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RalphDaltonFan

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They gotta go to Ohio State next week I think. They aren’t gonna go undefeated. Someone will clip them.
What a disaster by the scheduling of both leagues. How does Duke not play Purdue? Ohio State will lose to Duke by 20-30 pts.

ACC is so awful this year, I could see Duke winning 90% of their conference games by 10+
 
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Patriot202

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Correct. When it is Duke vs UNC, records go out the window. That’s why it’s the greatest rivalry in sports.
In all sports ? Nah never. I’ll give you the edge in college basketball though. Loserville tards are just poop 💩 compared to us in every way shape and form.
 

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Not when the #1 team in the country — featuring a Player of the Year Favorite and a Top-2 pick who are your two post players — are in foul trouble the entire night and aren’t allowed the same amount of contact on the defensive end.
Cant speak for the Chet fouls as I dont really remember them, but Timme had at least 3 fouls due to him being a dumbass, not due to bad calls.
 

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Closet Duke fan alert. That said, Duke was just a little better than Gonzaga tonight. That could all change in March, as Duke teams usually peak at the beginning of the year. Congrats to your Dukies tonight; have a beer with your boy, Dickie V.
Haha You caught me red-handed man.
 

justanotherguy505

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Haha You caught me red-handed man.

Just screwin' with ya; I don't hate Duke as much as most, but I don't want them to win a title either since they're too close to Kentucky (they would be within two titles, and have a 6-3 run in the last 32 years).
 

Cowtown Cat

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What a disaster by the scheduling of both leagues. How does Duke not play Purdue? Ohio State will lose to Duke by 20-30 pts.

ACC is so awful this year, I could see Duke winning 90% of their conference games by 10+
I don’t think they’ll lose that badly. I’m not even sure duke wins that game. One thing I do know, duke won’t go undefeated. They don’t rebound that well, oddly. They don’t have very good shooters. They have holes for sure. Not that deep either, especially in the backcourt.
 

CB3UK

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I caught the tail end of the game after Apple Cup wrapped up. Duke looked like they were a lot better than when they played us. Not really sure what I take away from that....I definitely felt like our ceiling was much higher than we showed v them. Just really have no way to tell with this garbage schedule we're playing. Both the Zags and Duke looked pretty high level tonight from the part I saw. We still have a ways to go. I hate our schedule, but Cal HAS made it out so we should steadily improve and keep winning on our way to March.
 

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Great basketball game and had the feel of the epic 2011 Cats vs UNC game (though not quite).

Pretty great play from both sides, particularly on the offensive side. Neither side really got into a sick hyper-lockdown defense set, but the frenetic pace kind of prevented that.

Game was reffed pretty well I thought, and I think the posters claiming it was very biased in Duke's favor were either drunk on bourbon and Dook-hate, or are fairly clueless.

And besides just letting them play, the game just flowed without non-stop delays, reviews, etc. Made it a lot more entertaining.

Gonzaga's turnovers did them in despite the rebounding differential.

And Timme just couldn't clutch up when the game was on the line. His turnovers and missed late game shots put Duke over the edge when it mattered.

The last Gonzaga possession was a complete disaster. They did the one thing you absolutely cannot do in a two possession game, which is burn your clock.
 
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Duke and Zags are Final Four teams, Baylor looks like they haven’t missed a step despite the players they lost, don’t know about the fourth team depends on the draw. Things could change somebody always gets hot at tourney time. I don’t think it will be us, we simply don’t shoot the ball as well as everyone hoped. Grady is a bust so far, Ty ,Ty has mechanics issues, Wheeler despite his obvious talents is not a threat from 3 . The Frederick injury could end up dooming us in the tourney.
 

RunninRichie

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Duke and Zags are Final Four teams, Baylor looks like they haven’t missed a step despite the players they lost, don’t know about the fourth team depends on the draw. Things could change somebody always gets hot at tourney time. I don’t think it will be us, we simply don’t shoot the ball as well as everyone hoped. Grady is a bust so far, Ty ,Ty has mechanics issues, Wheeler despite his obvious talents is not a threat from 3 . The Frederick injury could end up dooming us in the tourney.
Grady is a bust? How?
 
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Closet Duke fan alert. That said, Duke was just a little better than Gonzaga tonight. That could all change in March, as Duke teams usually peak at the beginning of the year. Congrats to your Dukies tonight; have a beer with your boy, Dickie V.
Dude stop
 

TCurtis75_rivals88839

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He is not the shooter everyone predicted: Shooting from 3 was the one thing everyone predicted would be our teams strength, right now who do you have faith can knock one down, as yet I haven’t seen them
Really?!?! This statement is almost as dumb as the Wheeler isn’t the guy thread. Grady is shooting 46% from 3. As at team, we are shooting 35% from three which would have been higher if not for poor shooting the last 2 games.

I’m not sure what more you could ask for.
 

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This early, I say:
Zags a #1 seed lock
Duke a #1 seed lock
Purdue a #1 seed lock (MSU, Michigan, Illinois weaker than expected)
UK, UCLA, Baylor, Nova, UT, etc. competing for the final #1 seed.
 
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Seth_C

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Duke and Zags are Final Four teams, Baylor looks like they haven’t missed a step despite the players they lost, don’t know about the fourth team depends on the draw. Things could change somebody always gets hot at tourney time. I don’t think it will be us, we simply don’t shoot the ball as well as everyone hoped. Grady is a bust so far, Ty ,Ty has mechanics issues, Wheeler despite his obvious talents is not a threat from 3 . The Frederick injury could end up dooming us in the tourney.
Zero chance Duke and Gonzaga are both in the FF. Won’t happen.
 

howercat

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No team has a chance this year against Duke and the officials. Feels like 2015 all over.
Best thing you can do is put a big chunk on dook to win it all. Dook is 9:1 last I checked. $1000 on dook = $9000 payout. It will sure take the sting off when the stripes gift K #6.
 

GoBigBlue1224

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I don’t think people realize the potential of the team we have lol. Duke, Gonzaga, Baylor and Purdue will not want to see this UK team in the tournament.
 

JoeBeeHall

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Best thing you can do is put a big chunk on dook to win it all. Dook is 9:1 last I checked. $1000 on dook = $9000 payout. It will sure take the sting off when the stripes gift K #6.
That is an excellent idea but I am only betting 2 dollars as every team I bet on loses.
 

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Nemhard was not himself tonight and that was the difference. Zags win the rematch in the FF
Cant speak for the Chet fouls as I dont really remember them, but Timme had at least 3 fouls due to him being a dumbass, not due to bad calls.
Timme and Nemhard played really bad last night compared to their usual
Game. Not sure how much Duke had to do with it, especially Timme.
 

Sparkaces

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Duke and Zags are Final Four teams, Baylor looks like they haven’t missed a step despite the players they lost, don’t know about the fourth team depends on the draw. Things could change somebody always gets hot at tourney time. I don’t think it will be us, we simply don’t shoot the ball as well as everyone hoped. Grady is a bust so far, Ty ,Ty has mechanics issues, Wheeler despite his obvious talents is not a threat from 3 . The Frederick injury could end up dooming us in the tourney.
Dang man I wouldn’t call Grady a bust yet lol, the pro scouts seem to like TYTY’s shot. I think Collins and Hopkins improvement are the key to UK, the guard play will be there.
 
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Sparkaces

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And it's not so much the number of fouls but when those fouls are called.
Duke offense in the 2nd half was basically Keels put his head down and drive and hope the ref called it, there was also some really bad no calls when Gonzaga was on Offense
 
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This early, I say:
Zags a #1 seed lock
Duke a #1 seed lock
Purdue a #1 seed lock (MSU, Michigan, Illinois weaker than expected)
UK, UCLA, Baylor, Nova, UT, etc. competing for the final #1 seed.
Smashcat I hope you are right at UK competing for a #1 seed. But what I’ve seen so far i see us at a 2 seed or maybe even a 3 seed. Really looking forward to us playing better competition in the future and get a better feel for where we are.
 
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Sparkaces

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True, but my point is based on Duke playing in the ACC and the Zags a local church league.

Someone will trip the Devils up in conf. play.
Yeah, about everything went right for Duke last night and they still barely won. When the white kid hit the bank three for them I figured it was their night 😂
 
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