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The Duke Hype Train Needs A Break

It’s been a giddy few days for Duke fans but WRAL’s Jeff Gravley is right to say: pump the brakes a bit.

The bandwagon’s axles are creaking and we’re just one game in. When you start seeing stupid stuff like this and this and usually intelligent sites like SI.com start speculating about who can possibly beat them, we have two words for you: Chuck Wepner.

Wepner was a middling boxer who got a shot at Muhammad Ali and came closer than anyone dreamed to beating the champ.