As a Duke fan, I felt like this would be a loss after the first game in Durham.  While Duke won by 15, Miami played them well.  So I thought it would be difficult to win down there.  I had hope, after the Wake loss, they might pull it together enough to go down and win.  Instead, they played their worst 30 minutes of basketball this year (and still came close to winning).

I'm not sure the big man is significant.  They've had quite skilled big men play as well against them and they still won (see Maryland twice, UNC).  Certainly he hurt them, but they had a season high turnover count, and didn't shoot as well.  That really was the difference more so than the size.  Some of that was Miami, but some of it was just Duke not playing as well as they have most of the year.  I tend to agree with Krzyzewski in that they haven't looked like the same team.  They've played better teams than Wake & Miami and won, sometimes easily.  I think a lot of it is on them.

I keep hearing "45 years" - how many times have they played in those 45 years?  Rarely, I would think, until the last 3 years when Miami joined the ACC.  This isn't like a Clemson win in Chapel Hill or anything.  The whole "45 years" is overblown, but I guess it sounds good.

And is anyone more paranoid than Roy Williams?  He gets all bent out of shape at least once every year over something someone says, and usually it's not even about him, although he manages to make it about him.  Just because someone says "unlike other schools, we don't do this" doesn't mean they're criticizing Williams.  UNC is not unique in their handling of such issues, so the comment is not necessarily directed at Roy - who just needs to get over himself.