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Duke Beats St. John's in Sweet 16 - Postgame Reaction | March Madness 2026 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: I sold from the top. It's Bam bam Cam Boozer
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  Speaker 1: playing some big boy ball. You know what he's at, Chipwaff, chipwaf,
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  Speaker 1: the old block Pops, Carlos Boozer loving it right now
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  Speaker 1: and Duke.
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  Speaker 2: Is moving on.
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  Speaker 1: They do it again. We have our first team of
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  Speaker 1: the night and fifth overall into this year's Elite Eight.
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  Speaker 1: For the thurs straight year, the Duke Blue Devils are
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  Speaker 1: the are the one of the last eight teams still
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  Speaker 1: dancing Hello and welcome to Capitol One Tournament Central On.
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  Speaker 2: They Burlers and Clark Kellog, Kenny.
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  Speaker 1: Smith and Charles Barkley, Charles Duke.
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  Speaker 2: They finished a strong you know what, they were the
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  Speaker 2: better team. Saint John's played with great energy, effort. They
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  Speaker 2: made a bunch of shots, but the best team won
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  Speaker 2: and the end. But that was just a really well
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  Speaker 2: played basketball game. Boozer came through down the stretch. But man,
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  Speaker 2: that Patino team and they're so well coached they play.
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  Speaker 2: If you get your team to play hard, anything can happen.
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  Speaker 2: Because they played with great energy and effort. But the
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  Speaker 2: best team won that game.
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  Speaker 3: Kenny, Well, you know one thing about if you look
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  Speaker 3: at the program, that's what they're doing right now in Durham.
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  Speaker 3: It's been unbelievable. But I just want to kind of
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  Speaker 3: go backwards and talk about the Booza kids because I've
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  Speaker 3: been watching them play basketball on AU circuits since probably
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  Speaker 3: like fifth grade. I cannot remember anything that they haven't
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  Speaker 3: won every tournament that I have ever seen. And it's
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  Speaker 3: not just Cameron because Cayden is. These guys have won
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  Speaker 3: so much basketball from the summer times where you to
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  Speaker 3: the high school state championships, it's an incredible feat and
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  Speaker 3: then then come into college basketball, where yes, they have
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  Speaker 3: some advantages and some skilled advantages, but they're not the
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  Speaker 3: same as glaring as let's say Cooper Flags when you
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  Speaker 3: go mad, he just jumps out the gym more than
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  Speaker 3: everyone else. Well, he just does certain these guys, but
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  Speaker 3: they have a winning pet greet and the play winning plays.
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  Speaker 3: There is a difference between making a great basketball play
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  Speaker 3: and making a great winning play, and those two guys
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  Speaker 3: have made great winning plays. And obviously with the addition
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  Speaker 3: coming back of the point guard, yeah, cal with Foster
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  Speaker 3: coming back was a real catalyst. But those two guys
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  Speaker 3: have won a lot. I would I'm really gonna start
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  Speaker 3: looking up how many games they've lost in the last
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  Speaker 3: five years. I'd be short, and I mean a short exercise.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be a short exercise.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know only I don't even think I only
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  Speaker 3: have to use one hand. I bet I might not
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  Speaker 3: only have to use one hand.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's get to the highlights and show with this.
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  Speaker 2: Don't forget about Isaiah Evans.
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  Speaker 4: He was the start of gas. Yeah, yes he was fantastic,
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  Speaker 4: But this was a terrific college basketball game. The Johnny's
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  Speaker 4: far hard. Here's a big play by Brice Hopkins. He
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  Speaker 4: was six or seven mate and scored fifteen points. Saint
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  Speaker 4: John's plus two. But Isai Evans. Here's your guy, Chuck,
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  Speaker 4: he was all fig three there challenge shot, that's just
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  Speaker 4: a heck of a shot. He had twenty five on
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  Speaker 4: the game and then Boozer winning. They played through him
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  Speaker 4: at the middle, in the middle of the floor most
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  Speaker 4: of the time. Late then Darning had a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of space to come a second to get it app
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  Speaker 4: left them a little long to get it off, and
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  Speaker 4: Duke prevails and they've done a great job coming from
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  Speaker 4: behind and double digit deficit games, and here you see
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  Speaker 4: the numbers that really kind of made the difference in
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  Speaker 4: my mind, plus thirteen on the glass, plus nine second
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  Speaker 4: chance points and then you see the points in the bank.
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  Speaker 4: We talked about it at a half times, dying in eating,
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  Speaker 4: and that also led to a pretty good advantage at
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  Speaker 4: the free throw line, and Saint John's cooled a bit
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  Speaker 4: from the three point. I want to talk about Isaiah
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  Speaker 4: Evans because he was the start of the game for
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  Speaker 4: two US. But Caleb Foster, we talked about it, then
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  Speaker 4: scored the first half, scored all elevens points in the
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  Speaker 4: second half. That was that's what they needed, and then
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  Speaker 4: Boozer closed it. But Isaiah Evans and Caleb Foster, they
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  Speaker 4: were the reason Duke won that game. I agreed