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Message: [QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 4242069, member: 1026"] I see the point, Dook certainly benefits from a more regional alumni base (vs say UConn or UNC) and has built a brand as a perennial good team like other 'national' teams, Cowboys, Notre Dame, Yankees. Respectfully though this is somewhat a self-fulfilling prophecy of espn love and the favorable national spin that results. It is similar to how they have so many McD's AA yet don't produce the requisite # of pros = perpetually reap various benefits from favorable coverage/ratings: Per link below Dook's played in NC or SC 15 times since 1997 and there are more if count add'l rounds in NC. Try to remember how favorable it was for UConn when we returned to MSG during the 2014 run or Hartford way back in 1990 which was absolute craziness (no way was UConn losing in Htfd), Dook gets a break like that more often than any one else. By comparison, UConn men haven't played an NCAA game in CT since 1990. Maybe once every 10 years the Huskies get a MSG or MA (never RI as I recall) game - Dook again more often than not. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/play-index/tourney.cgi?request=1&match=single&year_min=&year_max=&round=1&region=&location=&school_id=duke&conf_id=&opp_id=&opp_conf=&seed=&seed_cmp=eq&opp_seed=&opp_seed_cmp=eq&game_result=&pts_diff=&pts_diff_cmp=eq&order_by=date_game&order_by_single=date_game&order_by_combined=g&order_by_asc=&offset=100[/URL] [/QUOTE]