It’s only natural that Duke — the No. 1 overall seed in the men’s NCAA tournament and a blue blood — would look at No. 16 seed Siena and take the Saints a little lightly.
But it’s an entirely different thing to admit that out loud … during the game.
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That’s exactly what Duke’s Maliq Brown did in a shocking halftime interview. With the Blue Devils trailing Siena by 11 at halftime, CBS reporter Tracy Wolfson caught up with Brown to discuss what was going wrong for Duke.
The senior forward admitted that Duke thought Siena would be a “cakewalk” and that the team was a little nervous in the first half.
He said:
“Like I said, we thought it was going to be a cakewalk going into this game. So now we know what it is and we just gotta respond the way we usually do.”
After Virginia and Purdue lost to 16-seeds, you’d think Duke would respect its opponent more. But that clearly wasn’t the case early on in Thursday’s game.
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