"Hopefully we'll get another chance to play them down the road."
Duke opened both halves with 11-4 runs. The first one enabled the Blue Devils to take control early, and the latter provided Duke with an 11-point lead after Maryland closed to 42-38 at halftime.
"When they get a lead it's hard to come back," Maryland guard D.J. Strawberry said. "They're the No. 2 team in the country. You have to do everything right to beat them."
Redick, who had 35 points in a win at North Carolina on Tuesday, began the second half with a 3-pointer and Williams added a layup. It was 49-42 before a jumper by Redick and a dunk by Williams put the Blue Devils up by 11.
Maryland spent the rest of the game trying to close the gap. But every time the Terrapins made progress -- raising the noise level of the sellout crowd -- Duke had an answer.
It was 64-54 before Williams made a layup and Redick sank a 3 for a 15-point lead. Then, after the Terrapins closed to 83-75, Sean Dockery hit a 3-pointer for the Blue Devils.
Maryland never cut the gap below seven points after that.
Before the game, Gary Williams was recognized as the winningest men's basketball coach in Maryland history during a ceremony that included the man whose record he broke, Lefty Driesell.
Williams then set out to earn his 350th win with his alma mater against a team that had beaten him 29 of 40 times during his 17-year stint at Maryland.
Duke hit its first four shots, including three 3-pointers, to take an 11-4 lead. Maryland closed to 13-12 before Williams scored on an alley-oop and Greg Paulus added a 3 for a six-point lead.
The Blue Devils did all this without a contribution from Redick, who finally made his first basket with 13:37 left in the half, a 3-pointer that made it 21-14.
Minutes later, Williams scored five points, Redick made two layups and Paulus added a 3-pointer in a 13-4 spurt that put Duke up 36-24.
The Terrapins went nearly 5 minutes without a basket before Gist made a layup early in a 12-4 run that made it 40-36.
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