{"id":336,"date":"2010-02-16T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T04:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2010-02-16T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T04:08:10","slug":"dukes-beats-the-dukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Dukes Beats the Dukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia State&#8217;s Joe Dukes poured in 25 points to lead the Panthers to a 77-72 victory over JMU. This one cuts especially deep for me. You see, I used to live in Atlanta and now I&#8217;m never going to hear the end of it from all of the Georgia State fans I know. Just kidding. Georgia State has no fans. Seriously. No fans at all. I&#8217;m not even sure if Georgia State has full time students.<\/p>\n<p>So, while it&#8217;s nice that JMU fans aren&#8217;t going to be forced to suffer abuse from Georgia State fans, this is a terrible loss. Losing to Georgia State earlier at home was awful, but we wrote it off because those were the &#8220;Pre-Denzel Dukes&#8221;. Tonight, Denzel was in the lineup, and he was dominating, and JMU still didn&#8217;t win. Bowles did all he could to keep his team in the game and he finished with 34 points and 9 boards. Julius Wells had 18 points. No other Duke scored more than 9 points.<\/p>\n<p>There really isn&#8217;t much to be said at this point. There is no point trying to break down what went wrong or explain why the Dukes lost. The fact is that even with a depleted roster, JMU is talented enough that the Dukes should be losing games to the likes of Georgia State, UNCW, and Towson. It&#8217;s the same old thing we&#8217;ve been saying all season. This team is just inconsistent in every way possible. Until Coach Brady gets them to string together a couple results like last Saturday&#8217;s win over VCU (or even just string together a couple strong efforts), this team just isn&#8217;t going to separate itself from the bottom of the CAA. Denzel is a beast though. So we got that going for us, which is nice.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D336&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia State&#8217;s Joe Dukes poured in 25 points to lead the Panthers to a 77-72 victory over JMU. This one cuts especially deep for me. You see, I used to live in Atlanta and now I&#8217;m never going to hear the end of it from all of the Georgia State fans I know. Just kidding. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,14,4],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1779,"url":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=1779","url_meta":{"origin":336,"position":0},"title":"JMU Loses at the Buzzer and Technology Screws Me","date":"December 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Dukes' six game winning steak came to an abrupt halt today with a 64-63 loss to Georgia State. The loss was bad enough on its own . Coming at the hands of the lowly Georgia State Panthers on a buzzer beater made it worse. 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