Jason Evans

But Chris has it, so I'm going to read it.

You ready for this?

Watts and Horner sat in the corner planning a Christmas surprise for

Duke free throws, please, but Anderson threes, spelled trouble and the devil's demise.

That's pretty damn good, Chris.

I'm impressed.

I'm definitely impressed.

I also wanted to note that there are several folks who commented that this was a culmination.

I just wanted to, you know, we're not going to get into this right now, Donald, but I wanted to note because we had so many people write to us and say this was a culmination of all of Duke's deficiencies that we've been talking about all year.

Poor start to the game, poor free throw shooting, lack of a second score.

Those folks are all accurate about that.

There are a lot of people who said to us, Donald, and when they wrote with headlines, they included comments where they said Duke did not deserve to win this game.

a last second miracle by Duke would have been an injustice.

I don't disagree with that at all.

And I think there are certainly lessons that can be learned

from a loss that maybe would have been papered over had we managed to hold on and win or had we managed to hit a shot at the end to win.

And last thing before we get to the good, I wanted to note, Jim Sumner, we've said this a million times, Donald, folks, you need to subscribe to Jim Sumner's sub stack.

He has really, really great commentary.

And he closed his newsletter about yesterday's game with these lines that I think are very, very telling.

And this is the biggest takeaway that we all should have from this game.