Duke vs. Gonzaga

BassProCat

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I love the certainty some of you posted with regarding Zaga taking the Dukies out.

You'd think Duke wasn't being coached by the game's best coach in the modern era, playing with a potential #1 overall pick, with a team that has all the pieces for a serious run.

Coach K is taking home #6 this year. The best thing we can all do is proclaim it and add to the pressure cooker that will come with them being the #1 team going into the tournament.
Ehh all the pieces?! Roach is a weakness. You need good guard play in March.
 

BassProCat

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There is truth to this. Can you imagine if K had picked up someone like Grady. Obviously, a cold shooting night could stomp K's dream of #6, but I think the refs bail them out regardless.
You swap out Roach for Wheeler then I’d be real worried about Puke. I honestly think the lack of good PG play will bite Puke in the butt come tourney time.
 

Son_Of_Saul

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You swap out Roach for Wheeler then I’d be real worried about Puke. I honestly think the lack of good PG play will bite Puke in the butt come tourney time.
I hope you're right. The thing that could nix that weakness, and likely will nix it, is the easy path that is imminently waiting for Duke. Remember that path they were gifted in 2015 where 4/5 of the most talented teams were on UK's side of the bracket? I expect something like that this year.
 
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BassProCat

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I hope you're right. The thing that could nix that weakness, and likely will nix it, is the easy path that is imminently waiting for Duke. Remember that path they were gifted in 2015 where 4/5 of the most talented teams were on UK's side of the bracket? I expect something like that this year.
Haha this is true. Gold paved path to FF.
 

TortElvisII

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The one thing I now believe is that Kentucky will be the two seed in Duke's bracket in the east. If Kentucky has a great year. The rematch in Philadelphia.
 
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UKWildcats1987

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How any UK fan can pull for Duke is beyond me?

I didnt pull for them. I woke up this morning and read about the game from you guys. College basketball is too boring other than uk. I hate duke. I just got tired if the Gonzaga storyline last season and glad we don't have to hear about it this year. For Gonzaga best thing that could happen to th come March. Less pressure.
 

Patriot202

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Duke just looked a lot better last night & prepared. Felt like Duke was up at least 10+ how they were playing yet it was neck and neck.
 

Cawood86_rivals

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I didnt pull for them. I woke up this morning and read about the game from you guys. College basketball is too boring other than uk. I hate duke. I just got tired if the Gonzaga storyline last season and glad we don't have to hear about it this year. For Gonzaga best thing that could happen to th come March. Less pressure.
YOur choice dude. The frauds winning doesn't help UK at all. This is the big fraud's last season. The more they win, the less likely they will be allowed to lose. Gonzaga is not a threat to the futre of UK.
 

carbonlib23

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Remember that path they were gifted in 2015 where 4/5 of the most talented teams were on UK's side of the bracket?
and yet, both teams wound up playing Wisc....one team, lost, the other team won... expecting a stronger team to take out your hated opponent BEFORE you meet the common foe doesn't carry much weight.... Virtually the same in 2010......WVA beat UK, then got smoked by duke...
 

Gassy_Knowls

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YOur choice dude. The frauds winning doesn't help UK at all. This is the big fraud's last season. The more they win, the less likely they will be allowed to lose. Gonzaga is not a threat to the futre of UK.

The ESPN and NCAA agencies created K. The Manchurian Coach.. That's a fact. K's success was manufactured and it's not coincidental that ESPN and K at duke started roughly at the same time

K is terrible. Given and never earned.
 
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carbonlib23

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The ESPN and NCAA agencies created K. The Manchurian Coach.. That's a fact. K's success was manufactured and it's not coincidental that ESPN and K at duke started roughly at the same time

K is terrible. Given and never earned.
soooooo, no moon landing either?
 

carbonlib23

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The ESPN and NCAA agencies created K. The Manchurian Coach.. That's a fact. K's success was manufactured and it's not coincidental that ESPN and K at duke started roughly at the same time

K is terrible. Given and never earned.
soooooo, no moon landing either? earth is flat?
 

STL_Cat

Heisman
Dec 4, 2011
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I don't want to hear about Gonzaga possible going undefeated all season. Duke will lose in due time. My main reasoning

I didnt pull for them. I woke up this morning and read about the game from you guys. College basketball is too boring other than uk. I hate duke. I just got tired if the Gonzaga storyline last season and glad we don't have to hear about it this year. For Gonzaga best thing that could happen to th come March. Less pressure.
You typed the words “Glad Duke won.” No amount of words you type after that will make that sentence acceptable.
 
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TortElvisII

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and yet, both teams wound up playing Wisc....one team, lost, the other team won... expecting a stronger team to take out your hated opponent BEFORE you meet the common foe doesn't carry much weight.... Virtually the same in 2010......WVA beat UK, then got smoked by duke...
Wisconsin players had a goal all year of beating Kentucky. The championship game was a letdown. I'm not a psychologist so I can't explain it.
 

Pickle_Rick

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I watched most of the game. Banchero is the real deal, and by tourney time could pull a Danny Manning and just carry Duke to the 'ship. I didn't compare him to AD because AD didn't have to score, Banchero does. If Banchero has an off night, or gets hurt, a great Duke team becomes merely a good Duke team. Gonzaga's goffy assed white bois especially Holmgren were protected all night by the refs.
 

TortElvisII

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soooooo, no moon landing either? earth is flat?
Are you denying that K s actually a hologram? Everyone knows he is a hologram of a 15th century vampire from Romania.

Those videos of him crouching down in pain are not vertigo as claimed. Either the sun came through a window or someone was wearing a cross in the crowd.
 

BigCat241

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I watched most of the game. Banchero is the real deal, and by tourney time could pull a Danny Manning and just carry Duke to the 'ship. I didn't compare him to AD because AD didn't have to score, Banchero does. If Banchero has an off night, or gets hurt, a great Duke team becomes merely a good Duke team. Gonzaga's goffy assed white bois especially Holmgren were protected all night by the refs.
To be fair, Banchero scored 1 point and was “hurt” the 2nd half and Duke still won
 

Cowtown Cat

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Aug 23, 2015
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duke was the better team......they'd already beaten wiscy at their own house earlier in the year...
Just be glad y’all got a very friendly whistle. If not for that, you get beat against Wisconsin. Also, be glad they put the screws to UK the game prior and our coach took the damn air out of the ball.
 
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Cowtown Cat

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well, except the score....
Everyone in the country saw that the ball went out of bounds off Winslow. The refs even reviewed the play. Unbelievable the BS duke gets away with. Wisconsin got the whistle against duke that Kentucky got against Wisconsin two nights prior.
 
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