Duke defeated Virginia Union 106-64 Tuesday night, the first of two exhibition games before the season begins for real.
No surprise and no real reason for a traditional play-by-play. Virginia Union led a couple of times early, the last at 8-7 before R.J. Barrett scored 11 points in about as long as it took to type this sentence and it was 18-10 and the rout was on.
So, it’s easy to dismiss this as nothing more than a glorified scrimmage.
But five of these guys had never played a game in Cameron before and even Barrett, who’s represented Canada internationally with great success, admitted he was nervous.