It was a good day for smart kids at the N.C.A.A. tournament. For the future lawyers and doctors-in-training, for the future Wall Street executives and potential judges, for the upcoming leaders of science. For those overachievers — in this case, the student-athletes from Yale and Duke — and for their overachieving classmates who watched them win their opening-round games.
The two top-tier academic institutions will meet in the round of 32 on Saturday in Providence, R.I., and that matchup will surely be a thrill for the alumni who have degrees from Yale and Duke on their walls.