The Duke men’s basketball team is playing its best basketball of the season. Duke has won four straight ACC games for the first time this season, 68-64 over Notre Dame, 77-55 over Syracuse, 79-62 over Louisville and 81-65 over Virginia Tech.
Now there are reasons to temper exuberance, Two of those wins were over likely NIT teams, two were over teams that can’t even dream of the NIT. Duke let Notre Dame hang around too long and that awful start against Louisville brought back some bad memories.
But, still. Things are looking up. Like all team sports, this improvement is a result of both individual improvements and improvements in the area of cohesion.
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