Jason Evans

And, you know, against Carolina in the final eight minutes, we were up pretty big and we had a disastrous final eight minutes.

And against Texas Tech, we were up pretty big and we had a disastrous final eight minutes.

Well, we're up pretty big, guys, and there's eight minutes left.

Let's make sure that we don't have a disastrous final eight minutes.

So these silly fans who think that Duke always blows the lead and can't execute down the stretch, maybe they will learn that that isn't always the case for a John Shire coach team.

I really believe that this is what John said to the guys in that timeout.

And it's worth noting that coming out of that timeout, Duke scored the first five points to take the lead from 17 up to 22.

And with under a minute left, the lead was still at 18.

I know the final margin was

It was 13.

There are some people out there who had wagered on this game at 13.5.

Some bookies had it at 12.5.

There are some books that had it at 13.5.

If you had this at 13.5, that was a horrible, horrible bad beat that you suffered there.

Overwhelming.

What did you say?

Overwhelming is what Brett Merzberger would say.

But the bottom line is...

All those folks who had so much angst lately, Donald, you and I have heard from them repeatedly about Duke blowing leads and this team can't score down the stretch and they don't know what to do, blah, blah, blah.

That did not happen against a good Clemson team.