Duke basketball's dominant defense helped the Blue Devils blow by Alabama and into the Final Four. Here's how Khaman Maluach and Duke got it done.

And his former player, assistant coach and handpicked successor, Jon Scheyer, got the country's top recruit Cooper Flagg to come to Duke — then retooled the Blue Devils around him and got them back to the Final Four in just his third year in charge.

The top-seeded Duke Blue Devils took the next step in their seasonlong quest Saturday night, defeating the East's No. 2 seed, the Alabama Crimson Tide, 85-65, at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.,