(B/R Mag)
Luke Kennard stepped into the huddle. He was barely able to hear his coach over the Wake Forest crowd. He was used to the madness—a Duke team facing a road loss has long been a recipe for heckling and court-storming—but he wasn’t used to this: frenzied desperation in Duke’s timeout as its season spiraled out of control, with all eyes turning to him.
Less than six weeks remained before the beginning of this week’s ACC tournament, and Duke was reeling. Injuries to hyped freshmen, back surgery for head coach Mike Krzyzewski and Grayson Allen’s happy feet had grabbed top billing in college basketball’s most-watched soap opera.