Duke’s Most Shocking NCAA Tournament Defeats: Which Collapse Against UConn Still Haunts Fans?
It was a mortifying collapse. But also not Duke’s most mortifying collapse of the past two years.
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3. No. 1 Duke vs. No. 2 Michigan State, 2019 Elite Eight
Leading scorers: Zion Williamson, R.J. Barrett
Williamson’s NBA career has been rockier than expected, but it cannot be forgotten how much a sensation he was in his only year with Duke, or how he was only their third-best freshman on some recruiting rankings.
Williamson, Barrett and Cam Reddish gave Duke the top three recruits in the country and they absolutely lived up to the hype (in aggregate). That team felt almost inevitable, then No. 2 seed Michigan State showed it was no slouch either. In one of Tom Izzo’s best coaching jobs, the Spartans withstood some inhuman stuff from Williamson to beat the tournament’s top overall seed.


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