Favorite Duke moments of the decade

[Quavarius]

Grayson,15 Championship game,willed the boys to win.

It’s ashamed Grayson’s other antics overshadows that 2015 Final Four performance. Had he gone to the NBA that season, this would have been a great story to tell about taking advantage of your chances.

Grayson is one of the main reasons K has a 5th title.

 

[dukedevilz]

I will go to my grave saying we deserved the 1 seed over Carolina that year. We beat them 2 out of 3, had more top 50 wins, more top 100 wins, ACC Champions (the tournament winner is the champion). The ONLY thing in their favor, IIRC, was they had 7 overall losses to our 8.

And that was with practically half our team missing at least 1 game with injuries!

The only explanation I ever heard for why this was the case was this: the head of the selection committee basically said we were too far down the "s-curve". Because we were so far back at the mid-point of the season (I guess we were a projected 4 or 5 seed), a two seed was about as high as we could climb. So essentially we never even got the opportunity to have our resume evaluated against Carolina for the 1 seed.

Talk about a flawed methodology. It still pisses me off when I think about it.

One more point, which I feel the committee overlooked completely, is the fact that Duke was 15-3, when including the ACC Tournament, with all of our 7 key players in the lineup. Amile Jefferson missed two games - and we went 0-2. Grayson Allen missed two games, and we went 0-2 in those two games, as well.