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Essay: Basketball Primer for Yalies, From a Dukie: It’s a Lot Like Squash

Greetings, Yalies!

As someone who has spent way too much of his dwindling mental capacity over the years obsessing over Duke basketball, our version of Skull and Bones that everyone gets to join, I can’t tell you how uplifting it is to find Yale, of all teams, as our opponent in Saturday’s game.

Here we were all ready to play Baylor, a team from a town best known for David Koresh and the Branch Davidian siege, and instead we get to play the only team in the tournament where players with names, faces and G.