It was a good tournament

[DTro]

The Duke Blue Devils were knocked out of the NCAA Tournament in the Sweet 16 on Thursday night, bringing the 2011 tournament to an early — but wildly successful — end.

“I’d like to thank all of the teams who participated in this year’s effort to have Duke’s season end hilariously in defeat on national television, or — as it’s better known: the NCAA Tournament,” said NCAA president Mark Emmert. “I think this will go down as one of the greatest tournaments of all-time. I mean, they got killed. It was great!”

Emmert also extended a special mention to the Arizona Wildcats for “putting a stake through the heart of the great satan.”

Arizona head coach Sean Miller said his team felt like champions.

“This is what any basketball player dreams about growing up: destroying Duke in the NCAA Tournament, repeatedly dunking on their heads and just humiliating them in front of the whole nation,” said Miller. “My guys are on top of the world. Because Duke is on the bottom.”

Miller said that he thought his team could have moved on and beaten more teams in the tournament, but didn’t see the point.

“That’s a weird question to ask,” he said. “Duke is eliminated. Why would we keep playing? College basketball season is over. Now is the time we all enjoy Duke losing and celebrate.”

With the NCAA Tournament at an end, CBS plans to air highlights shows of past Duke eliminations and clips of Arizona players dunking on Duke in place of the slots reserved for the Elite Eight and Final Four games. Those shows are expected to get equally high ratings.

[Scott M]

LMITOUT do we need to cue up "Sad Eyes"?

The Onion or Sports Pickle?

[DTro]

SP

[mrklean]

haha nice, duke are the yankees of college basketball, i love watching them get beat

[LMITOUT]

I have the three refs from that game advancing to play UConn in the region final. (Mike Nance, Tom Eades, and John Higgins)

Good luck Kemba.

Tough to win when you're playing 5 against 8.

[Big Tom]

I have the three refs from that game advancing to play UConn in the region final.

Good luck Kemba.

Tough to win when you're playing 5 against 8.

I missed it. How many points did the refs score?

[PierBridge]

There goes your boards LMITOUT....all of EM!... It was like hitting a 2 team parley having the Dookys and the Badge sent packing!

[LMITOUT]

There goes your boards LMITOUT....all of EM!...

Nope. Didn't have them going any further than anyone else, and less than some.

The pieces are in place.

[Scott M]

It's hard to win when you keep giving up zero footers. Singler and the Plumlee twins are going to be on a few Derrick Williams posters.

[PierBridge]

Nope. Didn't have them going any further than anyone else, and less than some.

The pieces are in place.

Yeah right!

[LMITOUT]

Anybody that actually watched the game and didn't just look at the box score this morning saw what happened and how biased it was in the second half.

Today I was talking to different people at different times and they all said, "What the *#$@" was up with that game last night?!?!!?". This was before I said anything about it and these are not Duke fans whatsoever. I hesitate to blame the refs because I don't want to be "that guy", AKA Vikings' fan, but when I hear others saying it then I know it's not just my Duke-colored glasses that I was looking through last night in disbelief and my observations were validated. I was actually laughing at one point it was so ridiculous.

That game last night was a total crock and an embarrassment to officiating, but if you're a Duke hater then you never saw what was really going on and there isn't much of a point of trying to convince you otherwise. Nice attempt by the zebras to call a few cheapies on Arizona towards the end to even up the foul count though.

Looks like we're stuck on four championships for another year. Oh well, can't expect to win it every season. It sucks being an elite team year after year after year......

[Scott M]

LOL! So it is possible to agitate a gadfly! Thank you!

[LMITOUT]

LOL! So it is possible to agitate a gadfly! Thank you!

Only when there has been an injustice.

[zepman]

There goes your boards LMITOUT....all of EM!... It was like hitting a 2 team parley having the Dookys and the Badge sent packing!

+1!

I watched the whole game. One thing was very clear...Arizona was quicker and more importantly STRONGER than the Dukies.

It was an "in your face" type of exhibition and I loved the whole game...especially the disbelief in the Dukies bench towards the end of the game.

[Scott M]

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