Let’s Go Belmont Clap Clap Clap-Clap-Clap

By Spencer Hall
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Hey, look a Duke fan. The only Duke fan, I can see, who has the cojones not only to wear a Duke shirt, but to demonstrably root like mad for Duke in front of other people in public in a sportsbook that, in the second half, turned into a rabidly partisan pro-Belmont crowd.
LET’S GO BEL-MONT!
CLAP-CLAP CLAP-CLAP-CLAP
LET’S GO BEL-MONT!
CLAP-CLAP CLAP-CLAP-CLAP
And what did Belmont do to Duke that everyone who has watched the Blue Devils play more than three times hasn’t suspected all along: that they suffer from a crippling dependence on the three-ball, that they’re soft as fresh muffins up the middle and that they remain a very, very beatable team going into the second game of the tourney.
The gun doesn’t lie: If we played covers by our shooting range picks for the first round, we actually come out of it doing all right so far, with Winthrop’s horrendous second half stroke against Washington State being the glaring and obvious exception to the rule.
Oh, and if K-State wasn’t obviously underseeded in your mind at the beginning of the tourney, they made a good case for it with their crippling and decisive run in the second half against USC in their defeat of the Trojans. At one point when Michael Beasley fought for possession under the basket with three people surrounding him and still drew the foul, a USC fan behind us let out a loud but pardonable four-letter word we can’t print here. (Hint: it rhymes with duck!)
Given the effort and pure muscle K-State showed against them, it was probably the only logical reaction given the circumstances.
Spencer is covering the manic gamblefest out in Vegas. Follow his work here. ↵