I'm doing a study to determine which programs were most affected by key injuries either during the season or during the tourney from 2000 onward.
Any feedback here would be appreciated.
Thanks
Any feedback here would be appreciated.
Thanks
Duke injuries that prevented them from winning the NCAA
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The data shows that every team's fans think their team was effected the most. We do seem to have a lot. Even when we won we had injuries but got healthy at the right time. Boozer in 01. Kelly in 2013. Zion, cam a few years back. Amile in 2016. Tatum his year.
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2011 and 2017 are the two that really jump off the page to me as years where things could have gone way differently without injury.
Considering that Coach K thought the 2011 team had a chance of going undefeated, I will always feel that Kyrie's injury directly cost us the championship.
And 2013, Ryan’s injury was a dagger. I thought us and Louisville were the two best teams. A shame we met in the elite 8.
Not in time frame but the most obvious one to me is Verga in 1966.Lost to Kentucky by 4.Never convince we don’t win NC with him healthy
15 was very banged up, but all guys were able to continue to contribute at high level with minimal time lost. Justice ribs, Quinn and Matt Jones sprained ankles, and a couple others, I think.
Wasn't there a game where we could barely field a team that year towards the end of the season? Weren't we really strapped in one of the UNC games?
Wasn't there a game where we could barely field a team that year towards the end of the season? Weren't we really strapped in one of the UNC games?
The UNC game it was in '16. Thornton made that block and we beat a unc team we had no business beating in Chapel Hill.
Loved watching the Duke at unc win in 2016 haha. Anyways, Duke runs the table during 2010-2011 season if Irving does not get turf toe. Duke was rolling teams before the injury happened. 11 deep!
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I have always been a little surprised at the discussion over K brining Kyrie back in the NCAA Tournament. To me, it seems like an absolute no-brainer: if you have a guy that skilled who is healthy, he needs to play. If there is a "what if" in relation to leaving him out due to chemistry/rotation concerns, that pales in comparison to the "what if" that would exist if Duke lost to Arizona and he was healthy enough to play and didn't. The same people that contend he threw the chemistry off would likely be losing their minds if we had that bullet and lost without firing it.
Seth also played that entire year with a stress fracture in his ankle. He played markedly worse in games with only one day rest that season.
I can't remember if he came off the bench against Arizona in the S16 or not. I know he did in the first two games - I was at them in Charlotte, which included a squeaker over Michigan.
Nolan Smith's game was thrown off after Kyrie came back because Nolan had become The Man while Kyrie was out.
Kyrie was a generational talent in college (in my opinion equal to Zion) so he had to play. If he had never gotten injured he and Nolan would have learned to play together (as they did the first month of the season) and the team would have continued to be dominant.
Kyrie was a generational talent in college (in my opinion equal to Zion) so he had to play. If he had never gotten injured he and Nolan would have learned to play together (as they did the first month of the season) and the team would have continued to be dominant.
I remember us barely beating Michigan. We just did not look good in the tournament. I remember Kyrie playing most of the game against Arizona. We ran into a buzzsaw, we had no one who could guard Williams.
He was on another planet that game. He never played that well before or since.
That was ultimately the problem: they never got the chance to develop that collective identity.
ACC Tourny final against Maryland. Slammed into a camera dock. Duke was going for their sixth ACCT championship in a row. They proceeded to win the next two, so if they had gotten that one it could have been eight in a row.
2011 is the biggest injury related whiff to me. Duke was annihilating everyone before Kyrie got hurt. If he stays healthy we finish at worst 38-2 with #5.
2000, 2011, and 2017. Specifically the 2011 team. I really feel Kyrie would’ve won NPY and we would’ve cut down the nets had he played that season.
Maybe, but the Zion team looked like world beaters early on and ended on a down note, even with Zion. A lot can happen in a season.
Yep. Kyrie was an incredibly unfortunate one for you guys. He was on another level for a college player. PGs are tough to lose. Marshall's wrist injury against Creighton crippled us.
What is this thread about? SMH. They just can't help it can they? They are tar heel fans. It's their nature. Bless their hearts. OFC
Marshall finished his illustrious playing career with the Agua Caliente Clippers. Not sure what happened with Kyrie. Is he playing overseas?
For sure. That was so stupid that it got me going on all the sarcastic post about every heel a top 50 NBA player . If marshall why not anyone. For some reason I thought it was a poster named "smooth as butter" but not sure. OFC
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True. And while I certainly didn't wish injury upon him, after what happened with Kyrie, I had no sympathy for y'all. Just being honest.
On the other side of things I feel like when boozer went down temporarily in 01 and Casey sanders had to step up it galvanized the team that year and helped light a fire under them
He was so good and the perfect big for those teams.
Without him we don’t match up with those Maryland teams at all
