Duke faces Kansas on Tuesday in the Champions Classic in Madison Square Garden.
Duke’s freshmen admitted to being nervous in the first exhibition game against Northwest Missouri State. The potential for nerves will be at a completely different level Tuesday, just 10 days later, but it’s part of playing for Duke. You just have to deal with big games.
Fortunately, no one is much better at getting Duke ready for the big stage (or for that matter learning from failure on the big stage) than Mike Krzyzewski.
He’s talked often about the value of failure and how to use it to create future success.