For the second straight year, Duke’s men's basketball season ends in victory and dejection.
Usually, a team that wins its last game has captured a championship of some sort. That’s not the case for the bedeviled Blue Devils. They finished last season with a victory over North Carolina and then never got to play in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament when the sport shut down on March 12, 2020. This time around, a day short of that bitter anniversary, a positive COVID-19 test knocked them out of the ACC tourney on the day they were supposed to play Florida State.