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Dear Gary (on Duke and UNC)

Posted on: December 1, 2009 2:29 pm
Score: 132
 

Here's Tuesday's Dear Gary ...

Dear Gary : You made a big deal about Duke jumping North Carolina in the polls last week, and yet you jumped Duke ahead of North Carolina in the Top 25 (and one) this week. What happened to make you change your mind?

-- Dean

What happened?

Duke went to New York, beat Arizona State and Connecticut, that's what happened.

My initial point was that we shouldn't punish the Tar Heels and drop them to second in the ACC just because they tested themselves in New York with games against Ohio State and Syracuse (beat OSU, lost to the Orange) while Duke had yet to test itself at all. But that changed when Duke played Arizona State and UConn and won both somewhat easily. Now Duke has at least one quality win (to match UNC's quality win over Ohio State), but it doesn't have a loss like UNC's loss to Syracuse.

Advantage: Duke.
Category: NCAAB
Tags: Dear Gary Mailbag, Duke, North Carolina
 
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Gary Parrish is CBSSports.com's college basketball columnist. Contrary to popular belief, he does not use a tanning bed or anything unnatural to color his skin. He was simply tan the afternoon he took that picture, the result of lounging at a Las Vegas pool for five consecutive days.
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