That wasn’t as much fun as it could be: Arizona came to Cameron and took down Duke, 78-73.
Arizona played like a stronger, more confident and more mature team, which really showed up in rebounding: the Wildcats grabbed 45 total to Duke’s 33 and killed the Devils on the offensive boards, 15-8. We’ll come back to that in a bit.
And unfortunately, Duke just made a lot of mistakes. They weren’t necessarily the kind of mistakes that result in turnovers or even necessarily obvious mistakes. Sometimes it was shooting too fast. On a couple of occasions Duke took shots that not only seemed rushed, but also seemed to come when no one was nearly close enough to rebound.