Duke falls at home to Stephen F. Austin on buzzer-beating layup

https://trendyup2date.blogspot.com/2019/11/duke-falls-at-home-to-stephen-f-austin.htmlFor the first time since January 5, 1983, Duke's basketball team lost a home game to an unranked non-Power Conference foe. Stephen F. Austin's Nathan Bain converted a layup at the overtime buzzer to stun No. 1 Duke 85-83 Tuesday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

College basketball is madness this season.

Duke became the third No. 1 team to lose this season, seeing its 150-game non conference home winning streak snapped by Stephen F. Austin senior forward Nathan Bain's coast-to-coast layup at the overtime buzzer. The Blue Devils entered the game as 27.5-point favorites, making the Lumberjacks' win the biggest Division I upset of the past 15 seasons.

Duke took a 15-point first-half lead, but SFA which had just lost to Rutgers and finished below 500 last season came all the way back in the second half to take the lead in the final minutes. The game went into OT when Duke's Cassius Stanley missed a contested midrange jumper at the buzzer.

Tre Jones penetrated and attempted a bounce pass to Matthew Hurt. Hurt couldn't handle it and SFA's Gavin Kensmil came out with the loose ball. He passed it to Bain at his own foul line, and Bain went the length of the court to finish the winning layup at the buzzer.

With Michigan State also losing this week, we're likely to see a new No. 1 next week the fourth different No. 1 already this season. Louisville was No. 2 in this week's AP poll, and the Cardinals face Western Kentucky on Friday.

While it's an amazing win for Kyle Keller and the Stephen F. Austin program, it does highlight some of the issues with Duke this season. Down the stretch of the game, the Blue Devils simply couldn't get good shots. If Jones wasn't beating his man off the dribble, the lack of consistent perimeter shooters enabled the Lumberjacks to collapse and help off their men to keep Jones out of the paint or from getting the ball to Vernon Carey Jr. inside. At the other end, Duke gave up 64  points in the paint.

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