If you guys don't mind, I want to take the time to say what a great year it was for Duke.
Going into the season I was as down as I can remember being. We were coming off the Lehigh loss. It came out that Dawkins would sit out the year. Seth Curry suffered his leg injury right before the season and some feared that he may miss the whole season. Plus I wasn't a big believer in Quinn Cook, so the PG situation was a question mark for the team. To make it the Elite 8 and lose to the clear cut best team in the country IMO, on the road basically, is nothing to be ashamed about. Some may not view this as a successful season for Duke, given that we didn't win the ACC regular season/tournament or make the Final Four but, making it past the Sweet 16 which has hunted us recently (05 vs MSU, 06 vs LSU, 09 vs Villanova, 11 vs Arizona), winning 30 games and sweeping UNC makes this a successful year in my eyes. It sucks our senior trio of Plumlee/Curry/Kelly didn't make the Final Four though. They're probably my favorite senior class ever (even over the Scheyer/Thomas/Zoubek class or the Smith/Singler one) because of the growth they had from role player/limited player/transfer in 2010 to a legitimate big man/do everything stretch 4/best player on the team in 2013. I'll miss those guys.

Also, Congrats on Louisville fans and the fans of the rest of the Final 4 teams. I think I have to pull for Louisville because I'm a fan of Pitino and the Louisville players. I also hope they win one for Kevin Ware.
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