There will be a lot of explanations for why Duke didn't win, but let me break it down to something basic: they lost because they didn't stay true to who they are.
Duke's true colors are blue and white, yet the uniforms they wore in their losing effort had black in the piping and lettering. The use of black with Duke is forced and it looks awful.
Unnatural addition of black to your uniforms = suckiness. See, New York Knicks.
Duke is out.
Now people are going to go on and on about that -- specifically what a great finish it was. That is bull!
NEITHER one of those teams played defense in their final offensive possession. Duke sprints down and gets an easy layup to tie (anyone care to put up a hand, kids?) and then the Dukies let VCU hit the game winning shot practically uncontested at the top of the key.
That's how these teams play it out?!? Don't believe the hype -- that was not a great finish, it was a pathetic one.
CBS just cut away from the very close Duke game to go back to MSU-MU because there was an injury in the Duke game. The last thing I could hear the announcer say was "...he's bleeding from the eye," right before they cut back to garbage time in the Marquette-Michigan State game.
Bleeding from the eye?!? Isn't that the type of thing that they zoom in on and then show you replays from 27 different directions?
The MSU-MU game has been slogging along with MSU holding a 13 point or so lead for pretty much the entire second half. There are just over two minutes left in the game.
Duke and VCU are currently tied. Let's see if CBS sicks with MSU-MU or switches away before the buzzer.
