Woooooooooooohooooooooooooo!!!!
Duke Blue Devils 2010 National Champs! Love how that sounds. Loved the big plays by Kyle, Jon, Lance and Z.
I know this isn't the hater thread but I thought this post by Ken Pom on his blog about one of many e-mails he got in Feb and March on how Duke failed the eye test.
Quote:
Ken,
I spent many years as a sportswriter for [a newspaper] and always found your ratings useful. This season, however, is proof that your instrument needs some tweaking. Any ratings that have a middling Duke team ranked 12 slots higher than Villanova and 15 slots higher than a Georgetown team which disemboweled Duke head to head needs some adjusting. I know your matrix is supposed to make conference affiliation superfluous, but the ACC REALLY stinks this season, and your system doesn’t reflect what any set of eyes immediately tells us.
—Somebody
This is exactly why I think this team was so special this year. It wasn't a prototypical Duke offensive team but it embraced its strengths in offensive rebounding and made teams play their game. The defense didn't get in the passing lanes and force lots of TO's but was very effective. Kyle, Jon and Nolan were awesome all year. Lance was the glue guy all year. But Zoubek emerging as an interior PRESENCE starting with the first MD game was the key. Way to go big guy.
As Lance said in the post game presser, "To leave champions. To have our last game - leaving as national champions. We maxed out our season."
Yes you did guys. Congratulations all around:D
I think my heart rate is finally slowing
so I am going to try to get some shut eye. Work tomorrow. Hope the mods can post some video tomorrow of the Cameron celebration for the team. Congrats to the Duke Blue Devils and their fans.:p