Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Duke is in the ACC so they have to play UNC and Syracuse and BC...
Northwestern and Penn were their Top 20 games... A lot of the other games esp. the last game they played against VCU are against unranked teams. Its kind of what ND did this year. It doesnt help to play an easier schedule when it comes to NCAAs'


Dukes schedule is far from easy. Other than the usual suspects (MD, UNC, NU, Syracuse, BC, Princeton, Virginia, Florida, PSU...) What teams play a tougher or equivalent schedule? Not many teams play the type of schedule That Duke plays.

Duke is an excellent program, easily one of the Top 20 Programs in the country.


They haven't been lately...


Yes, they have. Name 20 programs that have consistently done better over the past five years.


What are you looking at? What's your definition of lately? In the last four seasons Duke is 38-35 with ONE tournament appearance four years ago in which they won the first round game and got beat fairly easily in the second round, is this your idea of success? I would think even the Duke faithful wouldn't want to lower the bar to these levels. The game appears to be passing Kimel by, she has yet to figured out playing in the shot clock free movement era


my daughter plays for an ACC team that is still alive, and Duke was one of the toughest opponents they faced all year, if they played in any conference other than the ACC or Big Ten they would be conference champs. I thought they had a great team this year and totally agree they deserved to be in tournament they would destroy Michigan and/or Stanford.


Next year, Duke has to beat some quality opponents. That's the formula for selection into NCAA Tournament. We can all speculate on this site, but the fact remains, you have to beat "Top 30 " teams on your schedule in order to get into the tournament. They didn't have enough the last few years for the committee to select them. It's on them as a program ((players and coaches) to get it done in the future...