In the short term, the answer is as clear as high-grade Amoco. That's the extremely short term, as in Monday; the Blue Devils are so confident of winning the NCAA men's basketball tournament that they requested their bonfire permit in October.
Furthermore, the students are so confident of beating Michigan State in the semifinals Saturday that the subject doesn't come up. The only discussions center on who their team will splatter in the final game. In the student bookstore this week, amid stacks of Final Four T-shirts, a young man had a question for a clerk: "When will you start selling the championship shirts?"
The Handcheck -
The handcheck is an illegal defensive technique in which a defender places his hand on an opposing ball handler to facilitate shadowing the opponent and to obstruct his ease of movement. Although the NCAA official rulebook expressly prohibits handchecking, Duke players execute this illegal defensive technique on every halfcourt defensive set. Duke players are immune from this particular rule and are never whistled for personal fouls as a result.
