And the Tigers have done well to date.
Next up for Duke is a trip to Clemson and that's never been an easy trip for Duke and a dangerous trip for any ACC team, including, as we just saw, Louisville, even if it's not in Clemson.
The game is actually in Greenville as Littlejohn is being renovated.
As Barry Jacobs points out today, Clemson is one of the hotter ACC teams at the moment and if that's a bit of a surprise, it's at least partly a tribute to superior coaching.
Many of you may half remember Wilmington nearly upsetting Maryland a decade or so ago in the NCAA tournament; you may not remember that Brownell was the coach.