After a tough game with Tennessee State, Duke gets a Wednesday matchup with Elon. Elon probably isn’t as talented as Tennessee State, but it is a very well coached team.
Like App State’s Jim Fox, Matt Matheney is a Davidson product, a former Bob McKillop assistant. He was both a quarterback and a point guard at Davidson.
Coaching at Davidson, much less Elon, isn’t like coaching in the ACC. If you gave those guys the resources that, say, NC State has, things would be very different.
So measuring success by records is misleading. Instead you measure success partly by records, yes, but also by how disciplined and intelligent those teams are.