Duke's Roster

[Anon200440]

Duke loves Cal. His tournament failure with top talent the last decade takes some of the spotlight off how badly Duke has choked the last ten years

Might be delusional

 

[UKCowboys]

Might be delusional

If those Duke teams had been UK teams under Cal, Cal would have gotten crushed for never winning a Championship in a decade they had the best team 3-4 times. Fact

 

[Anon200440]

If those Duke teams had been UK teams under Cal, Cal would have gotten crushed for never winning a Championship in a decade they had the best team 3-4 times. Fact

Coming from an ohio state fb fan, the best team doesnt always win. Thank you.

 

[davtay]

Coming from an ohio state fb fan, the best team doesnt always win. Thank you.

THIS explains so much about you.

 

[SenseMaker_Cats]

Coming from an ohio state fb fan, the best team doesnt always win. Thank you.

Did your dad show you game tape of J.T. Barrett when you were 10 years old causing you to fall in love with the Buckeyes?

 

[Anon200440]

Did your dad show you game tape of J.T. Barrett when you were 10 years old causing you to fall in love with the Buckeyes?

No but I met JT playing cornhole at a osu bball game tho

 

[Anon200440]

THIS explains so much about you.

How

 

[davtay]

How

According to your previous posts, wins aren't as important as the "style" you play. You only want "stars" and high recruits. Among other things.

 

[Anon200440]

According to your previous posts, wins aren't as important as the "style" you play. You only want "stars" and high recruits. Among other things.

Osu literally won the natty 2 years ago and always competes while having a fun playstyle

I just wish Kentucky could do that again

 

[UKCowboys]

Coming from an ohio state fb fan, the best team doesnt always win. Thank you.

Yall didn't have the best team last year fella

 

[Anon200440]

Yall didn't have the best team last year fella

Didn't say that, but being a osu fb fan you see that the best team doesn't always win, but talent USUALLY wins in the end

games last year where we didnt have a ton of energy but end up winning by 40+

 

[ScWildcat3]

Basketball title is hardest of the big 3 in college to win.

 

[RunninRichie]

That’s all ANY duke fan does! Every.single.last.one! I’ve never witnessed a duke fan NOT use arbitrary timelines. Ever.

UNC fans also and UCONN. Unc fans love saying "since 2000 we have 3 titles to your 1". They back that up 5 years and they're tied with UK. So they slash off the 1995 and say "this century". It's funny.

 

[BookofMormon]

Duke loves Cal. His tournament failure with top talent the last decade takes some of the spotlight off how badly Duke has choked the last ten years

This doc is fairly interesting. Not sure if it's AI narrating, but a really good storyteller. It walks through the entire saga of Duke and how the brand began and built over time.



The doc walks through how K made a conscious effort to move from the standard K multi year kid, to the OAD around 2011, which started with Kyrie. If you look at his classes, they changed drastically. They were bigger and featured the NBA profiles. Almost half of K's McD AA's came after 2011. This coincides almost exactly with a couple things:

Calipari swinging from Memphis to Kentucky. Calipari was always an amazing recruiter, but you wonder with the UK brand behind him, if it scared K a bit into realizing he needed to go after the NBA stuff, not just the Jon Scheyer's of the world.

Was also after UNC won their second title in 4 years. That's always a lot of pressure on Tobacco road.

Self also won his in 2008.

That juncture between 2005 and 2010 was an interesting one. Cal to UK, Roy winning title at UNC, KU winning it's first title in ages. The Blue Blood heat was on. Calhoun was trying to keep up and it sank him into suspension and parole.

Wild when you look at it - since 2004, there have been 21 National Champions, 17 of those amongst 6 schools. (Kansas 2, Duke 2, UNC 3, Nova 2, UConn 5, Florida 3). UK/Louisville have their one each and then a couple random one off's: Virginia and Baylor. It really isn't that easy to win these things and a pretty exclusive club.

 

[Neal Orac]