At the start of the season, the two most important storylines surrounded Texas and Duke, and how they would rebound from disapointing seasons and key players that left. If this week was any indication of how they are doing you would have thought that they were in "mid-march mode" as they have both had undefeated starts and got huge wins over ranked opponents. Texas defeated UCLA in the Pac 10-Big 12 Hardwood series at Pauley Pavillion and earlier beat Tennessee. Duke won the Maui Invitational by defeating Marquette in the final, the devils also have wins over Wisconsin, Illinois.
The Longhorns are doing very well by having DJ Augustin and AJ Abrams leading the way and with the loss of Kevin Durant, Texas seems more balanced. Right now I see Augustin as a top 5 finalist for the Wooden Award.
The last time most of america saw the Duke Blue Devils, they were being defeated by the VCU rams in the 1st Round of the NCAA tournament. This year the devils seem to be on a rampage and using methods of the Phoenix Suns offense, PG Greg Paulus has made strong improvements over the off-season. Kyle Singler has done an excellent job buy my favorite freshman so far is Nolan Smith, he reminds me of a young Chris Duhon.
If these two teams have this same kind of success in March Look out.....
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