Duke Bball Alumni

[aiw]

Now they’re showing the 2001 Final Four game vs Maryland. I remember that game well.

Spoiler

Duke gets all the calls

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It's Billy Packer, so it's Duke University, not Duke.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

Battier should've played center for this team.

 

[physicsfactor]

Duke’s first basket in a Final Four game was a Casey Sanders And1 lol. Def did not remember that trivia.

 

[physicsfactor]

“Duke getting a lot of calls early in this ball game.” - Billy Packer as Duke trails 7-3

 

[aiw]

And there it was. The perception of Duke changed forever on 3/31/2001 with 16:30 left in the 1st half. Packer exclaims "Duke getting a lot of calls". This continues through the rest of this game and Duke goes from America's Team to America hating, flopping, 3-point shooting, basketball ruining, pansy bastards. The feeling persists for eternity.

 

[SeanMayTriedToEatMe]

I am muting this and getting some work done until I see we're down 22.

 

[aiw]

I was talking to a friend today about how Duke had 2 teams 2 years apart that only had Battier in common, with everyone completely different, that were both so dominant.

 

[2001Dukechamps]

This is still the most electrifying Duke team I've ever seen. I remember how outrageously confident I was in the fact that no team in the country could hang with our A game or even beat our B game on most days.

What an absolute juggernaut of a team.

 

[physicsfactor]

I have watched this game from Maryland 39 - Duke 17 probably a dozen times. Weird watching the beginning.

 

[2001Dukechamps]

I was talking to a friend today about how Duke had 2 teams 2 years apart that only had Battier in common, with everyone completely different, that were both so dominant.

Nate James as well.

 

[aiw]

I have watched this game from Maryland 39 - Duke 17 probably a dozen times. Weird watching the beginning.

Because Sanders carrying us

 

[aiw]

Amazing that graphics were so bad in the 2000s

 

[2001Dukechamps]

God I forgot how much I loved Nate James. His winning intangibles were essentially Battier/Winslow-esque just without the NBA lottery pick talent to supplement it.

 

[aiw]

Battier fouling Brendan Haywood may have been the only thing he's done wrong in his entire life.

 

[aiw]

Packer always said Duke University instead of just saying Duke.

 

[2001Dukechamps]

Lol @ the display graphic of Maryland shooting 61% vs Duke's 26% during their early 1st half run to that 20+ point lead. Imagine a modern Duke squad being on the end of such a disparity in a NCAA tournament game.

We'd all be picking dates for K's resignation and/or eventually dying due to brain aneurysms.

 

[physicsfactor]

Y’all ready for this bullshit Dixon heave to end the half?

 

[physicsfactor]

Packer just called Cameron “Carmichael” lol

 

[aiw]

Packer called Cameron Carmichael.

 

[physicsfactor]

Y’all ready for this bullshit Dixon heave to end the half?

GAME