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No, Duke Isn't in Trouble After Barely Escaping UCF

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The opening weekend of the NCAA tournament featured a glaring lack of surprise. Every team seeded first, second or third advanced to the Sweet 16, along with two No. 4s, one No. 5 and one No. 12, but even that on-paper Cinderella, Oregon, comes from a power-five conference. Chalk may have reigned supreme in the first two rounds of the tournament, but we’re still getting our fair share of overreaction from what we saw this weekend, the most ridiculous of which concerns the monumental upset that wasn’t in Columbia, S.