A Win is a Win is a Win is a Win

They don't give points for style in March Madness so for all you haters that want to shit on Duke for barely escaping 15 seed Belmont, Eat A Dick.

You all should be thankful for actually getting to enjoy a good game. The rest of the games sucked balls yesterday so it was nice to have a nailbiter.

Duke doesn't make excuses so I will make one for them. Every last one of the starting five and the majority of the coaching staff is flu bitten. More than half the team had IV bags jammed in them 20 mins before the tip and no one was able to practice the few days prior to the game.

Who knows, maybe tomorrow the officials will actually decide to call an even game and with a little rest, maybe the boys will get some legs beneath them again. Regardless, I'm predicting a Duke win by a minimum of 15 points.

From DBR -

I know the family of one of our coaches. Right now, Coach K, Coach Collins, Singler, Nelson, McClure and King have the flu (or a really bad respiratory illness), over the past few days Paulus, Scheyer and Zoubek had it.As DBR pointed out (and as I saw with him during the game), Nelson was coughing pretty bad throughout the game and during the post-game interview.

Of course this is terrible timing. The good news is that we have today off, and didn't have to play the late, late game yesterday. The doctors can give everyone saline IV's today to help them stay hydrated, and we can rest a ton.The bad news is that 41 hours isn't really enough time to fully recover.

We should feel stronger - but not 100%....and Henderson could catch this as well. West Virginia plays a slow tempo kind of game. That might be a good thing for us. Then again, they don't turn the ball over, and this will likely come down to a half court game with the winner being whoever hits their shots. The frustrating thing is that if we do win on Saturday, then come next Thursday our team will feel like supermen (that wonderful feeling when you are back from being sick and feel like you can fly - mainly because you feel so much better than you did). We would be a force the first game of the Sweet 16. We just need to get there. Hope they heal quickly. Got a bad feeling though.

West Virginia is healthy, they will have the crowd supporting them, and our team is far less than 100%. Trouble.