The last two Elite 8’s won’t be classics if you’re a Duke fan, but in back to back years the Blue Devils dropped absolute heart breakers to end its season.
Tonight it was a 68-67 loss to the Michigan State Spartans that sent Tom Izzo‘s team to the Final Four and Mike Krzyzewski’s back to Durham.
There’s many things to point out that went wrong for the Blue Devils tonight.
In the first half, Duke led 30-21 with just over five minutes to go with a chance to create even more separation on Michigan State, but the Spartans closed the half on a 13-0 run to take a four point lead into the break.