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Baseline Thoughts: UNC's 93-84 win over Duke proved what we already knew
Pat Welter shares his "baseline thoughts" after UNC beats Duke 93-84 in round one of the historic rivalry from Dean Smith Center.
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Pat Welter shares his "baseline thoughts" after UNC beats Duke 93-84 in round one of the historic rivalry from Dean Smith Center.
When Duke and UN C play each other, you expect to learn a lot about the two teams. But I would say this game confirmed what we already knew. There's a hunger and thirst with this group that um individually and as a team to be the best that it can be UN C top 20 in offensive and defensive efficiency. They've got all the answers to the test for the last month. And we saw that in this game, this team just doesn't care like at the end of the day, if RJ had zero and Armando had 90 points or vice versa, I don't really think they care. RJ Davis doubled didn't have much space to operate. Well, that left room for Armando Bacot and Harrison Ingram to take over the game. I knew coming into this game, I would have a big game. I, I told my mom before the game, I'm like, I think I'm gonna get like 2010 and I knew it. I mean, I thought the game plan was amazing and, oh yeah, I really just been waiting my time as good as they were offensively. It all started on the defensive end, Duke plagued by turnovers in this one, John Shire went as far to question their will to compete. We didn't compete to the level that you need to, to have a chance to beat this team tonight and that's what I'm disappointed about. Duke returned four starters from last year's AC C championship winning team. But this season to me has been about the one that didn't come back. Derek Lively's absence severely felt in this game as talented as Duke is, the roster doesn't quite fit and that is the difference right now between them and UN C as we go into February Casey.