Wasnt sure where to post so adding this here...talk about a can of worms...if former players sue and win these types of lawsuits....oh boy
"Former NCAA tournament hero Kris Jenkins, in a lawsuit filed last week with the Southern District of New York, is suing the NCAA and six major conferences for limiting athlete pay and restricting his ability to capitalize off his name, image and likeness while he was at Villanova University"

📍 San Anton
⏰ 8:49
📺 cbs

It’s finally time! This has been the slowest week of recent memory. Duke is currently a 5.5 point favorite over the coogs. According to Kenpom this is the 1 vs 2 matchup with Duke 1 overall and 1 in offense with Houston 1 in D. I expect a war and I expect a win. I don’t think Houston will be able to score quite enough to beat us

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I wanted to open up a thread for any venting, frustrations, commiserating, etc. about the way Duke's season ended.

Any questions you want to fire off, any additional analysis you need, any regrets ... yall have the floor.

I'll chime in over the next few days with notes and thoughts. For now, I've got one:

U.S. secretary of state Marco Rubio announced yesterday afternoon that the U.S. is revoking all visas held by South Sudanese people -- which includes Khaman Maluach. Here's the link to the AP story.

Maluach was the worst player on the court last night, minus-20 in 21 minutes, 0 rebounds, minimal defensive impact. I'm not saying the situation is completely to blame for his play; if he played well and Duke won, we'd be talking about how great it was that he was able to shove aside the outside noise. But I've gotta think his mind was at least somewhat divided last night.

Pretty good read

Maluach had the worst game he had as a blue devil yesterday. Do you think it hurt his performance? Brendan marks tweet confirms that he was more than likely aware of it. I get it Houston’s tough but just thought maybe he went in worried or something last night .

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Make sure you vote here guys. Also Naismith fan vote

Getting this thread fired up wayyyyyyy early to get ready for Duke's Final Four game.

I'll have coverage coming throughout the week. First up is going to be something relatively straightforward about Houston tonight. Jordan and I recorded an episode of Big J & Little J this morning, so that'll be coming online tonight (hopefully).

I'll have more coming tomorrow, a little more in-depth, with some leftovers from coverage in Newark and a peak toward the weekend.

Wednesday is my travel day, so coverage will be on the lighter side that day. And then Thursday will really get fired up, as I'll be in San Antonio. There are interviews Thursday and Friday.

Let me know if you have questions ... concerns ... story ideas ... or if you'll be in San Antonio this week.

Just a silly post game observations thread I am starting, with 10 bullet points. Sometimes serious, sometimes not. No Coors or hot dogs tonight. As the Joker says "and here we go."
1. Incarnate Word. Good Lord. Somewhere Jim Boeheim is saying "damn even I never played these guys."
2. Our offense seems to consist of 2 guys standing in each corner, unmoving. My junior high coach ran this play.
3. Mal must have heard my Casey Sanders comment, because he's taking over. Nice job Mal.
4. I like Sion but he might lead the nation in being burned on backdoor cuts.
5. Wow Sion must have read my #4 and gotten mad. 2 beautiful drives.
6. Nice to see Big Pat in there. Foster seems to love exceedingly difficult drives that sometimes goes in.
7. Evans heating up. He is key to us this year. He's Dynomite! (You have to be old to get that)
Ehhh I can't even come up with 10 points. It's Incarnate Word. We won, but looked kind of ho-hum. It's finals week coming off 2 big games. We don't always seem like a cohesive unit. 34% from 3 for the year needs to improve for us to make a deep run. Get Brown back ASAP. George Mason in a week. I commented before the ACC seems so boring this year. Where are the stars? I can hardly name any other ACC players other than UNC and our transfers. Other than Duke the ACC needs to up its recruiting, NIL, and portal transfer game. The SEC challenge painfully drove that point home; that football money is helping those schools. Now get off my lawn you crazy kids. Good night from the beautiful(but cold and dark at 4:30) Pacific Northwest.

📍 Newark
⏰ 8:49
📺 TBS

1 win away from the promised land.. the main event.. the final four. Duke is currently a 6.5 point favorite over the tide. I expect a lot of scoring and hopefully some flow.. Duke moves on!

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Let’s freaking GO

I live out of state and I want to know what is the Duke call-in radio station to listen to pre-game and post-game? Please let me know the station or paste the link! Thank you and LET'S GO DUKE! GO CRAZIE!!!

Come on Cameron and Cayden, you'll know where's home and what to do.
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As everyone has seen, sideshow Cadeau is in the portal.

Also Washington from Cheats is in the portal.

I'm seeing on Twitter lots of interest for Donovan Dent from New Mexico for us. Don't know if it's just a reaction from one post then all the others started tweeting about it or if it's legit interest.

Edit: Supposedly C-Well started following Dent on social media

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Get em. GTHC
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I very rarely post but wondering on everyones thoughts.

We have always tended to struggle with older more mature teams that are physical. Houston fits that bill as only 1 of the first 7 players is a true sophmore while the rest are redshirted sophomore's, Juniors, or Graduate students. They are also the top defense in the country currently. How well do you think we will fair with that kind of physical play and pressure?

I wanted Jeff Capel to replace Coach K. I’m here to eat crow about Scheyer. I’m man enough to admit I was wrong and glad no one in the Duke administration valued my opinion.

I know I’m not the only one as there is plenty of crow to go around.

One of the other great things about this team is the connection not only between the players, but also the players parents as well. Those are the intangibles that make a great season a special season! This is certainly appealing to recruits families as well. I’m not saying previous teams/parents weren’t this close either, but it just feels different with this group.

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As much as the conference has been down in the past four years, this stat doesn’t get enough attention:





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Also, next year the NCAA will allow all schools 15 scholarships

Congrats to the lady blue devils for beating two top teams in notre dame and nc state to win their tourney!!! Let’s make it a sweep scheyer!

OK OK OK, I'm awake!

Last night -- really, this morning -- was a late one, but I'm back at it in Newark. We've got interviews today, so I'll be making my way to Prudential Center in the next hour or so (interviews start around 2:50).

I'll have at least one story and a preview up later today/tonight for tomorrow's game.

And then the programming note: I'll be there tomorrow night along with Michael Lewis for complete coverage of Alabama-Duke in the Elite 8.

7:09- Ole miss vs Michigan State
7:39- Kentucky vs Tennessee
9:39- Michigan vs Auburn
10:09- Purdue vs Houston


Should be a fun slate. Hoping the old head Izzo wins out, Auburn should win as well.


I think the UK UT game will be awesome and I like both teams (I know yall hate them) but I would salivate at the idea of a Duke/Kentucky final four so go cats

Hope Purdue can pull off the win in Indy