The No.1-seeded Duke survived a near-March Madness upset at the hands of No. 16 Siena on Thursday afternoon, when the Saints took advantage of a sleeping Blue Devils squad to get out to an 11-point lead heading into halftime.
Duke ultimately rallied hard to take home a 71–65 first-round win, but the fact that the Saints even came close to knocking down the Devils was a feat unto itself—heck, even Duke's Maliq Brown admitted that his team thought this tilt would be a cakewalk. But Siena came to play (Gerry McNamara kept his starters in almost the whole time), and very nearly gave us what would have been one of the tournament's very best busts.
