'Losing sucks:' How Jon Scheyer, Duke are using heartbreaking losses as fuel

DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA -- Duke head coach Jon Scheyer woke up one midsummer morning and steeled himself.

"Today's the day," he told himself.

He knew it had to happen at some point in the offseason, and decided it was finally time: He was going to rewatch Duke's Elite Eight loss to UConn for the first time.

It wasn't a task circled on his to-do list, necessarily, but Scheyer knew rewatching that game had to be part of his usual offseason process.

"Losing sucks. And losing in a way you never think you're going to lose sucks," he told ESPN in September. "But how you got there, you can't forget. You can't diminish that stuff, either. I was very cautious. If I didn't watch that game, I would've…