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00:00was the Duke Blue Devils and the Arizona Wildcats.
00:02We thought we would get a pretty good offensive game,
00:04and boy, did we yesterday.
00:05100 points for the Duke Blue Devils,
00:0793 for the Arizona Wildcats.
00:09This is sort of what we thought,
00:11because for me, Joe, coming into,
00:12and I like to say the third round, let's just say,
00:14Sweet 16 into the Elite Eight.
00:16No more Cinderella slippers out there,
00:18all power five conferences,
00:19and I really wanted to see if some of the underdogs
00:22not only could win games, but just hang around.
00:25Four games yesterday, two favorites covered,
00:27two underdogs covered.
00:29I figured we'd get at least four and four
00:30in the Sweet 16 into the Elite Eight,
00:32and also the chance to maybe have a five and three,
00:35six and two run here with some of the underdogs
00:37which weren't coming in in those first two rounds.
00:40But yesterday, Duke was just better.
00:41You see the final score.
00:42Yes, you got the cover,
00:44but Duke, as you said, Joe, to open the show,
00:45close to 20-point lead in the second half here.
00:47They basically held them at arm's length
00:50and were able to pick up the victory and move on.
00:52Yeah, and that was the bottom line,
00:54is that that game was really never in doubt
00:57with Duke and Arizona.
01:00I mean, Duke was clearly the better team.
01:02Cooper Flagg kind of just took the ball last night
01:05and just said, enough is enough.
01:08We're not losing this game, and that was the end of that.
01:12So, I mean, you know, he goes in, he drops 30 points,
01:15and whenever they needed a bucket
01:16or they needed a defensive play,
01:18he seems to have been around there.
01:21I mean, how many more alley-oops
01:23are you gonna give up, Arizona,
01:25with the one-handed slams?
01:27It's like, come on, you gotta be kidding me.
01:29But listen, we knew Duke.
01:32I didn't think Arizona was gonna be the team to beat Duke.
01:35I thought if anybody's gonna take Duke down
01:37on that side of the bracket,
01:39Alabama poses the greatest risk
01:42for the Duke Blue Devils here.
01:44It's the matchup we're going to get,
01:46but Arizona made it interesting.
01:47I don't know necessarily.
01:49It felt like Duke did take their foot off the gas
01:53a little bit late in that game,
01:55and that's why it got as close as it did.
01:57But Duke is the best free-throw shooting team
01:59left in the tournament right now,
02:02and you saw that last night
02:04because Arizona kept trying to get back into it,
02:07but every time they did, they kept making their free throws,
02:09and that was the end of it.
02:10Game over.