Next up for Duke is Eastern Michigan out of the MAC.
If you don’t know, the MAC, while perhaps a step down from the so-called power conferences, is still damned good.
Buffalo is #25 and just beat West Virginia but look down the list: these schools play some serious basketball: Akron, Kent State, Ohio, Miami, Bowling Green, Central, Eastern and Western Michigan, Toledo, Ball State and Northern Illinois.
And they aren’t Johnnie-come-latelies: Toledo has a Final Four under its belt, Toledo has always been a tough out and Akron is a passionate basketball school.
That doesn’t even get into the rest but Duke fans might remember that Gary Trent Sr.