Survive the hate and advance — a mantra only Duke basketball fans can fully comprehend.
The first two rounds of the ongoing “March Madness” to decide the Team of the Decade all-star squad saw top-seed Duke fight past the haters to edge out No. 16 Murray State and No. 8 Xavier — with a ridiculously low 62 percent of fans’ votes for each matchup.
But the true nailbiter came next. With 52 percent of the votes when the Twitter poll closed Sunday morning, the chosen all-decade starting five for the Blue Devils — Nolan Smith, Grayson Allen, Kyle Singler, Zion Williamson, and Jahlil Okafor — held off No.