Kyle Keller woke up this past Nov. 26 feeling pretty good about his Stephen F. Austin team's game that night at Cameron Indoor Stadium against top-ranked Duke. He had told his players the night before that they had nothing to fear playing against an iconic school and coach in an iconic setting.
"The banners aren't going to beat us," he'd said. "Remember, we've won 24 conference championships in our history — just like they've won all sorts of conference titles. In our league [the Southland Conference], we're Duke. We're everybody's biggest game, just like they are year in and year out.