Let me preface the forthcoming article by saying this before all the Duke haters come for me: Duke did not deserve to win the game on Sunday. They blew it. Plain and simple. The late collapse was inexplicable and unacceptable, and Jon Scheyer has nobody to blame but himself for it.
At the same time, Dan Hurley 100% deserved a technical foul for getting all up in Roger Ayers’ face in the aftermath of Braylon Mullins’ dagger three-pointer. Hurley is a petulant child at all times, and his over-the-top reactions are nothing new, but he gets away with way too much on the bench.
Regardless of the game situation, Hurley should have been assessed at least a technical foul, if not two and an ejection for making contact with an official in the manner that he did. His explanation of it in the aftermath is, quite frankly, BS…