The bright lights haven’t bothered Jared McCain.

While other hyped freshmen have struggled in the NCAA Tournament, particularly the Kentucky one-and-done prospects, Duke’s young guard has thrived.

On Friday night, he played a key role in the fourth-seeded Blue Devils pulling away late from Vermont. Sunday, he was even better.

Duke’s lone freshman starter, McCain put on a memorable shooting display in the first half, delivering the knockout punch in his team’s 93-55 rout of No. 12 James Madison in a South Region second-round game at Barclays Center.

His eight made 3-pointers set a program record in an NCAA Tournament game. Shane Battier and JJ Redick share the regular season mark with nine.

“It’s the best feeling in the world when you know the work that you put in is showing up on the court, especially in such a big game like this, to go to the Sweet 16,” McCain said. “For these types of games, you just want to win and I want to do everything I can to win.”

The ACC powerhouse will meet the winner of No. 1 Houston/No. 9 Texas A&M in the Sweet 16 on Friday in Dallas.

McCain sank his first six 3-point attempts and scored 30 points, powering the rout. After his sixth trey pushed the Blue Devils lead to 24 late in the first half, he shrugged his shoulders, a la Michael Jordan in the 1992 NBA Finals, as he jogged downcourt.

“I don’t know what I did out there, to be honest with you,” he said. “I’m pretty sure that’s what I hit. … I wasn’t really conscious out there.”

By halftime, he had 22 points — just three fewer than James Madison — and Duke had as many made 3-pointers (eight) as the Dukes had made field goals (eight).

Overall, Duke went a blistering 14 of 28 from deep against the Dukes, who entered the contest sixth in the country defending the 3 (29.1 percent). As a team, the Blue Devils shot 52.4 percent from the field. Tyrese Proctor had 18 points and five assists, Jeremy Roach notched 15 points and six assists and Kyle Filipowski added 14 points, five rebounds and four assists. Terrence Edwards Jr. led JMU with 13 points.

After a second-round loss last March in coach Jon Scheyer’s first season as Mike Krzyzewski’s replacement, Duke was determined to avoid a similar fate.

It talked about that motivation from that defeat to Tennessee after beating Vermont, and it certainly played like a team with something to prove.

This isn’t a team of freshmen stars. Five of Duke’s top seven scorers were part of last year’s team, most notably Roach and sophomores Mark Mitchell, Filipowski and Proctor.

“Obviously, Jared wasn’t here last year to experience what we went through, but none of us forgot about what happened with Tennessee in the second round,” Filipowski said. “I think that just added a little bit more fire to us, to the returning guys, and we knew it was going to be a similar type of game. I think we learned our lesson playing last year. We didn’t want to repeat that at all.”