By STEVE WISEMAN
swiseman@heraldsun.com; 919-419-6671
DURHAM — This past season’s ending, a maddening March rather than March Madness, represented a rarity for Duke basketball.
A loss to 15th-seeded Lehigh at the Greensboro Coliseum marked the first time since 2007 that the Blue Devils had failed to win at least one NCAA Tournament game. It was just the fourth time in 28 NCAA Tournament appearances under Coach Mike Krzyzewski that Duke went out without a win.
The loss led Krzyzewski and his staff to ask some tough questions about the program.
“Sometimes if you leave a tournament earlier, you are more truthful with yourself, not just about that game but about everything,” Krzyzewski said Wednesday. “If you would have won, say, two games and lost in the Sweet 16. Well, we won 30, so it must not be that bad.
swiseman@heraldsun.com; 919-419-6671
DURHAM — This past season’s ending, a maddening March rather than March Madness, represented a rarity for Duke basketball.
A loss to 15th-seeded Lehigh at the Greensboro Coliseum marked the first time since 2007 that the Blue Devils had failed to win at least one NCAA Tournament game. It was just the fourth time in 28 NCAA Tournament appearances under Coach Mike Krzyzewski that Duke went out without a win.
The loss led Krzyzewski and his staff to ask some tough questions about the program.
“Sometimes if you leave a tournament earlier, you are more truthful with yourself, not just about that game but about everything,” Krzyzewski said Wednesday. “If you would have won, say, two games and lost in the Sweet 16. Well, we won 30, so it must not be that bad.
