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Good job U of A and let's make it look like 1997.

Been trying to talk myself into a path to victory and I cant do it. This team is way too fundamentally flawed to even have a puncher's chance. Duke has way too many dudes.
 

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Been trying to talk myself into a path to victory and I cant do it. This team is way too fundamentally flawed to even have a puncher's chance. Duke has way too many dudes.
Did you feel the same way about their playoff schedule in 97?
 
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Did you feel the same way about their playoff schedule in 97?
Ironically, I didn’t become a fan of Arizona until after we won the championship. That’s actually when I decided that I wanted to enroll there once I graduated high school, which was three years later
 

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Ironically, I didn’t become a fan of Arizona until after we won the championship. That’s actually when I decided that I wanted to enroll there once I graduated high school, which was three years later
They had a very hard row to toe. It was a fantastic run to the championship.
 

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I don't expect the Cats to beat Duke but looking at their schedule, Duke has only played 12 games vs quad 1 schools. They are 9-3. Hoping for a 2011 outcome.
 

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Been trying to talk myself into a path to victory and I cant do it. This team is way too fundamentally flawed to even have a puncher's chance. Duke has way too many dudes.
That’s where I’m at. I think they’re only shot is if they get unnaturally hot from 3.
 

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If Love gets hot it's anyone's game. I wouldn't put money on it and Lewis scares the hell out of me when he shoots the three. Go Cats
 

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It was an insane run.
Beating three of the bluest bloods in all of college history, rolling thru 30-2 Kansas with Paul Pierce, Scott Pollard and Jacques Vaughn, then beating UNC with Vince Carter and Antwan Jamison (I think) and then beating Kentucky in OT.

That was a legendary run, with Baby Bibby hitting every clutch shot they needed down the stretch.
 

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Valiant effort. Glad to see love had a great final game. They were jibbed by not getting the same flagrant call that Duke got. I’m glad the commentators skewered the refs for that bs. That could’ve been a huge call. Could’ve been 4-5 points instead of none on that possession and I believe it would’ve pulled them within 3 - where they never quite got to.
 
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Valiant effort. Glad to see love had a great final game. They were jibbed by not getting the same flagrant call that Duke got. I’m glad the commentators skewered the refs for that bs. That could’ve been a huge call. Could’ve been 4-5 points instead of none on that possession and I believe it would’ve pulled them within 3 - where they never quite got to.

Anyone who’s watched Duke basketball for the past 30+ years knew that it wasn’t gonna be officiated evenly. Cooper Flagg getting calls like Kobe was beyond ridiculous.
 

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That was a good fight the Cats put up tonight and they can be proud of this Sweet 16 appearance.
 

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Anyone who’s watched Duke basketball for the past 30+ years knew that it wasn’t gonna be officiated evenly. Cooper Flagg getting calls like Kobe was beyond ridiculous.
The last thing Arizona should complain about is the officiating............

They played well, played scrappy, Duke was resilient and will move on
 
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The last thing Arizona should complain about is the officiating............

They played well, played scrappy, Duke was resilient and will move on
The hook and hold that was called a common foul was a momentum changer.
 
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