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A new kind of Blue: yes, Duke is in a familiar spot near the top of the polls. But this season's Blue Devils are in the unusual position of having to do more with less.(College Basketball)(Mike Krzyzewski)

The Sporting News

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Mike Krzyzewski is talking his way toward the end of a fairly ordinary postgame press conference, ordinary save for the fact that this one is after a Duke victory and those have been in shorter supply the past month. He is saying the typical stuff in his atypical manner, revealing only what he wishes to reveal, but is so uncommonly articulate that you hardly notice.

He speaks of J.J. Redick, his star junior shooting guard, who has had himself a night: 38 points, a career best. I didn't think he forced anything tonight. I thought he played with the most poise all year. Fine praise, well-deserved, but fairly routine. Something is different, though. This is not the ...

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