Duke Post Game Thread

[ArtTheFan]

Crushing Duke's spirits is WHAT WE DO!

I think they won't let us join the ACC anytime soon... 🤣

 

[HCCForever]

Excuse me.

Mr Murray?

Yeah, Boston can wait.

Pack your bags for scenic Indianapolis.

We can safely say that the team was not distracted during Luke’s recruitment and negotiations.

 

[my2cents]

That shot ended all conversations about us not being a blue blood program.
We won the bracket that had UCLA, Kansas, Mich. State , St. Johns and Duke.
With us beat 3 of them.

What a win.!!!!

 

[Inyatkin]

I'm sure it's probably already been posted but another angle inside the arena

I will watch every angle. If 30,000 people upload videos of that shot I’ll watch 30,000 of them

 

[Mister P]

 

[rich1122]

Leitner curse lifted.

 

[noelle]

Crazy. Duke beat us 44 to 29 in the 1st half. We beat them 44 to 28 in the 2nd half 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

legendary adjustment game from the staff. they completely figured out duke

 

[DW1361]

I still can’t believe it!! It feels like we won the championship, but it was just Duke. Two more to go !!!!!

 

[Ripper32]

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Yes the day my hate for Duke and Christian laetner was cemented. None of us have ever forgotten that day. But this day makes it hurt a lot less

 

[businesslawyer]

Malachi freakin’ Smith. What an absolute tournament from that dawg.

Reminiscent of Rudy Johnson in the stupid loss to Florida in what, ‘94? When the whole team was too fraidy scared to shoot, someone from the bench whose job isn’t scoring comes in and scores enough to keep them in the game before others get their nerve back. Rest assured, there was no comeback today without Malachi stepping up.

 

[ArtTheFan]

Other UConn coaches supporting each other...Great to see...

 

[HooperScooper]

UConn post game press conference on CBS Sports Network right now.

 

[DRBackup]

Never stopped believing until Silas's first free throw.

I thought UConn was just as good as Duke and the big Duke lead was just constant misses of 3 pointers.

We hit 4 of 5 to end the game and won.

I lost my mind a little bit when Ross didn't close down Ngongba for the 10 second call, but otherwise I had a lot of belief.

That and our defense for much of the first half was atrocious.

 

[TroyHall98]

I take back all criticism I made of this team this season.

Me too. This team’s toughness and resilience is like no other.

 

[jostar1]

 

[TheShot1990]

It’s so perfect.

Facing the number one overall seed.

And it’s puke.

And puke losing.

And us winning

And with a heartbreaking crushing buzzer beater.

Perfect Sunday

 

[dennismenace]

When I said in the pre-game thread that "Mullins is going to have a big opportunity to shoot his way to a Final Four in his home state" that is not quite what I had in mind. But it works.

It became very personal to Braylon. Gunslinger. Another $2 mil for Val!

 

[DRBackup]

Reminded me of the 2004 matchup. Uconn struggled for most of the game but made a run with 3 minutes left

Yup, I was thinking of that one too. Reed almost fouled out a couple of Dukies, like Okafor fouled out at least two, if not three of them. And when we got it to 8, I thought, well, we were down 8 with a little under 3 minutes left against Duke in 2004, this is doable....

 

[greenday61892]

And now we have for the SIXTH time had both in the final four in the same season, when no one else has done it MORE THE ONCE, let's GOO

 

[Conndog]

Silas with the deflection to set it all up

 

[FairView]

I'm thankful I watched this at home instead of in a bar - I would have definitely gotten a DUI on the way home after celebrating. Heck, I think I may get one walking to the bathroom!

 

[jostar1]

 

[tuvent08]

I need a Cam Spencer reaction shot to that since he was in the crowd.

 

[Horsebrnhil]

They seem to be. They really hate us.

The other day they posted signs at NY/CT border SJU Back to back Big East Champions......Annnndddd?
THIS IS HOW YOU TOO THAT. FINAL 4 BABY

 

[mussels]

What's educational about that (and other threads about this game) is that I saw complaints about Scheyer's coaching and disappointment that player A or player B made a bad crunch time decision, but no player was called out for being garbage or should never see the floor again and so on - which IMHO elevates their fans over the idiots who post vile stuff on our boards.

Ok - so they get the lady byng fancy classy fans award. We’ll just have to make do with the wins.

 

[dennismenace]

"Utterly impossible" Raftery. Not really. Haven't you seen enough of this schools greatness, especially in the NCAA?

 

[HCCForever]

Props to Silas, was having a rough go with the unforced turnover in the 1st half that smoked momentum and then missing two wide open corner 3s in the 2nd half, but those two contested corner 3s broke seal and helped get us closer. Then of course the deflection, the fact that he's doing this with a high ankle sprain and was wearing a boot to media availability yesterday is nuts.

That was a sequence that was a real momentum killer. The Silas turnover followed closely by AKs airball. UConn was only down by 5 or 7 at that time but that led to a Duke run. Credit to both Silas and AK for being part of game winning play.

 

[JungleLobo]

At worst, Duke won’t be tying UConn for number 6 this season.

 

[UConnDan97]

I think that was Millender doing the Lord's work and getting everyone on the bench back behind the line. Don't give that set of referees any extra reason at all...