Duke’s coronation was all late in the second half against Houston in the men’s finals of 2025. The blue demons advanced 14 points with slightly more than eight minutes, putting the program on the threshold of the national championship game. The Duke’s overwhelming talent feature was: Cooper Flagg was up to the level of the noise between generations with great performance, and expelled Kon Knuepet outside shots to show the reason for choosing a lottery, and ignored Khaman Maluach to everyone on the field to show the reason being one as well. The last of the late Duke team was very good in failure.
Just as the first accounts of the Duke Championship against the Duke against Florida National began to form it, Kelvin Sampson and Houston Kojers entered an increase. Houston was not sagging himself, the number 1 legitimate and the owners of the longest active victory chain in the country. The chopped relied on their defense as they did several times in the past, and somehow presented a return to ages to end the Duke season and pushed them to the national title game.
Houston Duke, 70-67, was shocked at one of the last four ends of history. Carry the rocks for one goal around the clock 10:30 of the organization. Houston team has no expected The American Professional League draft Just choose to steal the appearance of a national tournament from the Duke list full of them.
This was Masterclass Sampson, culminating in a legendary profession playing in the largest stage in this sport. Sampson and Kghar stole this game with durability, discipline, intelligence, and unbreakable torque to continue implementation even when the game looked lost. On Monday night, Houston Florida will face an attempt to win the first national championship in the history of the program.
Sampson and his team deserved all the credit, but they do not make mistakes: this was a collapse by Duke, and it is not forgotten any time soon. John Shayer made such a wonderful work that leads the list of blue demons loaded to this point, but we regret leaving this opportunity to slip through his hands. Sampson was better.
Here is how Houston stole the victory from Duke, and the blue demons were forced into a stifling function to remember them.
Houston’s defense was incredible in the past ten minutes
Duke was in seven minutes the delayed delay in the second half when Flagg dug an index of three points lifting his nine points with the left 3:03. This was the first field goal that Houston surrendered since the Flagg bucket in the 10:31 sign in the second half, and the last field goal would be to get tonight.
Houston tracked five with 1:14. He left when the big man Joseph Totler was called for an unintentionally touching the ball, as Duke was wandering. Knuepet hit a free throw, and Duke got the ball. Houston was forced to stop, and Emmanuel Sharp smiled a triple indication on the other side. Suddenly, it was one possession game.
Houston then put a full printing press on Duke, where she took the ball in the ball under her basket. Duke could not get it clean even after a period. Houston stole the ball, missed three index, but Tugler was there to expel the dunk advice. Duke was offered to one.
Cooper Flagg was called to a controversial error
Tyrest Proctor went to the wrong line for Duke to get one with his team. Protect was absent from the first free throw, and Flagg was called for a recovery error. This should have been a mistake?
Houston, J’wan Roberts, sent his big leg in the sixth year, heart and Sol, to a hateful line. Although he was 62 percent free shooter, Roberts landed both to put Houston at the forefront.
Flagg had another opportunity to put Duke on the top, but it came short in a shot with Roberts.
Houston had no work to win this game
Houston is a great team, but Duke’s talent feature was clear from the moment when the game was extinguished. Duke was controlling most of the night. Houston installed the defensive intensity, its freestyle, and got enough rest periods to ignore the victory in one way or another.
The ugir was 9-0 in the last 33 seconds.
Duke guards let them down. The last 10 minutes of that game. Flagg also had many shots that did not fall in the second half. How Maluach ended the match without a recovery as the choice of lottery 7’2 was directed against the front line, which is not named in Houston, which is 6’8?
This is a historical return for Hustin in every way.
Houston was the bottom of 14 with 8:17 left in the second half.
This is the biggest return in the second half in the fourth final since Liwala Chicago returned from the bottom of 15 in 1963. pic.twitter.com/94lhxq5eia
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Scheyer and Duke will be haunted by leaving this one escapes. They were getting only one chance with Flagg, and somehow turned up the noise throughout this season and this tournament. It seemed that the blue demons were the best team in this field, but they melted when it was important. This hurts everything as much as Duke lost in the eighth elite with Zion Williamson to Michigan.
Kelvin Sampson did it. It is still difficult to believe that Houston will go to the national championship game.
