Is the mens Duke Blue Devils basketball team title contenders or just overrated?

Tonight the Duke's mens basketball team started off the week becoming the new number 1 team in the country after the Louisville Cardinals lost over the weekend against the Syracuse Orangemen. The Blue Devils opponent starting off this week was a very good Miami Hurricane basketball team that has knocked off good opponents in the ACC confereance especially North Carolina. Leading up to this matchup the Blue Devils are coming off an impressive win against the university of Georgia Tech, and Miami  has been on a role winning the past five of seven games. Winning this game tonight was a huge step for a young Hurricane team to gain confidence with just a few weeks left in the season before conference tournament play starts. The Hurricanes are lead by sophmore point guard Shane Larkin who is the son of hall fame baseball player Barry Larkin and a senior cast that could make this team very diffcult to beat when tournament time comes around. Tonight the Blue Devils just showed me that they are overrated and arent a number one team by losing by 27 points. They had gotten run out of the gym tonight to where it ended up being an embrassment to future hall of fame basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski he looked lost for words midway throught the game. You knew he gave up when he benched his three key starters early in the second half of the game when they still had a chance to comeback to win. No matter what the score is they shouldn't have given up on the game so early in the second half. Miami was able to execute there offensive game plan with ease which made Duke look like a high school basketball team out there. Duke really needs to take a step back and figure out what needs to change to make sure an embarassment like this doesnt happen again. Duke shot just 30.1 percent in its loss today, the 2nd-worst performance by a No. 1 team in a loss since the 1996-97 season.

Duke's 27-point loss was tied for the school's sixth-largest loss under Coach Krzyzewski. Duke is the seventh Top-5 team in the last two weeks to lose. The Blue Devils are also the victim of two of the three losses by the top-ranked team in that span. I hope with this lost that they would consider to drop the Blue Devils out of the top 5 or even the top 10. Duke was outrebounded on offense and on defense which allowed Miami to get alot of fast break points and points in the paint which they arent very good in these categories. Dukes and Miami's schedule doesnt get any easier after this game, Duke heads onto play Wake Forest University and Miami heads onto play a Florida State team who is a scrappy bunch of players and will give Miami a challenge. We will see what happens when they take the court on there next game but tonight showed that Duke really misses there forward Ryan Kelly who is one of there key contributors to there offense. I think Duke has alot to do to make people believe that they are contenders for the National Title and with this win I think Miami really helped themselves make people realize who they are and a team not to take lightly.

I apologize for not having posted after the games on sunday but my predictions actually came true which i was totally surprised. This years Superbowl is going to be a good one and this is the first time two brothers as head coaches will face off to play one another. I cant wait for this years Superbowl because it is going to be a hard hitting teams battling it out in New Orleans.  For Hockey i am going to wait alittle longer just because it is to early to talk and discuss what has been going on ice ring. I will be back on tommorrow night after the battle in the Atlantic Division between the Knicks and the Celtics they are out for revenge lets see what happens tomorrow night after the game.  Please continue to comeback onto my log for more of my input of the games going on around the country. Also i would really appreciate it if you guys could leave me comments on what is good or what is bad in what needs to be improved.