After a long hiatus, The Blue Zone is bringing back "This Week in Duke Tweets" with five of the week's most notable Tweets about Duke basketball.
1) The Blue Devils held a lead as large as 22 points in the second half against St. Johns, but within fewer than eight minutes saw it dwindle to just seven. Although Duke pulled out an 83-76 victory, the team allowed 47 of those points in a defensively challenged second-half showing. During that second half, noted college basketball analyst and statistician Ken Pomeroy tweeted about how the Blue Devil defense continues to slide within his rankings:
2) Against Maryland last week, Mason Plumlee dominated with 23 points and 12 rebounds on 9-of-13 shooting from the field, leading the Blue Devils to a 74-61 victory on the road. Former Duke guard and current hoops analys Jay Williams praised Plumlee for his Glenn Robinson-like domination against the Terrapins in the below Tweet. In the team's following game against the Red Storm, Plumlee validated Williams' praise with a similar performance, notching 15 points and 17 boards on 5-of-8 from the floor.
3) The Blue Devil basketball world has been abuzz recently ever since Chronicle sports editor Chris Cusack wrote an expose on how the team has needed to sell additional tickets due to poor student attendance in Cameron Indoor Stadium's student section. People have spent the past week trying to decipher how this is possible, with some asking if the Crazies have lost some of their craze. It's still important to remember, however, that Cameron will always be hallowed grounds, even if the team is experiencing a current dip in attendance. This first Tweet, from Duke alumnus Seth Davis, a college basketball analyst for Sports Illustrated and CBS Sports, links to this picture from the author admiring the confines of Cameron this past Tuesday.
4) The second Tweet about Cameron is not about the stadium - at least directly. But, one can guess as to the importance of the stadium to former Duke great Bobby Hurley, who led the team to back-to-back national championships in 1991 and 1992. The name of his daughter, who celebrated her Sweet 16 last week? You guessed it.
5) Finally, the final spot goes to Austin Rivers who eclipsed a Twitter milestone within the last week. Congratulations to the Duke guard, who earned his 100,000th follower last week. He has now climbed over 103,000 since then.
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