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Dear Old Duke: ‘It feels like home’

By Bre Bradham Local and National News Editor

For the fifth and, for now, final installment of the Dear Old Duke photo series, we look at three professors from different walks of campus—a linguist, a lawyer and a composer. Edna Andrews studies language and the brain, Deborah DeMott teaches art law and Stephen Jaffe is a composer.

Edna Andrews Edna Andrews arrived on campus in 1984 and she hasn’t left Duke since. She is the chair of the linguistics program at Duke, the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus distinguished professor of Slavic and Eurasian studies and a professor of linguistics and cultural anthropology. She’s involved with the FOCUS program, and her research now focuses on the intersection of language and neuroscience— particularly through a longitudinal fMRI study on language acquisition and multilingualism.

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Former FBI Deputy Director Blue Devils’ season ends one game shy of Final McCabe to visit Four with nail-biting overtime loss to Kansas Duke in April

Ian Jaffe | Photography Editor Wendell Carter Jr. fouled out in overtime after converting two key buckets in a row late in regulation and only played 22 minutes.

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By Bre Bradham Local and National News Editor

Until a few months ago, Duke alum Andrew McCabe was deputy director of the FBI and, after then-FBI Director James Comey’s departure, the Bureau’s acting director. He was then fired from the Bureau by Attorney General Jeff Sessions less than two days before he was eligible for a government pension.

Now, he’s coming to campus to speak.

Duke’s Program in American Grand Strategy is set to host McCabe for a talk on April 13 in Page Auditorium. The event is called “Leadership Challenges in National Security: A Conversation with Andrew McCabe.” Peter Feaver, professor of political science and director of the AGS program, will interview McCabe at the event.

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OMAHA, Neb.—There couldn’t have been more at stake Sunday evening—two of college basketball’s most storied programs on the floor with a trip to San Antonio on the line.

Yet after 29 wins, five months of basketball and one dramatic overtime period, the Blue Devils’ season came to a screeching halt.

Despite a fiery start for Trevon Duval and a second-half resurgence

by Wendell Carter Jr., top-seeded Kansas eked past No. 2 seed Duke at the CenturyLink Center to claim the last spot in the national semifinals with an 85-81 overtime victory. The Blue Devils had a chance to win it in regulation, but Grayson Allen’s floater off the glass just rimmed out at the buzzer.

“We wanted to be the team at the end of the year winning. No one wants to end with a loss like that. It’s so abrupt. The end of the game comes and it’s over,” Allen said. “It hurts. You can’t say much more than that.”

As the clock ticked under three minutes in the extra period, Jayhawk guard Malik Newman drove hard to the hole, drawing a blocking foul on Carter to disqualify the big man. But the Kansas redshirt sophomore managed just one of two at the stripe, leveling the game again, this time at 76.

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After a Blue Devil timeout, Duval drove down the right side and sank a hook shot, only to see Newman knock down a pair on the other end to tie things again.

Newman—who finished with a career-high 32 points, including five triples—then canned a 3-pointer in the corner opposite the Jayhawk bench with 1:49 to play, putting Kansas in front for good.

“He’s been their hottest player. He basically continued to do what he does,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “But their four perimeter players, it’s very difficult to concentrate on stopping one. Graham in the first half was the guy. And that’s why they’re as good as they are…. They’ve got four really good options. But [Newman’s] been really hot.”

The Blue Devils (29-8) held a 68-67 at the final media timeout of regulation thanks to consecutive buckets by Carter. From there, after the Jayhawks slipped back ahead on a thunderous alley-oop, a pair of Allen free throws put Duke back on top with just less than two minutes to play.

And even after a quiet day, the Blue Devil captain kept it going, drawing another foul and calmly drilling two more to give Duke a 72-69 lead. The Blue Devils could not convert on a chance to ice it on their next possession before Svi See M. BASKETBALL on Page 5

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TC: Looking at the University as a whole, what do you think has changed the most since then?

EA: “The students have always been outstanding. I think we’ve lost some flexibility as we’ve grown. So I love the degrees of freedom, of flexibility. I think we have done a great job of moving forward with multidisciplinarity. I think Duke is one of the best schools in the country, and multidisciplinary research is a hallmark of the institution and one of the things that allows faculty to really work across boundaries in a profound way. It’s not just research, it’s also teaching and friendships.”

Edna Andrews: “So I came in 1984, right out of graduate school. I was 25, it was my first job. I had other job offers, including Yale, but I decided to stay here. So here I am.”

The Chronicle: What’s changed since you first came here?

EA: “When I first came I was teaching mainly Russianrelated courses, but now primarily teach neuroscience courses with a focus on brain and languages...Our neurolinguistic lab published the first, or the only, longitudinal fMRI study of second and third language acquisition. I work with DIBS— the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences—and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.”

TC: What was the period when you kind of shifted your research focus?

EA: “So that was in the early 1990s. I started working in a neurobiology lab with a colleague in neurobiology—around 1993. It was also around that time that we started the linguistics major. Then a few years after that—1997, 1998—that we started the Ph.D. program in linguistics, but we housed the linguistics Ph.D. through English. But the undergraduate program was

TC: What do you think is the University’s direction going forward and what are you most excited about with it?

EA: “I am the director of the FOCUS program, and FOCUS is part of the Strategic Plan. I am very excited about how that is going to play out—that we are going to have some modest growth, that we are maintaining our commitment to all major disciplinary directions—the natural and biological sciences, social sciences and humanities. And I think that small group learning and building of communities at the first year, first semester level is essential to a successful undergraduate experience.”

TC: You mentioned that you came here right out of graduate school and you’re still here, so what does it mean to you to spend such a long time at Duke?

EA: “Well, it feels like home. You’re comfortable here, you build long-term relationships with colleagues and students. You’re here, and they can come back 20 years later and re-connect.”

Deborah DeMott Deborah DeMott came to Duke in 1975, and is currently the David F. Cavers professor of law in the School of Law. Her research focuses on business, agency and tort law. One of her long-standing interests is, however, visual art, which was influential in her decision to create a course on art law.

Deborah DeMott: “I joined the Law School faculty in 1975.

At that point I lived in Chapel Hill and I taught, at that point, a course on contracts and I taught corporate law—which here is called business associations.”

The Chronicle: For you, what are some things that have changed since then?

DD: “Many things have changed since then. First of all, just for starters, the Law School building has changed dramatically since then…What I teach now is completely different. It strikes me that many distinguished, long term academics in the humanities, like the Meyerses, tend to continue teaching and doing scholarship and writing about not the same thing, but closely linked inquiries. Changes in many things at Duke and the Law School, including the expansion of the faculty, have meant that I no longer teach the business courses. So there was a period when I was also teaching corporate finance; I no longer teach that. I teach what is typically a large-enrollment class on tort law in the first year. So wonderfully once again I am teaching first-year students, which is great. In the interim in my career, I worked on a long study and book on the law of agency—when one person has legal power to represent another…

Then, the other big thing that happened for me in regards to my teaching and writing, I actually date, at Duke, to the opening of the Nasher Museum. I’ve had a lifetime interest in the visual arts in many dimensions and the world of art, then when I became a lawyer in how transactions take place. Lots of transactions that involve significant works of art are through agents, like dealers or auction houses… I have long found that

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DUKE FROM PAGE 2 looking at art and thinking about works of visual art really enriched my life.

Then with the opening of the Nasher Museum, I was open to persuasion by the founding director of the Nasher that the Law School should have a course in art law…and then that I should teach it. It really didn’t take that much persuasion… That’s been… gratifying and satisfying. It’s been wonderful to watch the museum find itself and define itself as a museum that matters.”

Stephen Jaffe Stephen Jaffe is the Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans professor of music composition, and he has been at Duke since 1981. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012 and has received the Kennedy Center’s Friedhiem Award.

The Chronicle: What’s going on in your life now? Are you teaching classes?

Stephen Jaffe: “Oh yeah, I’m very involved in teaching.

One of the things that I’ve been a part of at Duke is building a graduate program in composition. That’s one of the things I was brought here with the hope of shaping such an initiative, and now we have an absolutely fabulous program with students from all around the world. It’s an absolutely thriving place. We partner with Duke Performances, with the North Carolina Symphony and with our colleagues in the department. Our students are doing the most exciting things, it’s kind of a dream. We’re now going through applicants for next year, and they are also quite diverse musically, by culture and background, and they have musical interests that could not even have occurred to me in the 1980’s, in part because they weren’t born yet and the technology has changed so much. It’s very exciting…

I’m continuing to write. I’m working on a collaborative project with four composers now, and the writer Richard Powers, called “A Forest Unfolding.” It’s all about people’s relationships with forests—historically, scientifically…

I’m also writing a symphony for orchestral winds, which is very exciting. I still have the same desire and passion to do it that I did 30 years ago. I’m still up all night, because that’s a great time to work. It’s when it’s very quiet, no distractions.

Just write. So that’s really fun.”

“Andrew McCabe has been at the center of some of the FBI’s highest-profile activities and so is well-positioned to speak to the range of national security issues the Bureau has had to address,” Feaver wrote in a statement about the event.

McCabe, Trinity ’90, graduated from Duke with an undergraduate degree in political science before joining the FBI in 1996. He recently made national headlines for being on the receiving end of criticism from President Donald Trump over his handling of the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton.

“In particular, McCabe has precisely the right background and experience to address a question that has been hotly debated in the media—how effectively is the Bureau managing its national security portfolio and how much confidence should the American public have in this vital institution?” Feaver wrote.

McCabe—who has served in the FBI for more than 20 years— has been involved with a number of high profile cases over the years, ranging from overseeing the Bureau’s national security programs during the Edward Snowden investigation to being the deputy director during recent investigations into former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, as well as Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

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‘I WOULDN’T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING’ Grayson Allen’s career ends in heartbreak after tantalizing roll off the rim at the end of regulation

By Sameer Pandhare Associate Sports Editor

OMAHA, Neb.—As Grayson Allen worked for a final shot against Malik Newman in the closing seconds of regulation, Duke’s captain had a chance for another signature moment— one that would almost certainly play in videos before the beginning of any game in Cameron Indoor Stadium for years to come.

Once the ball left the senior’s hands, the CenturyLink Center fell nearly silent after reaching a fever pitch just seconds earlier in one of the most memorable NCAA tournament games in recent history. Allen’s floater banked off the glass and hit every part of the rim before spinning off the mark and robbing the guard of another careerdefining moment.

A few minutes later, Allen’s college career was complete, as the Blue Devils fell to Kansas 85-81 in the Elite Eight.

“That thing rolled around the rim about four times. I thought it was going in. It’s not a good feeling,” Allen said. “It’s like a shock to your body.

You don’t plan for a loss. You just expect to keep going and going. It’s so abrupt when it hits you.

It’s just boom, and it’s over.”

In many ways, the ups and downs that Duke fans felt as Allen’s shot rolled and rolled around the rim do justice to the kind of career the Jacksonville, Fla., native had as a Blue Devil.

After rescuing the Blue Devils in the 2015 national title game against Wisconsin, Allen transformed into one of Duke’s leading scorers as a sophomore. But with increased scrutiny in the light of his tripping incidents, Allen’s career was painted in a less than favorable light outside of the friendly confines in Durham.

Injury-plagued shooting struggles during his junior season did not move the needle much for Allen. As a senior, he regained his captaincy and improved his percentages from the field, but still struggled with consistency.

All of which made this weekend in Omaha the chance for Allen to mold his reputation one more time and cement his place in Blue Devil lore with another trip to the Final Four.

Instead, the senior was largely ineffective, shooting just 7-of-28 in the two games

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Grayson Allen’s floater that could have put Duke in the Final Four bounced off the glass and rolled off the rim at the of regulation. combined and missing 18 of his 23 attempts As easy as it is to look at the box score from beyond the arc. Time and time again, and pin blame on Allen’s shoulders, Sunday’s Duke had looks it would certainly live with, performance by the Blue Devils was a but simply could not testament to some of the sink enough to pull It’s like a shock to the body. strides Allen has made ahead of the guard- You don’t plan for a loss. You with his teammates off heavy Jayhawks. the floor. just expect to keep going “I still shoot the same Consider that a shots and expect them and going. It’s so abrupt. team playing four to go in,” Allen said. “A grayson allen freshman starters stood SENIOR GUARD pound-for-pound with lot of them hit the rim twice, bounced around. a blueblood starting But, I mean, I’m still going to take the open all upperclassmen without batting an eye shots. That’s our offense. That’s a Duke shot for nearly 40 minutes. In many ways, Allen’s when I take an open three.” biggest value to the team was shepherding his

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Allen’s four free throws gave the Blue Devils a late lead in regulation, though they could not hang on and he finished his career just shy of 2,000 points.

younger teammates into the right spots and putting them in position to shine.

“I came in kind of late in the beginning of the year and I wasn’t here in the summer. When I got here, Grayson was the one kind of talking to me about how things go around, how the workouts are and just telling me his experiences,” freshman Marvin Bagley III said. “It hurts that we couldn’t get it done for him.”

When asked before the year at ACC media day about what would constitute success for the season, Allen had a singular goal in mind— getting the team to play together.

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Marvin Bagley III had 10 boards in another double-double, and Mike Krzyzewski credited Grayson Allen with helping build chemistry with the big man this season.

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Jayhawks solve Duke’s zone, dominate the glass being active in the zone, and we got a lot of shots in the corner.”

To make matters worse, Duke’s zone was OMAHA, Neb.—After a quiet first half, not at full strength for much of the game. guard Malik Newman calmly drained a triple Freshman Wendell Carter Jr.—who had the first time he rose up for a shot after halftime. developed into a force in the center of the Blue And moments later, he hit another.

Devil defense with his ability to contest shots As the game continued, Newman struck fear at the rim—found himself saddled with foul into the Blue Devils and emerged as the star trouble. After Carter fouled out of the game Kansas needed to reach its first Final Four since in overtime on a 50-50 block-charge call, the 2012. By the end of the night, the guard had Jayhawks scored on their next two possessions reached 32 points for the game—26 of which and went on a 10-2 run. came in the second half and overtime.

“It’s the way the game is,” Krzyzewski said.

“He made a lot of tough shots, a lot of timely “Obviously, you have a kid that’s averaged shots for them,” Allen said. “A lot them—obviously a double-double the whole year and he just the game was close the whole game—but a lot of wasn’t able to play his game. I’m not blaming them it just felt like, right when we felt like we were the referees or anything. But it’s just disruptive. about to get a run, he hit one.”

You’d rather have him in the game for For all the positives head coach Mike 30-something minutes.”

Krzyzewski’s zone has produced on the One of the few regrets Krzyzewski and his defensive end for his coaching staff might have young team, Duke after the tight loss may be We weren’t hungry on the was playing with fire. not developing a suitable Although other teams glass at all, and by the time alternative if their zone had not had the kind of we wanted to be hungry, it was compromised. shooting nights needed Duke’s struggles in was too late. to expose the Blue Devils, man-to-man early in wendell carter jr. ACC play were wellthe Jayhawks featured FRESHMAN FORWARD a four-guard approach documented, and the that was tailor-made to team’s late-season surge beat a zone defense. was almost entirely attributed to the switch on Unlike the teams that have struggled to defense. But against the Jayhawks, the zone seemed make Duke pay in the midrange area, Kansas doomed from the start, and the Blue Devil defense worked through guard Lagerald Vick in the was certainly not the same with Javin DeLaurier or middle. After showing the Blue Devils his Marques Bolden in the middle. ability to hit soft floaters and throw up lobs for To make matters worse, freshman Marvin vicious slams by center Udoka Azubuike, Vick Bagley III found himself monitoring guards on had Duke off balance. the perimeter for much of the game. With the The Jayhawks capitalized with crisp ball big man away from the hoop, the lane was open movement that created open shots for the for Kansas’ athletic players to crash the boards team’s perimeter weapons. Despite going 13- for second-chance opportunities. Perhaps the of-36 from deep, Kansas created good looks most surprising stat from Sunday’s box score almost every time it avoided a turnover. was Kansas’ sizable 47-32 advantage in the “Coach just told us to keep attacking the rebounding category. zone,” Newman said. “They were gapping us so “The way we outrebounded Duke is strictly much that Coach just said if we were able to by committee and scrap,” Kansas head coach get paint touches, then the 3-point line would See ZONE on Page 9 open up. Lagerald did a great job in the middle,

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Malik Newman scored 32 points and took over in the extra session to eliminate Duke just short of the sport’s biggest stage.

M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 Mykhailiuk drained a triple to tie it, sending the contest to overtime when Allen’s attempt rolled off the rim.

“It came really close to going in and it didn’t,” Allen said. “I was trying to drive right, he cut me off, went back left, and their big stepped up to help. And I had to get a shot up over him and tried to bank it in, and it was right there.”

After trailing by three at half, Kansas (31-7) found an early offensive groove with 11 of the first 14 points out of the break to grab a 44-39 lead. That forced a quick timeout by Coach K just three and a half minutes into the period following a corner trey by Lagerald Vick that ignited the heavily pro-Jayhawk crowd.

But Duke responded to its largest deficit of the day, getting triples from Duval and then Bagley to pull within one before the Jayhawks called a timeout of their own just before the 13-minute mark of the half.

Back down five following another minirun by the Jayhawks, the Blue Devils pulled back to within a single point with 6:34 remaining. Then, Trent rattled home a long

“When I watched film, I’d seen how they triple, putting Duke back in front 64-62 for the first time since the start of the half to set play defense and how much they leave the whole lane open, so it’s pretty much just oneup the game’s final stretch.

Trent and Duval combined for 37 points on-one,” Duval said. “If anyone knows me, on 16-of-34 shooting from the field to lead that’s one of my strong suits—one-on-one and driving to the basket—so as soon as I the way for the Blue Devils.

It was a back-and-forth first 20 minutes, as saw they were playing defense that way, I took neither team could gain much of an advantage. advantage of it.”

Now, Kansas will turn its attention to a Duke and Kansas exchanged leads seven Final Four matchup with times in the opening stanza along with four Their big stepped up to help. No. 1 seed Villanova Saturday night in San ties, but tightness and And I had to get a shot up poor shooting told the over him and tried to bank it Antonio. The game will be the second contest story of the first half. of the doubleheader, The Blue Devils hit just in, and it was right there. three of their 15 longgrayson alllen beginning 40 minutes SENIOR GUARD after the conclusion range attempts and the of the 6:09 p.m. game Jayhawks committed 10 turnovers—they averaged just 11.6 a game between 11th-seeded Loyola Chicago and No. 3 seed Michigan. entering Sunday.

For Duke, an electric performance from The Blue Devils, on the other hand, will Duval set the tone early. The freshman return to Durham, falling short of what floor general led the way 13 first-half would’ve been Krzyzewski’s 13th Final points to outscore Bagley, Allen and Carter Four appearance. combined. And he picked up the slack, In the coming weeks, some Blue Devils will especially after Carter was sent to the bench likely make decisions to forgo their remaining with two fouls in the first 12 minutes and years of college eligibility. Allen will finish up his classes and graduate in May. And the rest another before intermission.

of the team will return next fall, ready to make a run at a national title with yet another topranked recruiting class.

For now, though, the next step is simple.

“I just want to get home and go to my bed,” Duval said.

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Trevon Duval led Duke with 20 points and also had six assists.

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Blue Devils fall to No. 1 Connecticut in Sweet 16

By Spencer Levy Staff Reporter

ALBANY, N.Y.—Connecticut may have been known for its offense in the first two games of the NCAA tournament. But it was the Huskies’ defense that pushed them past the Blue Devils into the Elite Eight and has made them the prohibitive national title favorites.

No. 5 seed Duke faced off against top-seeded Connecticut Saturday afternoon in the Sweet 16, and for the ninth DUKE 59 meeting in a row, UCONN 72 the Huskies defeated the Blue Devils 7259, though this was the first time in that streak Duke came within 15 points. Connecticut had four players register double figures in scoring and finished with 10 fast-break points and 12 points off turnovers.

“We’ve handled a lot, a lot of adversity, and we’ve had some excellent leadership and playing our best basketball in a lot of ways at this time of year, which has been great,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “And you’ve got to credit some good defense by Connecticut. I’m really proud of our team, and I certainly hope Connecticut does well.”

The Blue Devils (24-9) kept pace for the first quarter, but Connecticut put Duke away for good in the second quarter at the Times Union Center. The Blue Devils were led by sophomore Leaonna Odom’s team-high 22 points and eight rebounds.

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Lexie Brown and Rebecca Greenwell—combined for 16 points in the final game of their careers.

They were both face guarded on the offensive end for much of the game, which led to the Huskies’ defensive success.

Senior Erin Mathias added seven points and eight rebounds to try to battle with Connecticut’s frontcourt. Off the bench, graduate student Bego Faz Davalos made a basket and grabbed one rebound in her final game. Junior Faith Suggs started for the third straight game, though she was held scoreless.

The Blue Devils did not get out to the start they had hoped for. The Huskies (35-0) scored the first seven points of the contest, but a 3-pointer from Greenwell closed the deficit to four at 12-8 in favor of Connecticut.

“If we hold somebody to 14 points in a quarter, we think we did a pretty good job. Then we try to figure out, all right, what are we not doing on the offensive end that’s causing us some problems,” Husky head coach Geno Auriemma said. “If you’re not careful, you come down, and it’s one pass and a shot. Well, that’s great when they’re going in. But sometimes you have to— you have to wait a little bit and move the defense a little bit, so if the shot doesn’t go in, you have a chance to offensive rebound.”

Former Blue Devil and Connecticut transfer Azurá Stevens entered the game midway through the first quarter, and Mathias blocked her first shot. The 6-foot-6 forward converted her first bucket with less than two minutes remaining in the opening frame and finished with eight points and 12 rebounds.

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ACC Defensive Player of the Year Lexie Brown had seven steals in the final game of her career to extend Duke’s single-season record to 122.

The Huskies extended their six-point lead entering the second quarter to nine after Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie was assessed a technical foul 75 seconds into the second quarter.

Connecticut picked up its man-to-man defense in the period and forced the Blue Devils to use all 30 seconds of the shot clock to get off a contested look on multiple possessions. When Duke could not keep possession of the ball, the Huskies were well on their way to the other end of the floor.

“We missed a lot of easy ones, some layups

we missed, some wide-open shots we missed.

I think their defense was solid, but it wasn’t something that we couldn’t handle,” Brown said.

“I just think it was just us locking in offensively and knocking shots down, because I think we were getting enough stops, just needed to convert a little bit better.”

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ZONE FROM PAGE 8 Bill Self said. “Devonte’ gets six and Malik gets seven and Svi gets 10—that’s a lot of rebounds for our guards. That was the best we’ve done on the glass all year long and the most dominant we’ve been without question.”

The scrap Self references is the last area in which the Blue Devils came up just a tad short. Although the zone placed an onus on Duke’s guards to box out and end possessions, the trio of Allen and freshmen Gary Trent Jr. and Trevon Duval combined for just eight rebounds.

But against players like Graham and Mykhailiuk—both of whom experienced back-to-back losses in the Elite Eight

before Sunday—the Blue Devils needed to compete for a full 40 minutes and, as it turned out, have a little bit extra in the tank if necessary.

“We weren’t hungry on the glass at all, and by the time we wanted to be hungry, it was too late,” Wendell Carter Jr. said.

“We can’t really say we can move on from it, but we’ve just got to kind of try to forget about it.”

Krzyzewski proved to be a mastermind when his brief switch to the zone propelled Duke to a title in 2015. For much of the year, the scheme was exactly what fit this long, athletic Blue Devil team as well and showcased the Hall of Fame head coach’s ability to adapt when needed.

But when both teams brought their A-game and there was a need for a Plan B, Duke ran out of answers.

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9-0 run, which put the Blue Devils behind by 14 midway through the second quarter. Two more 3-pointers from Connecticut’s Kia Nurse and Katie Lou Samuelson and a buzzer-beater from Gabby Williams left Connecticut doubling up Duke in the first half, as it closed the half on an 8-0 run and outscored the Blue Devils 20-6 in the second quarter.

The Blue Devils did not quit after the break, as Greenwell drained a 3-pointer to bring the Blue Devils within 15 thanks to a 7-0 run. Duke cut the lead even further down to 13, but could not get over hump into single digits. The Huskies returned to their second-quarter form and scored the last seven points of the third period to regain a 20-point lead. “[Connecticut is] a team that plays with terrific runs, and you look at their rebounding, second shots, they got into FROM PAGE 6 transition, and that spells the game pretty quickly there. They’re Although it took a lot longer than many expected as Duke in terrific shape, they can play forever, and yeah, I thought it battled through an inconsistent ACC campaign, the Blue was problematic for sure,” McCallie said. “We did settle down. I Devils certainly grew as a group and reached the level of thought we did play, which was great. But that was for a quarter, togetherness typically seen with Duke’s best teams. and it needs to continue.”

“He did a great job of interacting with this young The two teams traded triples in the opening minute of the group and helped them grow,” Duke head coach Mike final quarter, and Mathias converted an and-one to bring her team to within 16. Odom continued attacking and knocking Krzyzewski said. “I especially thought the relationship down short jumpers in the paint to make the score respectable, that he has with Marvin was the key for us getting as good though the Blue Devils never threatened to put themselves in a as we were. You’re a shot away, a roll away, from being position to win. in the Final Four, and so much of it has to do with their Although it came in a loss, the Blue Devils only turned relationship and his leadership.” over the ball 10 times, which helped them stay close and could Despite the team reaching Allen’s goal of playing together, the have given them a chance to win if a few more shots had fallen.

Blue Devils hold themselves to a championship standard, and there will be no Final Four banner coming to Durham.

Connecticut gave the ball away on 12 occasions. Brown—the Allen’s most memorable moments will be his first ones ACC’s Defensive Player of the Year—had seven steals, extending for many, with the scrappy guard diving for a loose ball against Duke’s single-season record to 122 to finish the year.

Wisconsin. His career will always include a national championship.

“It was something we’ve been talking about all week, not But there’s not always a happy end to the story. turning the ball over, fueling their transition offense,” Brown said.

For the time being, though, the senior is left reflecting on “We had two in the second half total, so that’s awesome for us, a career that felt like it lasted an eternity until it was slammed something that I wish we could have built on for future games, but shut in a matter of minutes.

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ast night, Duke men’s basketball faced a crushing defeat in overtime to the University of Kansas. The Jayhawks advance to the Final Four of a March Madness tournament featuring a historic upset by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Loyola University Chicago as the tournament’s Cinderella team. With over ten million viewers and close to 100 million live video streams, the NCAA’s March Madness is one of nation’s most watched sporting events. Even though the Blue Devils’ season has come to an end, the fight for a national championship continues next week in San Antonio.

The battlefield of the tournament extends far beyond the court and March Madness. Collegiate athletics has long had to contend with the tensions existing between the two demanding, and often opposing, hyphenated roles of student-athletes, and the burden of this debate has rightfully fallen upon its governing body, the NCAA. The NCAA consists of over 1,200 institutions and nearly half a million studentathletes who elect to follow its guidelines and structures.

Since its founding in 1906, the NCAA has engaged with issues of gender equity, unregulated recruiting and the “ever-growing commercialization of college sports—while...attempting to uphold the traditional values of amateurism and academic integrity.” Today,

“The ‘think of of your sister/mother/daughter/cousin’ narrative is dangerous because it implies that women are only important in relation to men, rather than women are individual human beings who thus have full rights and deserve respect..”

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we shine a spotlight on how the NCAA and its member institutions have unabashedly profited from this commercialization of collegiate athletics, especially basketball, at the expense of student-athletes.

In 2010, the NCAA and CBS/Turner signed a deal for rights to March Madness worth nearly 10 billion dollars over a 14-year period. Beyond the profit from television rights, sources indicate over one billion dollars are made in advertising alone. A non-profit governing body, the NCAA claims that 90 percent of its revenue is invested

Editorial Board into college athletics and supposedly, to college athletes themselves; however, the lawyered statements of the organization are extremely misleading. Even if the NCAA provides large sums of money to schools, the schools squander the money on multi-million-dollar coaching contracts, extravagant athletic buildings and search firms to hire their prestigious and expensive coaches. Some funds directed to athletes like the student assistance fund are often misused, if not forgotten. The punchline: despite the billions of dollars made in college sports, the athletes fail to benefit from the money they generate through their labor.

Many question the NCAA’s current structure, arguing that in trying to preserve the amateurism of student-athletes, it instead fails them. This dissatisfaction from college sports’ most prolific figures—such as Duke’s own Coach Krzyzewski—has led to heated debates about paying college athletes, especially in revenue-generating sports. Those against this solution argue that it would be economically disadvantageous as well as disastrous for the student aspect of a student-athlete’s dual role. However, the list of proponents continues to grow, including acclaimed sports journalists, academics, analysts and former athletes. Specifically, for college basketball, in this era of one-and-dones, it has become imperative to address whether the NCAA’s policies reflects a commitment to education or an unnecessary career setback for athletes.

At a university where some tent for weeks on end to earn tickets for college basketball’s biggest rivalry, we should question whether the sporting events that bind us together exploit some of our very own classmates.

The time for NCAA reform is here, and if we cannot champion the change, we should at least engage with college sports’ difficult truths. Our school spirit should demand fair treatment for our classmates, both on and off the court.

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aybe it was the fact that Las Vegas is my hometown. Or The other day, my professor used the word “island.” I can’t stop thinking about it.

Let me take you back to 1:42 p.m. on a slightly overcast Tuesday. Last week. The Physics building.

To no one’s surprise, I am once more quietly zoning

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out in my developmental psychology class. A very qualified man is attempting to teach me about language development in children. My mind is responding to this generous act with aimless poetry.

The professor’s multisyllabic words seem like riverbed stones seen through clear, flowing water: each one distinct, but also part of a rounded, pebbly whole. The stones blur into each other through the water’s distortion. Grey and black and reddish. You can never look at just one river stone. You can never throw just one river stone. You can never just…Wait, why am I thinking of river stones again? Shouldn’t I be, like, taking notes or something?

“Shh.” My idiot mind responds. “Life is long and this is chair is comfortable. Keep thinking of river stones.”

My fold-out lecture hall seat supports me. My eyes see a PowerPoint appropriately adorned with 14-point Helvetica and neatly labeled graphs. My mind sees river stones. My head leans back. My mouth slides slightly ajar. I hear flowing water. I am comfortably adrift.

Then, he says it. My professor uses the word “island.” Maybe it’s the coffee. Maybe I have an affinity for islands. Maybe there wasn’t any reason for it at all. The result is the same. I’m pulled bodily out of my reverie and into the sharp realm of wakefulness. The word island shines out from its peers like sparkling quartz amongst dull waterblurred river stones. I don’t remember the context in which the word was used. I do remember the things it made me think of. Connotations flew out from the word like a multistage firework. Here are my impressions of the word island.

Islands are part of who I am. My friend owns a baseball hat that has written across its front in cursive “you deserve an island.” I liked it so much that I borrowed it from her. For at least a month, in quite a literal sense, I wore the word “island.” I wore it on my head, no less, like a crown. If our clothing becomes in some small part who we are, then I had chosen, in a limited sense, to include the word island in who I was.

Islands are associated with the rich. There’s a whole HGTV show about people shopping for their ideal island. Deciding that you wanted to own an island always seemed profoundly entitled to me. You look at a part of the world and decide you want it to be yours. Additionally, you declare that your part of the world, your bit of the land, must be separated from everyone else’s by ocean. We can’t have the masses’ plebeian soil touch our own sanctified turf, now can we?

Islands are associated with the profoundly poor. It’s practically its own genre: the castaway, shipwrecked, must survive using only their wits and what they can scavenge from nature. Robinson Crusoe, Lost. To be on an island is to be separated from the comfort, the trappings of civilization. To be on an island is to be the opposite of entitled. You have surrendered yourself to the world.

Islands are associated with humankind’s tranquility. You can picture the scene: it’s embedded in our collective consciousness. Two lawn chairs sit nestled into pure white sand. A palm tree gently sways. The sky roars with color: red orange, milky pink. The soothing sound of the surf mingles with the far-off laughter of children, with the clinking of ice in a drink with an umbrella, with the whisper of the breeze through the yellowed pages of a wellthumbed paperback. Relaxation manifest.

Islands are associated with nature’s rage.

Hurricanes, typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes. The island is especially prone to natural disaster. Alone, isolated among the waves, every brutal whim of mother nature is felt more intensely. Islands are born out of eruptions of angry red molten stone.

Islands die in the tearing of ruthless blue water over painful millennia. Islands are elemental. Raw. All of these things and more are implied each time we use the word island. All these connotations, all these ideas, are summoned by the simple utterance of a word. When my professor said island so casually, it felt like being offhandedly given a glass of water, then taking a sip to discover that the glass was a firehose all along. Every word we use is far, far more that the sans-serif definition that a quick Google search will offer. Every word is packed to the brim with meaning. Often those meanings are shared.

Often we each have different meanings. Often the two mingle.

Whatever the case, using words is profoundly not a trivial act. When we speak or write or sing, we aren’t just making vacuous noise. We are slinging around firehoses that yield not water, but instead pure, raw thought.

We should aim well.

Mihir Bellamkonda is a Trinity first-year.

His column, “small questions,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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How Asian will my children be?

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’m 22 years old, and I’m coming to realize that this Taylor Swift year comes with a bit of an ever-looming reality that, especially as a woman, I should start thinking about whether or not I want to start structuring my future around the expectation that I will start my own family. And in this planning stage, I’m starting to realize that at some point, if I do decide to have children, I’m going to have to raise them. Which sounds ridiculous because that’s what parents are supposed to do. Parent. Guide. Provide.

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Except now when I think about what my future children, I start to worry a little. The past few years of my life have been a constant internal struggle about my own identity.

The continuous wavering of my confidence in my identity as an Asian female is an indication of how difficult the issue of navigating an Asian-American can be for someone who is of a mature age.

The problem is that many times times, I don’t even feel Asian.

As I’ve written previously, I find myself in a grey area with my hyphenated identity. I’m Asian-American. I’m neither full Asian, nor full American. This is a struggle that I deal with personally and internally.

But when it is time for me to teach my children, what will I lean to?

Of course, my answer must include a number of factors— most importantly, the background of this mysterious future partner. If I ultimately decide to have children and my partner happens to not be Chinese, or even Asian, how Chinese will my children be? Should I attempt to teach them

Mandarin? Do I want them to check off the “Asian/Pacific Islander” box on official forms?

What about if my partner is also Asian, but not ethnically Chinese? At face value, my children would clearly look Asian. However, to assume that my family’s experiences and background are perfectly aligned with, say, those of a Japanese family, would be ill-informed in that I would be failing to recognize differences in nuanced traditions and cultures developed over each of our countries’ steeped histories. How will I navigate explaining these details to a child?

And even if I happen to raise a family with another American-Born-Chinese (ABC), there are still so many questions to grapple with. Do I give them Chinese names?

Do I enroll them in Chinese school? Do I tell them to treat their elders with that extra degree of reverence? Do I expect them to root for China during the Olympics at all?

Regardless of other factors, my children are going to be biologically Asian. When my children inherit a family background, genes and appearances of a Chinese individual.

But it is up to me, their mother, to decide how much of the culture I wish to instill in them—and at this point in time, I wouldn’t know how to begin. I currently live in so much personal confusion that I wouldn’t know how to guide another person through this world as an Asian-American. I myself don’t feel like I am a completely adequate bearer of the title of “Asian.”

While I contemplate this hypothetical, I also have to recognize that this concern of mine is playing out in the lives of others every day. I’m lucky to have had real, eyeopening conversations with some of my half-Asian and other mixed-raced friends. This concept of embodying racial intersectionality is something that many of them think about just as often as I think about my Asian-American-ness. As American continue to intermingle beyond racial boundaries, these issues become more and more confusing while simultaneously becoming more and more ubiquitous. I greatly admire the mixed-race men and women of this generation,

who have acted as pioneers in navigating this space.

Labeling oneself as an Asian-American is meant to signify the existence not only between two spaces, but also between two generations. I am starting to develop deep pride in being Asian, and I almost fear that Asian-ness in my family will continue to splinter away with each generational division.

But I also recognize that I cannot expect every person carrying any fraction of my DNA who comes after me to 100 percent love being Asian. After all, that is an expectation to which I don’t even hold myself.

I recognize how this may be an overinflation of an issue that isn’t necessarily mine to begin with. It will be up to my children to ultimately determine how much they want to define themselves by their Asian identity.

And honestly, I don’t even root for China during the Olympics. I pretty much always root America, because I still see myself as American first and foremost. By the nature of living in the states, I imagine my children will be the same way. But I want to try and help my future children understand and feel comfortable with their Asian identities in whatever way I can, particularly knowing how much being ethnically Chinese occupies my own consciousness as I move throughout this world.

By having an Asian mother, my children inevitably will have to face stereotypes, expectations—and perhaps even hate—from the outside world, as well as from within themselves. Right now, I believe this reality to be true. Perhaps by the time they are grown, the perceptions they face will be different. Regardless, I am committed to equipping them with the tools to handle their identity the best that they can.

Then again, I am but 22 years old. The best thing I can probably do for my future children is to become confident and comfortable in my own, gloriously Asian skin first.

Amy Wang is a Trinity senior. Her column typically runs on alternate Mondays.

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ntegrity Week (I-Week) is just around the corner, and on the 25th anniversary of Honor at Duke, what does living honorably mean for Duke students? 21stcentury expectations of students seem simple: don’t cheat, don’t steal, live honorably. In my History of Ancient Philosophy class with Professor Michael Ferejohn, we learned that 2,500 years ago, the standards were a tad more complicated. During the time of Socrates, the Greeks’ conception of areté (αρετή), or what we now call “virtue,” was really a set of

matters, each of the five were integral.

Fast forward two-and-a-half millennia.

Discussions surrounding honor and integrity rarely extend into the abstract question by which Socrates was fascinated: how do we live well? On top of that, what does “living well” even mean?

This year, with Honor Council’s new program of a different theme dominating each month, we are exposed to the intersectionality of honor with all fields, ranging from law and finance to athletics and sexual misconduct.

But we can’t stop there. During the Young Trustee endorsement period, Amy Kramer responded to a question about the purpose of Honor Council with the simple statement that we are here “to define the abstract.” For Amy, me, and hopefully the entire student body, honor should be synonymous with living well. We want to leave this storied guidelines for how people should live. Though institution proud of who we’ve become and it is commonplace to use the English word the legacy we’ve left behind. At our weekly “virtue” as a simple translation, areté can be Council meetings, we often talk about why more accurately thought of as excellence in it is so hard to get people to come to Honor general. In order to live excellently and be an Council events. Yes, Duke students are busy, excellent person, one had to possess each of but the more significant contributor to their the excellences: justice, piety, temperance, absence is that everyone already believes courage, and wisdom. No single excellence they are honorable, so why waste time to took precedence over the others, but in have someone else tell them? The answer order to live well and be an expert in ethical is this: without examining our lives, we are

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in danger of doing the right things for the wrong reasons.

Duke, unlike most universities, defines integrity using a “community standard” as opposed to an “honor code.” This distinction is important because the word “code” implies a rigid set or rules or regulations, while a “standard” refers to norms that suggest a certain level of quality. By calling our version of the honor code a “standard,” we are making a concerted effort to demonstrate that these are guidelines for how everyone should be treated and how everyone should act, much like the golden rule.

Though the Duke Community Standard does not ask Duke students to control their emotions, go to war for their country, or respect those who are higher than them in the grand scheme of things, the ancient Greeks’ belief in excellence is something we should apply to how we think about honor today. When we hear the words “Duke Community Standard,” or “honor,” our kneejerk translation is “don’t cheat.” We know the first line of the Standard by heart at the expense of the two critical lines, which ask students to “conduct themselves honorably in all endeavors,” and to “act when the Standard is compromised.”

Without thinking about honor as a way

for us to live excellently, we can never break out of the restrictive, damaging belief that honor is just about not cheating on a test. It is not something that disappears the second we close a Blue Book. Honor is about how we conduct ourselves in our interactions with fellow students and professors, on our Orgo midterm, and in our K-ville experience.

In 1993, Duke’s first Honor Code was instituted. The inaugural set of guidelines has undergone many transformations before reaching its final form today. We as the Honor Council continue to try to expand our definition of honor, with upcoming I-Week events such as the Censored Women’s Film Festival, a discussion with mayor of Durham Steve Schewel, and a panel with past Honor Council chairs, moderated by former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury, Sarah Raskin. As we plunge headfirst into Integrity Week (March 23-29), think about whether you are examining your life, and more importantly, whether you are proud of the actions you took to achieve what you have achieved. And if you’re really ambitious, see if you fulfill Socrates’ criteria.

This column was written by Megan Zhao (T’21).

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