johnnydoom Frankly, it was an upset, of sorts. They committee ranks the one seeds in order. Auburn was the overall number one and Duke was the overall number two.
So with semifinals produced upsets, one a bit more absurd than the other. Still unclear how you lose a game when you are ahead by six points and have the ball and there are only 37 seconds left to play. Every single thing that could go right for Houston and wrong for Duke happened in that short period of time. If they were to replay that game from that point 100 times, Houston would win maybe 2 or 3 of those games. Duke's chances of victory were 97% by computer calculation.
One of the craziest last two minutes of college basketball I have ever seen.
I really think Duke's team was superior, and that if this were a 7-game series, Duke would win it four games to two. But in the NCAA Tournament, it's one game, and crazy things can happen.