Duke Edges Tennessee 83-76 in Final Exhibition Matchup

I’m not a huge proponent of change in college basketball, not because I’m an old head (which I am) but because the sport has always been beautiful the way it is. What I do like are the trends of college coaches putting their teams through the paces earlier in the season. I’ve always been ok with coaches ramping up competition slowly, that’s certainly a valid way to get your team ready for March, but to be able to schedule really tough games in with no real consequence as early as you can be an invaluable thing. I’m glad Jon Scheyer as adopted this way of scheduling there’s not much you can do in the way of practice to simulate live game action where you can run your plays, routines in a game situation, with a crowd and with a coach trying their best to try to stop you.

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