GREENVILLE, S.C. For most of Thursday, Duke looked nothing like the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. Not with 16th-seeded Siena challenging the Blue Devils at every turn, determined to pull off the rarest of March Madness upsets.
And Duke barely avoided exactly that.
The Blue Devils had to rally from 13 points down and going ahead for good in the final 5 minutes to beat Siena 71-65, a first-round game that will stand out both for how Duke looked uncharacteristically tight and shaky compared to the confidence of the upstart Saints.
