What’s Wrong With Duke Basketball?
The Lead
Wondery
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🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The Associated Press released its new Top 25 for men’s college basketball on Monday, and for the first time in 60 years, the Top 25 has no UNC, no Kentucky, no Kansas, no UCLA — and no sign of the suddenly struggling Duke Blue Devils. Today, we’re joined by The Athletic’s Dana O’Neil to look at everything that has gone wrong for Mike Krzyzewski’s team this season, and whether they still have enough time to turn things around.
Read Dana O’Neil and Brendan Marks’s story about Duke: https://theathletic.com/2359480/2021/02/02/duke-blue-devils-ncaa-tournament-coach-k-jalen-johnson-matthew-hurt/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:32.7 | The Associated Press release is Top 25 Ranking for Men's College Basketball on Monday, |
| 0:37.0 | and for the first time in 60 years, there's no UNC, no Kentucky, no Kansas, no UCLA, |
| 0:43.4 | and no sign of the struggling Duke Blue Devils. |
| 0:46.2 | Down with a rebound is Love and North Carolina, comes into Cameron and wins 91 to 87, dropping |
| 0:58.7 | the Blue Devils to the 500 mark of the season at 7 and 7. |
| 1:02.7 | Today, the Athletics Dana O'Neill on everything that's gone wrong for Mike Shashep's team, |
| 1:08.1 | and the long shot odds they face just to try to make the NCAA tournament this year. |
| 1:13.1 | You cannot look at their resume and say they merit a spot. |
| 1:16.3 | They don't, and I don't think Mike Shashep would argue with anybody that they do. |
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| 1:26.8 | It's Tuesday, February 9th, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:30.2 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:34.3 | There was just something about the emotion and the heart of the team. |
| 1:38.4 | Well, so Dana, you wrote about a moment at the end of Duke's recent win over Georgia Tech. |
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