Scott Rich

The fact that that happened at two key moments for Duke.

And not only did it happen, but Duke turned both of those into key baskets.

To me, that's my my joint play of the game unified by that miss rebounding your missed free throw.

Have I ever been a part of a bite that has actually been bite-sized?

I'm not sure that's ever functionally happened.

The vibes check was actually bite-sized.

And lest we forget, this is not last year's ACC on top of all that.

There has been, you know, now that we're a little bit into conference play, people are starting to reevaluate the relative strengths of the conferences.

One way that they've been doing that, Jeff Goodman put out a tweet looking at the percentage of the conference's teams in the top 75 of the net.

The 78% of ACC teams are in the top 75 of the net.

The only conference above that is the Big 12, which I think everyone agrees is a tier above everyone else in terms of strength.

The SEC dominance storyline of last year

isn't what it was.

The ACC being as bad as it was in its history, that is no longer the case.

So when you say, hey, Duke is going on the road to play two quality ACC teams, that is a tough week.

Even before we talk about going out across the country, which is something that no Duke team has had to do before the last couple of years in conference realignment.

If I recall correctly, if he already had two years of eligibility remaining, including this year.

So, you know, hopefully we can get the ball rolling and get him that medical red shirt.

And this is a guy who can be that big, big body that break in case of emergency big, you know, for another two years at Duke.

It's a shame for him.