Kyrie Irving and Dereck Lively II, both former Duke Blue Devils basketball players, advanced to the Western Conference Finals on Saturday night.

The two, now teammates on the Dallas Mavericks, teamed up to defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder 117-116 on Saturday night. The win, Dallas’s fourth in six games over the Thunder, gave the Mavericks the victory in the best-of-seven series.

Irving scored 22 points on 9/23 shooting in the deciding game, adding two rebounds and three assists. Lively, for his part, put up a double-double with 12 points and 15 rebounds with three assists to boot.

Irving, who played 11 games for the Blue Devils in 2010-11 before being the first overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft, averaged 15.7 points and 6.2 assists for the series after he put up three 30-point games against the Los Angeles Clippers in round one.

Lively played 34 games as a freshman in 2022-23 before being taken 12th overall in last year’s draft. This was his second career playoff double-double after he had 11 points and 10 rebounds in the previous game of this series.

The two join Jayson Tatum as Blue Devils to reach the semifinals.