Duke escapes Virginia

#6 Duke 61, #17 Virginia 58I don't mean to pick on Seth Davis on my twitter account so often. He's not really any worse than most of the other television analysts. Like most of them, he doesn't understand tempo-free stats. As I like to say, if you tell your team to hold the ball for an extra ten seconds on every offensive possession then you're going to give up fewer points, but it doesn't mean your defense got better. Nobody argues that Pomeroy stats or any of the other tempo-free stats are the gospel, or that the team rated the #1 Pomeroy offense or defense is definitely the best offense/defense in the nation, but it's just sad how wrong some of the television analysts are. Seth Davis started out last week complaining about Duke's offense. When somebody on twitter pointed out to him that they were the #4 rated offense in Pomeroy, Davis responded: "You realize how little that means? Watch. Them. Play." Yeah, Seth Davis, I guess I have to watch ...