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Duke basketball program reveals recruiting weapon unlike any other

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Duke basketball animation should help attract even more five-star recruits.

The Duke basketball creative team drew mixed reviews from Countdown: The Movie on Friday night (below, for those who haven’t yet watched). This served as a replacement to Countdown to Craziness, the annual celebration that energizes the fanbase for the season ahead.

Some of the grumpier fans on social media and message boards complained that some segments were borderline cringeworthy.

Plenty of others, however, viewed every single minute as nothing short of a cinematic masterpiece, outside of their desire for it to have been significantly longer than 35 minutes:

But no matter which side of the fence folks sat, it seems most everyone was in agreement that the film’s creators exhibited total animation domination in the Brotherhood Big Splash portion.