After squeaking by in their previous two games by a combined total of three points when their opponents missed last-second chances from close range, the No. 1 seeded Duke Blue Devils could not quite come through this time.
Duke guard Tre Jones, center, covers his face as he walks off the court with teammates Zion Williamson and Cam Reddish after losing to Michigan State in the NCAA men's East Regional final college basketball game in Washington, Sunday, March 31, 2019. WASHINGTON -- Twenty minutes after his first and, in all likelihood, last season at Duke ended with an Elite Eight exit, Zion Williamson trudged through an arena hallway, his head down.
Actually, he was a player so dynamic, and Duke was a team so talented, that plenty of folks thought they were capable of anything -- including a national championship. "We obviously had some pretty big-name guys and they had a lot of hype around them and things like that," Jones said. "No one was jealous or insecure. Everyone just accepted it and had as much fun with it as we could."
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