CHARLOTTE—The Duke Blue Devils unexpectedly went through the stages of grief at the men’s ACC tournament this week.
First there was sheer shock, with a 2.5-minute span on Thursday robbing the team of forward Maliq Brown to a dislocated shoulder that saw him eventually carted off to a nearby hospital. Worse, national player of the year front-runner Cooper Flagg rolled his ankle while going up for a rebound, causing him to be taken by wheelchair to an X-ray machine.
