Duke gave Syracuse a 20 point loss on Saturday afternoon in Cameron, and that sounds bad, but it was worse than that. Duke gave Syracuse a whupping - and without one of its best players.
Trevor Keels, injured at Florida State, watched this one from the bench and it didn’t much matter. Mark Williams only got one block and it didn’t much matter. Wendell Moore threw the ball off of Ted Valentine’s head and - well, it didn’t matter but a lot of people might have seen it as a public service.
Fact is, Duke had a 31 point lead, four starters hit 15 each and Syracuse was never really in this game.