LSU 62, Duke 54. Told you to watch out for the Big Baby.

A couple more observations from the couch as the second half wore on (the first half was spent mostly on New York Avenue, partly on the parkway):

* It's now second nature for every announcer doing Duke games, even in the NCAA tournament, to describe the Blue Devils as a win waiting to happen, and their opponents as eventually on their way to a loss. Sure enough, with eight minutes left and Duke up by five after having just taken its first lead since the first half, J.J. Redick squared up for a three, and as it was in the air, Dick Enberg said, "It could be the dagger if it falls!'' (Or something like that; forgive me, I wasn't taking notes, I leave that to the Medium Well blogger.) It would have given Duke an eight-point lead with eight minutes left. What group of mortals could possibly be expected to overcome that?

Later, when Redick hit his third (and final) basket of the game, with about three minutes left, Enberg broke out another one: "That could be the shot that gets him on track!'' He was something like 3 for 16 at that point.

Not that this sort of thinking is limited to Duke broadcasts. It infected NBA game calls throughout the Lakers' run earlier in the decade, including (or especially) the '04 Finals which they lost to Detroit. It took most people until the fifth and final game to realize that the Lakers actually were not the better team and were not destined to win. It's lazy more than anything else.

* Enberg is a certified play-by-play legend, but this was not a Hall of Fame performance. He shot about 40 percent overall on play stoppages (fouls, who they were called on, changes of possession, that sort of thing). Meanwhile, Jay Bilas might be better on games than he is in the studio. Oops, creeping into someone else's territory again.

* Redick hitting a wall at the end of each of his four seasons isn't necessarily a bad omen for his pro career, but it's not exactly a good one. Habitually running out of gas around game 32 tends to be looked upon unfavorably in an 82-game season, not including exhibitions and playoffs. In other words, regardless of what Dick Vitale says, NBA teams won't automatically be blind or stupid for not taking him in the top 5.

* Maybe Coach K could have offered the close-up fatherly advice and walked off the court arm-in-arm with Shelden Williams. Isn't he a senior, too, and didn't he do a little bit for the program, including show up in the last game of the season?

* OK, if you thought both Tyrus Thomas and Glen Davis would finish the game after picking up their third fouls so quickly in the second half, raise your hand. Now, if you had a feeling Williams wouldn't foul out after getting his fourth, raise your hand.

*It probably means absolutely nothing in terms of what Duke will be like next season, but Greg Paulus and Josh McRoberts looked a lot like freshmen in a big game, again. Speaking of which, wasn't it easy to forget that if things had gone differently, Duke could have had Luol Deng (now with the Bulls), Shaun Livingston (Clippers) and Shavlik Randolph (76ers, and actually healthy) this season? If all they had was Deng, they might be going to their third straight Final Four instead of going out in their second straight Sweet 16. Kind of puts that whole John Gilchrist-Chris McCray thing into perspective.

* May we all live long enough to see Duke lose another game in which the other team shoots 12 of 23 from the line. Of course, if you can't rebound those misses, wins are harder to come by.

* Boston College is the last ACC school left. One of them football schools. Uh-oh. If they do win it all, some old-liners are going to have some mixed feelings.