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Duke sends big-picture message with its Boiler beatdown

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The popular game in college basketball right now is guessing who, if anyone, will arise to legitimately challenge the 800-pound, powder-blue gorilla named North Carolina. The answer is down the road. The answer is Duke. Overlooked, off-radar Duke. Really. For the first time since Jeff Capel was a player, not a coach, the Blue Devils are not swimming in overexposure. That's partly due to some major March pratfalls in recent years, and partly due to the sprawli ...

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