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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 140983, member: 767"]
Someone sent him an email criticizing him for leaving early?  I'm not going to paint the whole school with one brush, but what an  move.    I love that he signed the letter #42 NBA.  For some reason that strikes me as awesome.

I didn't realize the letter was linked above; that is absurd.  Just one person I know, but I would probably hate anyone that takes themselves that seriously.

For whatever it's worth, in 2005 we finished 17th in the Ken Pom rankings, Duke finished third.  Both teams went 11-5 in the conference, the best team we beat out of conference were Memphis and Miss st (mid 30's in the Ken Pom) on a neutral site, Duke beat Michigan State (7) at home, Oklahoma (9) on a neutral site.  That was also back before the BE expanded and before the ACC was terrible outside of Duke and UNC.  We did win @Nova (4), but then didn't have another win against a team in the top 25 in BE, with our second best win being WVU at home (30).  Actually w ebeat UConn at MSG, they were 13.

Duke won @ NC State (20) and beat them in the ACC tournament.  They beat GA Tech (19) 3 times, once at home, once on the road, once in the ACC tournament.    They also beat UNC (1) at home, and Wake (11) at home.

I see us with 2 wins against the Ken Pom top 25, @4 and 13 at a neutral site.  I count Duke with 10.  10!  @Nova is probably better than UNC at home, but they had 10 top 25 wins!  (Also, remember when the ACC was good?  Wake, Tech, State all top 25 in the Pomeroy rankings.)  I gotta say, looking back at it, that is a damn impressive resume.  The 5 losses were @UNC, @ Maryland (32), @Wake (11), @ Va Tech, and home Maryland.  Home Maryland and at Va Tech are a little iffy (all our losses came to top 25 KP teams) but the wins more than make up for it)

Also, no talk of Duke flopping is complete without this

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0upQDkY-pg[/URL]

Stuff like that really needs to be weeded out of the game.
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