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• 0:00 Those legal eagles, ByrdCampbell earn our thanks once again.
• 0:30 Jason is in an unfamiliar place… and so is Sam.
• 2:40 We recap the Florida game, and Jason begins by asking, “Did you think we would win when we were down by 17 points?”
• 6:30 Sam says, “Duke looked around and said, ‘Hey, we’re better than this,’” and with that the Blue Devils took control of the game
• 9:10 We sing the praises of Florida. Donald is really impressed and says Florida will be a contender all season long
• 9:55 Jason unveils his unified theory of the 2017-18 season… it boils down to one word: Rebounding!
• 14:10 Donald talks about Marvin Bagley, and we wonder where he ranks among the all-time greats at Duke, freshmen or otherwise.
• 18:30 Donald brings up ESPN’s “odds of winning the game” silliness. Duke was a decided underdog at times during the tournament.
• 22:10 Jason brings up some other folks who played well, starting with Wendell Carter, who was great down the stretch against Florida.
• 25:00 Donald: “It is almost like Jay Bilas got married last night to a woman named Second Jump because he was in love with it…”
• 26:50 We turn to the Texas game, which Jason says was “The dawn of the Alex O’Connell era”
• 32:20 Sam discusses the shot chart from the Texas game, and how every shot was made in the paint.
• 34:50 Donald points out that we lead the nation in points in the paint… and Jason wonders how scary good we will be in a few months when the youngsters mature.
• 37:55 Jason wonders if we need to lose a game to really learn the lessons we need to be truly great.
• 40:30 Sam is forced to eat crow over his earlier prediction that Duke would not develop the bench.
• 50:25 ByrdCampbell is the choice of Dukies in FL and TX for legal advice
• 51:10 Jason previews the ACC-Big Ten challenge and our mediocre opponent, Indiana
• 58:15 Sam sidetracks us into a conversation about the amazing Minnesota-Alabama game which turned into an insane 5-on-3 contest… and the 3 almost won!
• 1:03:20 Jason wants to know how much we should blame Richard Pitino for not being able to coach Minnesota better against the 3-man Alabama team.
• 1:09:05 We turn to Duke Football and Jason admits he lost faith in this team and they proved him wrong by winning their last 2 games to make it to a bowl game.
• 1:15:25 Player of the week… which we are re-naming the non-Bagley Player of the Week
• 1:19:35 Parting Shots – Donald with some love for the Duke women’s soccer team
• 1:21:15 Parting Shots – Sam congratulates Matt Luke, a Cut disciple, for becoming the new head coach at Ole Miss and then Sam tries to curry favor with noted Duke billionaire David Rubenstein.
• 1:23:25 Parting Shots – Jason tips his cap to JWill, who was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame alongside some other legends, some of whom Sam has never heard of!
• 1:25:30 We want your stories about your earliest basketball memories. Send them to us at DBRPodcast@gmail.com
• 1:28:15 Goodbye and the Duke band plays us home