Monday through Saturday, Duke is perfect. Sundays are an entirely different story.

The Blue Devils suffered their third straight Sunday defeat as Byron Wells sank a 3-pointer with 3.6 seconds left in overtime to give Florida State an 89-88 victory at Tallahassee, Fla.Duke has now lost on successive Sundays to Georgia Tech, Virginia and the Seminoles. The Blue Devils don't play another Sunday game until Feb. 21 at North Carolina State, and they close the year with Sunday games against UCLA and North Carolina.

This Sunday's swoon didn't seem to faze coach Mike Krzyzewski, who said he was happy that his team played as well as it did.

"I don't judge things based on wins and losses. We judge things based on effort," he said. "I thought our effort was outstanding. I'm not going to fault my kids."

Florida State had set up its final play for Sam Cassell, but he couldn't shake loose and Wells wound up shooting from deep in the left corner with 6-foot-11 Cherokee Parks' hand in his face. The ball rimmed around once and kissed off the backboard before falling through.

Duke (13-3, 3-3 ACC) now has more losses this season than it had all of last year when it was 34-2 and won the national championship.

Florida State (13-5, 5-1) is a good bet to be back in the Top 25 when the Associated Press releases its poll at 4:30 p.m. MST.

In other games Sunday, No. 2 Indiana beat No. 24 Ohio State 96-69, No. 3 North Carolina beat No. 10 Seton Hall 70-66 and California defeated No. 23 UCLA 104-82.

No. 2 Indiana 96

No. 24 Ohio State 69

At Bloomington, Ind., Calbert Cheaney scored 27 points and sank three shots in a row to ignite a 19-2 second-half run that helped Indiana (17-2, 6-0 Big Ten) stretch an eight-point halftime lead to as much as 32. Ohio State (9-5, 2-3) made only one basket during a seven-minute stretch of the second half.

No. 3 North Carolina 70

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No. 10 Seton Hall 66

At East Rutherford, N.J., George Lynch scored a season-high 25 points as the Tar Heels (16-1) won their eighth straight in a defensive battle. North Carolina forced Seton Hall (15-3) into a season-high 23 turnovers and held Terry Dehere to 10 points - almost 13 below his average.

California 104, No. 23 UCLA 82

At Los Angeles, Alfred Grigsby and Brian Hendrick scored 23 points each and California (9-4, 3-2 Pac-10) used a 17-0 run late in the first half to beat UCLA (12-5, 3-3). The 104 points was the most Cal ever had in a Pac-10 game.

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