The love and hype of Duke and ACC is what caused their demise. The 24/7 coverage of Zions every dunk. How every pass he made was awesome. How Jones was the best defensive guard in the nation. How as great as Williamson was, Barrett was a close second. And then you had Reddish who was a top 5 draft pick.
Listening to all this hype made everyone think they couldn’t be beat. That’s why probably 75% of the people had them picked to win the championship this year.
It turns out that they were just a very good team, but not that much better than maybe a dozen or so other very good teams.
If you remember this same sort of thing happened last year with Duke. Next year let’s try to remember the two previous years and don’t drink the ESPN koolaid.