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Message: [QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 3010595, member: 6798"] Unfortunately the fact that they only beat Marquette by 1 doesn't really matter since the committee doesn’t seem to consider goal differential at all in their selections. Kinda wish they did as it is clear Duke has not looked good as of late when you combine the ACC tourney loss with the Marquette one. But they do have quality wins over the two ACC teams that look the best right now (ND and UVA), along with Loyola and Penn which are huge, and Denver and Towson who continue to hang around the tourney conversation. They do a truly insane amount of schedule overload, to the point where you wonder how it is allowed. They strait up play at the very least 2 more games than everyone else and have tons of out of conference RPI boosting opportunities. To their credit they tend to make the most of it. They also beat UVA without Michael Kraus but that is yet another thing that the committee doesn't consider at all. [/QUOTE]