Duke’s Most Shocking NCAA Tournament Defeats: Which Collapse Against UConn Still Haunts Fans?
By the standard of missed opportunities, this team might top any on this list. At least last year’s team of Cooper Flagg and Co., whom we could describe as similarly talented, made the Final Four.
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2. No. 1 Duke vs. No. 1 Houston, 2025 Final Four
Leading scorers: Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel
The best that can be said about last year’s loss is that it was a quality matchup, a fellow No. 1 seed, and it required a very questionable call by the officials.
The rest, well, let’s recall how Duke led by as much as 14 in that game, the fifth-largest blown lead in Final Four history, and by nine with less than three minutes left. Flagg appeared to deliver multiple daggers, but Houston just kept sticking around while the Blue Devils offense went absolute-zero cold, with only one field goal in the final 10 minutes.


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