Indiana by far.
They’re national title contenders, we aren’t. We are I think just starting to get our feet underneath us after 10yrs of crap. At least I hope we are.
Duke has lost to Lehigh and Mercer in recent years in the tournament. To think we aren’t capable of losing to any team that gets hot for one night is ridiculous.
It was a bad, brutal loss. Terrible. Coach knew it on the postgame too.
That being said, I didn’t feel as bad as I did after the Elon loss last year. I mean, at least we were competitive and looked like we were decent on one side of the floor.
No where close to worse loss, but this is a bad one. They went D 1 in 2011 I think. We did choke, but we choked in the first half. We had them down by 15 and should have put them away. We didn’t and we lost. I don’t like saying well they got hot because we have been witnessing a lot of teams “get hot”. The reality isn’t they got hot - it is that we played some terrible D and rebounding is like a foreign language to us.
We got run by one of the worst teams in college basketball, at home. There is no spinning it. We suck shit through a straw, just like every other program on campus. Why any of us bothers with any of this is beyond me. Worst run D1 program in the nation.
I don’t know… Boston Univ. in Dec 1997 comes to mind. That was the same year we went 22-10, won the C-USA tourney by beating Cincy @ Cincy, beat UIC in the 1st round of the tournament and took Chapel Hill to OT and lost 93-83.
We lost ONE game at Halton all season long…Dec. 12th.
Losing to Saint Francis (PA) during the Final Four season of 1976-77 definitely ranks up there with one of the worst losses for us. But have to agree that losing to Upstate during what’s considered a rebuilding year for them really sucks. And FWIW, they joined the A-Sun in 2007, so they have been D-I for about a decade (2007-08 first season as a D-I program).