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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Drew Hutchison and Kyle Drabek suffered similar elbow injuries two days apart midway through the 2012 major league season. Over a year later, the paths of both Toronto Blue Jays pitchers continue to converge as they recover from Tommy John surgery. Both right-handers saw action Wednesday night when the triple-A Buffalo Bisons took on the Rochester Red Wings. Hutchison started and allowed two runs over three innings while Drabek, who entered the game in the sixth inning, worked three scoreless frames and was credited with the win as the Bisons prevailed 8-3. The fact that the pair appeared in the same game seemed appropriate since they have shared the same clubhouses quite a bit during the rehab process. Drabek, recovering from his second Tommy John procedure, pitched in eight games with single-A Dunedin before moving on to double-A New Hampshire for a pair of starts. Hutchison made three appearances with Dunedin and two with New Hampshire, all but one of them coming within three days or less of a Drabek appearance for the same team. Hutchison and Drabek have been valuable sources of information for each other about the recovery process. "The first time I got to meet him was last year in spring training," said Drabek, who has a 2.56 earned-run average over 31 2/3 innings in 11 rehab appearances. "We became close since we were younger guys and we could relate to the same things in a way. "I ended up living with him through most of the rehab and got to know him real well." Drabek is quick to recall the dialogue he and Hutchison have shared. "After a surgery like this, theres no reason to come back the first full year and try to be a hero," Drabek said. "I think I did that my first time and it started getting real sore. I had to take a little bit of time off a I still ask him questions about it. If he has the same pain as I do and he finds the right thing to get it done, Id love to do (the same)." Unfortunately, Hutchison hasnt found the same level of sharpness as Drabek, posting a 5.09 ERA in 23 innings over seven minor league games. "Right now I need to focus on pitching as well as I can," said Hutchison, who has especially struggled in his two triple-A appearances. "Im not real happy with it. Its a matter of being more consistent and executing the way Im able to." Hutchison, who turns 23 next week, lasted 3 2/3 innings and allowed six runs in a rehab start for Buffalo last Friday. He was activated by Toronto the next day in order to be optioned to the Bisons. He quickly burned through 72 pitches and had seven of 15 batters reach base on Wednesday. "Too many pitches. I lost it a little bit in the second inning. It was frustrating," Hutchison said. "You have to execute quality pitches and thats what leads to good innings and then good outings. Thats what my focus is." The 25-year old Drabek, on the other hand, faced the minimum nine batters on Wednesday and had only one batter reach base on an error. "Im pretty much back to where I was," Drabek said. "I cant wait to see how it feels at 100 per cent, instead of 98 or whatever it feels like." Either way, the two have come a long way from those fateful June starts last year, when Drabek came out of a start against Washington on the 13th and Hutchison lasted just nine pitches against Philadelphia on the 15th. For now, while the two can ponder the possibility of joining the Blue Jays when active rosters expand in September, they also find themselves with an added role of helping the Bisons make the playoffs. Buffalo trails Rochester by two games in their division race and is half a game back in the hunt for the International Leagues only wild card playoff berth. The season ends on Labour Day weekend. "Every time I take the mound, I try to compete and do the best I can," Hutchison said. 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He was fantastic.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.Krzyzewski also praised Kennard, who established his career high for points in the previous game against Maine.Lukes played fantastic, Krzyzewski said. When you get 29 points on 16 shots -- what hed have, 35 against Maine? Really efficient. Hes come through for us beautifully. Hes starting to put it together a little bit.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.Down the stretch in that second half, every time they made a play, we did a great job of coming back and taking the air out of the ball, using 20 seconds and then getting up a good shot, Jefferson said. Whether it was Luke, whether it was Jayson, whether it was G (Grayson Allen) penetrating and finding somebody, our guys did an amazing job of never splintering.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.I thought Jayson came out tonight and did an amazing job of just letting it all out, Jefferson said. Luke is the smoothest player in the coountry.dddddddddddd. So playing with these guys has been so much fun so far.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.I think were really close if were not there, Kennard said. I think we really, really shared the ball well tonight on the offensive end because we have a lot of scorers. We have a lot of playmakers and a lot of scorers and the way we can share the ball, its pretty special. Not a lot of teams have that many scorers on a team and when we share the ball and get open shots, we can be really dangerous on the offensive end.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. Im glad he had the vision to get this thing started.GOOD DBoth teams played solid man-to-man defense and it was such a halfcourt game that there were only 18 fast-break points, 10 for Florida.FAMILY TIESKevin White, the athletic director at Duke, is the father of Florida coach Mike White.UP NEXTFlorida: The Gators head for a real rivalry game, Sunday at Florida State.Duke: On Saturday the Blue Devils travel to Las Vegas to meet UNLV.