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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 5218320, member: 175"] If we played Duke in the second round, when they hadn’t been tested or felt tournament pressure yet, I think we’d have a chance if we kept it close. Flagg has more or less played in 3 close games in his entire life and fell down in the clutch in all of them. Montverde played none, and Duke has barely played any. Proctor has a little bit of big game experience, but was something like 0-8 in the NC State loss, so he has some demons. Mason Gillis has some too - he’s been a part of losses to a 15 and a 16 and then played 25 scoreless minutes in the national championship where you have to go look at the film to remember he was out there (he scored 20 in the entire NCAA Tournament). The freshmen of course haven’t been on a stage like this and Sion James and Maliq Brown haven’t really either. So I could see a scenario where they collectively get really tight and it’s up to Flagg and Knueppel to make shots and that isn’t necessarily going to go well. But you never know. We would also have to beat a good team in the 8-9 game to have a chance, of course. We were once wondering about how we’d match up with Anthony Davis and Iowa State beat us by 50. [/QUOTE]