[jasontoddwhitt]

Quote: Originally Posted by DamnYanks2

I could write forever about last night but I won't. But it was wild being on the other side of this one. Duke felt like Kentucky in past years. Young and talented. But just ran outta gas in the end. Kentucky won because Pope made adjustments at the half. The defense was cranked way up in the second half, and minus Flagg, Duke got bottled up and Kentucky kept the pressure on them the entire half and in the end "Experience won out over young talent" And Pope really ran circles around Scheyer in those final 2 or 3 minutes. Especially the last two plays it seemed like Scheyer just let a 17 year flagg go make a play. And that's tough. As good as he is. Everyone knew who it was going to and he got trapped in no man's land. I couldn't dream of a better start to the Pope era. You can't win over this fan base any quicker then beating Duke 3 weeks in.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Here's an interesting nugget from Twitter...

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Last night at Champions Classic, teams used a Spalding basketball that teams don’t normally play with Kansas shot 29% from 3 Duke shot 17% from 3 Michigan St shot 12% from 3 Kentucky shot 40% from 3…and Pope said afterwards the team practiced with the Spalding ball all week