The Milwaukee Bucks entered the 2015-16 season as a trendy pick to make the playoffs for the second straight season. As far as team performance goes, though, well, the bus never really left the station. The Bucks lost 21 of their first 33 games. They finished the season 33-49 (one more win than the New York… Read more »
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North Carolina, Duke Rank Among Best NCAA Champions Ever
PredictionMachine.com ranked all 77 NCAA basketball champions using the following criteria: To build our National Championship Power Rankings, we “played” every team against every other team, using strength of schedule adjusted statistics, 50,000 times each and ranked them by overall winning percentage of those games. How did ACC teams stack up against the field? #13… Read more »
Duke Loses, America Wins … but not why you probably think
Thank God that Duke lost, am I right? First, thanks for all of those page views you guys. But second, and most important point here, is that we only have to deal with another six or seven hours of fake outrage over Grayson Allen and Coach K. And in Allen’s case, we’ll likely never have… Read more »
Duke’s Grayson Allen, for many reasons, needs to head to the NBA
It’s time for Grayson to bounce. Head to the NBA, man. He doesn’t get the calls he deserves, and we’re cool with that because he plays for Duke. He’s white, too, so it’s okay for us to hate him. In fact, it’s advantageous for college basketball media if you hate him, so hate away. There’s… Read more »
Post Duke/UNC Sports Radio Bingo!
Immediately after Duke’s stunning 74-73 win over North Carolina, some of our media brethren, the sports radio folks, can essentially go into autopilot. Today is a day where you won’t really hear much from the winning team’s side, but the sky will be falling for the losing fanbase. We have put together a bingo game… Read more »
Duke at North Carolina: Keys to the Game
The Blue Devils come in as 5 point under dogs, but you can throw your Vegas lines out of the window with these two chess masters on the sidelines. Here’s a look at what UNC and Duke will look to do in order to impact the game: 1. Duke must close out on the wings… Read more »
Prop Bets for Duke/UNC Hoops
We are just a little over 24 hours away from the biggest college basketball game of the year…well until they play the second one in 3 weeks! While we await the official betting line for the Duke vs UNC game tomorrow night (we think it will be UNC -6ish), we’ve been able to put together… Read more »
Duke loses third straight, laments #FirstWorldProblems
Mike Krzyzewski talked about college basketball in his post-game press conference after last night’s loss to Syracuse, their third in a row, with the last two coming at home to unranked opponents. “It can be tremendous, and it can be cruel,” he commented. “Right now we’re in the cruel part.” Well, about that … @TheBenSwain… Read more »