As Dennis Smith soared toward the rim at the end of NC State’s 84-82 win over Duke on Monday night, he might as well have been placing a comically large metal lock on the Blue Devils’ locker room.
See, Coach K ain’t pleased about this turn of events with his team. He is so unhappy, in fact, that he has banned his players from their own locker room. Per ESPN’s Dana O’Neil and Jeff Goodman, the players are not only barred from the locker room, they are also not allowed to wear any Duke gear.
I started that paragraph with a straight face but by the end of it I was grinning.