Donald Wine

Nick Soprano wrote, Blue Devils to have a blue Christmas at the hands of the Red Raiders.

And Jim Baumgartner wrote, Duke free throw woes, Stoke Red Raider rally.

Jason, we will be talking about free throws.

So Jason, the comment that you made actually would be a great way for me to segue into the good because I want to push back on the notion that we did not deserve to win this game.

We did deserve to win this game.

We didn't play well enough to win this game.

Texas Tech played better down the stretch and obviously has some things we got to work on.

But this wasn't a case of Texas Tech was just outclassing us and outmastering us the entire game.

We had our moments to win this game.

If we had won this game, I feel like it would have been a deserving victory.

Now, it doesn't mean that we didn't have issues.

But I think we had some guys that stepped up at certain times.

We're obviously going to talk about some of the good that we did have.

But this wasn't a, you know, if you look at the column, it's not going to be, you know, 97 things in the bad and one thing in the good.

where it's one of those cases where, again, details matter.

We said that in the preview.

I mean, it was a 17 point victory or 17 point lead that we had at the 1632 mark in the second half.

That was the biggest lead of the game.

And again, we didn't get there undeservedly.

We got to that point because we were making the like overcoming some of the things that we did wrong in the first half and coming back strong.