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The No. 12 ranked Arizona Wildcats (2-0) went into Cameron Indoor Stadium on Friday night and handed No. 2 Duke (1-1) their first loss of the season with a 78-73 victory.
All five of Arizona's starters hit double digits in points, with senior forward Keshad Johnson leading the team with 14. His biggest bucket came with under a minute left and the Wildcats trailing by two. He drew a foul, made a close-range shot and hit the free throw, which gave them the lead for good.
Duke didn't let up and kept it close, even cutting the Arizona lead to 74-73 with five seconds to play. But a last-ditch effort by the Blue Devils wasn't enough and KJ Lewis emphatically slammed the door shut in the closing seconds.
Caleb Love, who previously beat the Blue Devils twice while at the University of North Carolina, finished with 11 points, with three of them coming on a bank-shot 3-pointer to end the first half.
Love also made four of the Wildcats' six key free throws in the final 20 seconds of the game. After the game, he was quite happy to have beaten Duke yet again, all in front of former Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski.
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When it was over, Arizona's players celebrated near midcourt, with Love waving goodbye to the irate Crazies and offering some testy words as big man Oumar Ballo extended his arms to blow them kisses.
The loss was also head coach Jon Scheyer's first at home since taking over the Duke program in 2022. The Blue Devils went 16-0 at Cameron Indoor Stadium last season and finished 27-9 overall.
For Arizona, it was its first road win over a top-two opponent since 2001 when it went to Stanford and upset the Cardinal.
Love's Carolina past wasn't far from his mind, telling reporters postgame "I'm a Tar Heel for life."
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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