SToday’s 75-61 win over UNC was both satisfying and painful. It was painful as Pat Ngongba started the match with a boot and Caleb Foster also finished the match with a foot.
Ngongba’s situation isn’t that serious: the injury report said it would be a game-time decision, and the decision was no. He should be back soon.
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To favor? Probably not. It didn’t look good.
But apart from that, it was a magnificent victory. Duke pulled away from the Heels and kept going. The lead eventually grew to 25 before Carolina cut that number to a more reasonable deficit.
Too little, too late, but still better than losing by 25. At that point, honestly, 30 seemed entirely possible.
Duke got monster performances from Cameron Boozer, Dame Sarr and Maliq Brown. The highlights are extremely fun to watch. It wasn’t a classic Duke-UNC game, the kind that leads Jay Bilas to say the rivalry never disappoints, but it was undeniably fun for Duke fans.
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