Lies, damnable lies and statistics.
That’s Benjamin Disraeli. Or Mark Twain. Or your Uncle Fred, after you tried explaining immigration policy over the holidays.
I’m going to give you a bunch of statistics. But hopefully no lies and certainly no damnable lies.
Duke is 12 games into the season, deep enough to start looking at some of the amazing statistics that have the Blue Devils ranked number one in the AP poll and put them into some historical context.
None of those games have come against ACC competition of course. But Duke has played Kentucky, Auburn, Gonzaga, Indiana and Texas Tech, five teams that seem likely to earn high NCAA Tournament seeds next March and probably a team or two that will win a one-bid-conference tournament.