Within a span of three days, the top-ranked Duke basketball team supplied a worthy candidate for both the program’s all-time list of greatest game-winners and its all-time list of injuries that instantly dampened sights of the near future.
Talk about going from one extreme to the other.
On Saturday, freshman starter Cam Reddish acted as an instant roadblock to Florida State fans who were seconds away from rushing the floor in Tallahassee by knocking down a game-winning 3-pointer just before the buzzer, sending Duke fans into a frenzy. About 51 hours later, fellow freshman starter Tre Jones acted as an instant roadblock to the pedal-to-the-metal joyride of Duke supporters when he suffered a shoulder injury, sending his fans to WebMD.