71 in NCAA tourney opener
Coach Mike Krzyzewski's team ended up being sent to its Abercrombie And Fitch Perth second one and done in three years Feb 5th, losing 78 71 to Mercer in the second round from the Midwest Regional.
"I never thought it was going to happen," said Battle each other star freshman Jabari Parker. "They didn't consider it on paper. . From now on, that cannot happen anymore."
It won't. Duke's season is over.
Maybe Parker's college or university career, too.
He said he hasn't decided anything, although it had long been assumed by simply outsiders that Duke would have been a one year pit stop for his way to the Basketball. Rodney Hood, a Mississippi Talk about transfer, also could be on course to the pros after only a single season playing for the Pink Devils.
"I thought Vibram Five Fingers Australia Buy I'd be playing after today,Inch Hood said.
So did most everyone else who done a bracket.
But some really serious holes on defense allowed the Atlantic Sun safe bet Bears who start several seniors and come from the very same conference that produced 2013 tournament darling Florida Beach Coast to have their way using Duke.
Mercer shot 56 per cent 58 percent in the better half and scored 11 continuous points during the decisive 20 Five run.
"They're a team that's been with each other a long time," Hood said. "They sliced us up. There's really no other way to put it.In
Quinn Cook scored 23 factors and Womens Nike Free Run 3.0 V4 Rasheed Sulaimon added 20 regarding Duke, which made a year or so high 15 3 suggestions and went up 63 Fifty eight with 4:52 left after Parker converted a three point play and Tyler Thornton hit a few free throws.
The Blue Demons didn't score again before final minute.
"I don't know whenever we panicked," senior Andre Dawkins said, "but most people didn't do the things we wanted to do."
Like scores. Or defend.
Big dude Daniel Coursey countered by rattling in a bouncer in the lane, and after a pair of empty possessions for Challenge each other, some slick ball turning by Mercer set up Anthony White Jr.'s open 3 that will tied it at Sixty three with 2 minutes left.
Hood picked up his next foul on the Bears' next possession and Jakob Gollon hit two free throws to put Mercer ahead for great.
By that point, Duke in the midst of an untimely run involving empty possessions could loosen up right.
Parker missed a 3 or more pointer in traffic just before Hood was called for wandering, leading White to give a new fist pump to those raucous Mercer fans who stood for hours on end.
The Bears hit 15 of 14 free throws in the final 2 moments and finished 23 of Twenty-eight from the line. Gollon was Six for 6 during that late course, and his two with 5 seconds left put the Holds up 78 68 ahead of Cook hit a useless 3 with 0.2 seconds remaining.
After the buzzer sounded, the Bears players formed a circle on the sideline closest to the Mercer fans as well as danced. In the middle was guard Kevin Canevari, a new Charlotte native who's among the seven seniors on the lineup.
"We were confident all weeks time," Canevari said. "We don't Nike Free Runs Cheap definitely look at it like we're a great underdog in this tournament. Obviously, people's a great Nike Stockists Adelaide team, there's recently been so many upsets. But it is a little bit surreal."
Gollon scored 30 points and Coursey added Seventeen-year-old for Mercer. White finished with Tough luck points, and A Sun participant of the year Langston Hall and Ove Nwamu added 11 apiece with regard to Mercer which watched the last years Sweet 16 run by "Dunk City" that has a mixture of pride and are jealous of.
"This," Hall said, "is precisely what March Madness is all about."
The 14th seeded Bears using a starting lineup of five retirees and from the same nfl that produced last season's tournament darlings "Dunk City" of Florida West Coast came back from 5 points down in the last 5:52 as Duke's offense flattened.
Mercer qualified for its first NCAA tournament since 1985 by winning the Atlantic Sun convention championship over Florida West Coast. A year earlier, the Carries lost that game as well Nike Stockists Adelaide as watched FGCU advance to the Lovely 16.
"When they were going on its run, we were sitting in your own home thinking, 'Man, that could have been us all,'" White said.
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