game of back-to-backs this season.Red Wings: Host Philadelphia on Sunday.---Follow Noah Trister at www.Twitter.com/noahtrister ' ' '