NCAA Bracket 2011: No. 1 Duke Vs. No. 8 Michigan
Do you like your marquee matchups in the 2011 NCAA Tournament Bracket with a little bit of off-court spice? Well, Duke vs. Michigan gives Jim Nantz (who will call the game with Clark Kellogg) a chance to touch on the firestorm started by Jalen Rose’s comments on 18-year-old Jalen Rose’s views of Duke’s recruiting as a member of Michigan’s Fab Five in the early 1990s, so that’s probably a storyline juicy enough for all but the hungriest sports story connoisseurs. The Duke vs. Michigan game almost seems like an undercard on the 2011 NCAA Tournament schedule, but it tips off from Charlotte at 2:45 p.m. Eastern on Sunday.
Duke’s 42-point trouncing of Hampton in the Second Round was the largest win of the 2011 NCAA Tournament so far. And the Blue Devils did it with balance: eight players had six or more points, and four scored in double figures. Couple that distribution of scoring — keyed by ball movement that led to 17 assists — with suffocating defense that held Hampton to 34.5% from the field, and Duke looked like a No. 1 seed and Houston-bound squad in the Second Round.
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