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Mission Impossible: How Do You Prepare for Zion Williamson on Short Notice?

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Leading up to Friday night’s 85-62 loss to Duke, North Dakota State head coach David Richman found a clip of Zion Williamson getting a steal and dunking in transition to show his team. He paused the clip, rewound it, showed it again and asked his team, “How many points is that worth?”

In November, Army prepped to play Duke in the second game of the season, five days after the Blue Devils wrecked Kentucky by 32 on national television and spent the next two days on SportsCenter. Head coach Jimmy Allen wouldn’t refer to the greatest college basketball player as "Zion" throughout the week and during the game; he was "No.