Oklahoma City Thunder

Prepare for my most intellectual review EVER...


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We Want Cave Shimp! We Want Cave Shrimp!

The Sports Logo Pundit is back! Recent emails from a couple of baseball front office folks has rekindled my interest in this blog and it's about time I got it going again. I'm not going to lie, I got a little tired of sports logos. Couple that boredom with a brand new baby in the house and you should be able to understand why you haven't heard much from me. I can't promise tons of posts or greatness, but you can expect at least a few posts each week. We'll just have to see how it goes.

One of the biggest reasons that I'm back is to encourage everybody to vote. Now I'm not talking presidential politics, I could care less. No, I'm talking big important stuff - like what to call the new Bowling Green, Kentucky baseball team. And I'm not doing this as a public service, I'm here to rally the troops for one name in particular...

"Bowling Green Cave Shrimp
Mammoth Cave, located near Bowling Green, is home to the endangered Kentucky Cave Shrimp, a sightless albino shrimp. The blind cave shrimp has been registered as an endangered species since 1983."

I haven't felt this strongly about a name the team contest since the GBL thought about naming one of their teams the Surprise Desert Penguins.

Please click here to go vote for the Cave Shrimp. Come on...do it for the Sports Logo Pundit. He needs the Cave Shrimp to win.

Picture stolen from Bus League Baseball who is also behind the Cave Shrimp name 100%

Tacoma Rainiers

When is an alternate logo not an alternate logo? I think the answer is probably when it adorns every single piece of merchandise available in the team store, appears on every single publication - ticket brochures, pocket schedules and programs, all the staff clothing features it and generally, the primary logo is nowhere to be found.

That's what I observed at the Tacoma Rainiers home opener a couple weeks ago. Everything was plastered with this logo, a logo that is technically their alternate and supposedly was only supposed to be worn on special occasions. Maybe the team won't be wearing it all the time on the field, but off the field, this logo suddenly seems primary.

Which is too bad, it's not a very good logo at all. It doesn't fit at all in with the current set of logos at all and while the star is supposed to represent the Mariners affiliation, the elimination of the teal totally distances it from the Mariners.

But what makes this a disaster is that the cursive "R" that is an iconic northwest symbol that has been passed down through generations to represent the word Rainier - from the Seattle Rainiers to Rainier Beer and now to the Tacoma Rainiers - is nowhere to be seen. I'd even suffer through the awkwardness of this logo...


...over the new alternate logo simply because the cursive "R" is front and, well, off-center.

Other parts of this alternate package work better than the logo. The jersey script is fantastic and the red and the blue really remind you of the Seattle Rainiers jerseys . However, the jersey itself looks like a softball uniform. Check out those sleeves! Not to mention that I'm a traditionalist that hates solid color uniforms. That's a whole nother post in itself.

Whatever, it's not the whole package I have a problem with. It's the complete takeover of Cheney Stadium by this lesser alternate logo. Is this logo the future? Will this become the primary logo shortly?

If it does, I'm extremely disappointed. I'll admit that an update is overdue, but an overhaul, and a cheap overhaul at that, is completely unnecessary.


Team: Tacoma Rainiers
League: Pacific Coast League
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Stadium: Cheney Stadium
Mascot: Rhubarb
Merchandise: Very little available. I hate that MiLB.com has taken over many team's online presence.

Seattle Sounders FC

I am so happy that Seattle's new Major League Soccer ownership group listened to the fans on the naming of the team that I'm willing to look past the awkward blue shield in their new logo. The fact that the team will be called the Sounders is enough of a victory for me.

I don't even mind the FC part. I understand the need to differentiate between this team and the current, original Sounders. That makes perfect sense to me.

And I'm not just saying that because I plan on applying for a job with them and I'm super nervous about my Googleability. I'm moving back up to Seattle in July and I'd love to be in on the ground floor of a new franchise. I would've wanted to work for whatever they called the team, it's just a bonus they are the Sounders.

However, I do think this concept I wrote about last year is a far superior logo.

DAY AFTER UPDATE - After I wrote this review last night and read Dave's comment, I went to bed and while trying to fall asleep I thought more about the Sounders logo. I've come to the sad conclusion that I can't overlook the faults just because of the name. In fact, because I love the name so much, I really feel cheated now by this lackluster effort.

I mentioned the second, blue shield that doesn't make any sense to me. I guess it was simply a way to get that blue somewhere in the logo. But how about this concept - a ten minute tweaking by jl murtagh on the Sportslogos.net forums. So much better, so much cleaner, improved upon by an amateur.

While that eliminates the unnecessary shield, two major problems still exist. First, the lettering. It's pretty obvious to me that they selected this logo long ago and left the name banner blank so they could fill it in when the time came to name the team. That being the case, the logo doesn't reflect the name Sounders at all and the lettering itself if just a basic font with just a tiny bit of embellishment. Nothing interesting or unique or eye-catching or marketable. Just a name, in normal font. Whoopee.

But what gets me the most is the design of the Space Needle. It is so basic, so cheap, that I'd expect to find better in the touristy gift shops that are in the Seattle Center. In fact, I'm sure I can probably find the same design on one of those three t-shirts for $9.99 table.

What I didn't think about last night is the missed opportunity that this logo represents. This could've and should've been so much better. This is a weak effort and whoever designed it can't really be proud of it. I bet it ended up being a logo by committee, and no logo looks right after that process.

As it stands now, this isn't an ugly logo, just a poorly designed one and it would've been no matter what name filled that banner.


Team: Seattle Sounders
League: Major League Soccer
Location: Seattle, Washington
Stadium: Qwest Field

2008 Bigger Dance - Now With DWP! Office Pool

Every single year I post something about this and hope someone will play along with me and nobody ever does. Well I don't care. Why not try one more time.

The 2008 Bigger Dance is here! The Bigger Dance is a tournament run by Seattle sports radio station KJR to determine what pop-culture female is the "Queen of the Hardwood". I'm not proud to love this contest, but I do. It's one of my great meat head pleasures. But the main reason is because the final prize is so awesome - A free trip to ANY sporting event in the world. Airfare, hotel and tickets included. Oh, and the babes, too.

This year I've setup a DOWN WITH PANTS! Office Pool. So if you are interested in competing against my entry, just go to The Bigger Dance page, sign up for a Sports Club membership (Sorry! Hopefully that's not a deal breaker. I don't ever get any spam from them if it makes you feel better), and then enter...

Pool Name: DOWN WITH PANTS!
Password: downwithpants

I want to offer a prize to the winner of the pool, I just haven't figured out what it should be.

In case you're wondering, my Final Four consists of Stacey Keibler, Hayden Panettiere, Jessica Biel and Jessica Alba. Stacey Keibler and Jessica Alba face off in the final with Jessica Alba taking home her third straight Bigger Dance Championship.

Sadly, they missed the boat. No Kristen Bell. Have they seen the trailers for Forgetting Sarah Marshall yet?

Brandon's Unknown Talent: Baseball Card Photographer

It was 2001, I was the Director of Media Relations/Community Affairs for the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings baseball team in Harlingen, Texas. Rapidly approaching was Team Baseball Card Night on our promotional schedule and we didn't have any cards made yet or had take any pictures yet and the deadline to get the photos in to ensure delivery by game day was only a day away.

We had no money to hire a professional and this was just before everybody and their mom had nice digital camera. So, since I had a camera that was a little bit more than a normal point-and-shoot - a beat up 35 mm Canon AE that was originally my parents when I was a kid that I had equipped with a nice zoom lens - I was enlisted to take the pictures.

Nevermind the fact that I had no experience and didn't really know how to use my camera that well. Until that point, I had just taken pictures for my amusement. I really didn't think that I'd do some work that would have to be published. But again, since the team had no money, it was up to me. I had one day to get it right.


I found the cards while I was home last week and all in all, given the circumstances, they aren't that bad. The color is horrible - I've always had trouble with the color on that camera for some reason. And some of the players I just couldn't get a good picture of - Willie Oropeza and Carlos Duncan in particular.

But some are really good. I love the picture of Joel Barreto because he was one of the only players that I took portraits of that smiled for me. No surprise there, he was always happy. Too bad you can't see his eyes. That's the problem with baseball caps.

And Joe Fretwell was such a good guy, one of the best dudes on our team. The card is a little weird because they cropped the picture so much, but the original photo is incredible and because of the beer ad over his shoulder, it fit him perfectly. Not that he was a drunk, it just worked with his personality in a weird way. It's one of my best pictures I've ever taken. I gave him the original when the season was over.


Clark Viegas was one of our coaches that we also signed to play for us late in the season when we were out of contention and didn't want to go through the hassle of finding a player to come down for only a week or two. This picture is great because it captures him looking like he's a coach showing you proper technique, but it also captures him as a player as well. Plus, he was a good guy too so I was happy to get a good picture of him.

Many of my best pictures were of the nicest guys on the team because they would help me out by posing or smiling or would let me keep taking pictures of them so I had a bunch to choose. The worst pictures are of guys that didn't care and didn't help or I didn't like enough to make sure they had a nice picture they would be happy with on their card.

And then there's the Jamie Clark card. Don't even ask me how I got him in this position, there's a point when you are throwing long that you hit and I somehow captured it. It was the only one that turned out of him, so I had to use it. Turns out it's one of my favorites and he was cut from the team before the cards were even finished, so I doubt he even saw it. I got future Major Leaguer Bobby Madritsch in a similar pose.

It still amazes me that I was asked to do these cards in the first place. It clearly illustrates just how shot the budget was for the WhiteWings that year. We didn't have a very good year on the field or in the stands and it hurt. It got so bad that there were times when payroll almost wasn't met. Occasionally our assistant general manager had to go out a few days before payroll and personally collect checks from people that owed us so that we would have enough money in the bank. Ah, the life of an independent baseball team.

What also amazes me is that this was only seven years ago - just yesterday in my book - and nobody associated with the team had a digital camera yet. That's crazy. The technology has advanced so quickly, has become so cheap and so readily available in such a short time period, it's absurd. Now anybody, and pretty much everybody, could take these pictures.

To see the whole set of professional baseball cards with amateur photography - these are crappy scans, by the way - click here.

South Shore Shooters

So anybody who thinks that a good nickname for a Gary, Indiana based sports team would be the Shooters, please raise your hand. Seriously, Andrew Haines and the rest of you team owners, you can put your hand down - you don't count.

And don't go defending it by telling me that it honors the local casinos, either. That's almost as bad as it's other connotation.

Wait, it's not actually in Gary? It's in Dyer, 10 miles away? Well that makes it soooo much better.

Oh yeah, and while we're at it, Dyer - enjoy your half season of ABAish hockey. Good luck with Mr. Haines there. He's never burned anybody.

Doesn't anybody do research before investing in sports franchises anymore?

Team: South Shore Shooters
League: Mid-Atlantic Hockey League - What a joke
Location: Dyer, Indiana - the greater Gary area
Arena: Midwest Training & Ice Center

NCAA Tournament Best Logos Bracket - The Rest

Continuing on with my picks...

Sweet Sixteen

East Regional

1. North Carolina Tar Heels
5. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Two schools with classic interlocking logos and solid secondary logos. The strength of the leprechaun is just too much for the Tar Heel logo. Winner: Notre Dame

3. Louisville Cardinals
10. South Alabama Jaguars
It's basically clip-art, but something about that Jaguar is just, awesome. Winner: South Alabama


Midwest Regional

1. Kansas Jayhawks
13. Siena Saints
The Cinderella story ends for Siena. The novelty of the Saint Bernard wore off and the consistent Jayhawk gets the win. Winner: Kansas

3. Wisconsin Badgers
2. Georgetown Hoyas
Two heavyweight logos, but tonight I'm a little obsessed with Bucky Badger. Good effort by the Hoyas, though. They just ran into a buzzsaw. Winner: Wisconsin


South Regional

1. Memphis Tigers
12. Temple Owls
Finally, Memphis comes up against a professional logo. Temple destroys them. Calipari weeps. Winner: Temple

14. Cornell Big Red
10. Saint Mary's Gaels
Two Cinderella's, only one spot in the Elite Eight. St. Mary's clover logo is on fire. Winner: Saint Mary's


West Regional

1. UCLA Bruins
5. Drake Bulldogs
The Bulldog cannot be stopped. UCLA's silly script of an abbreviation finally gets the boot. Winner: Drake

6. Purdue Boilermakers
2. Duke Blue Devils
Duke has coasted on reputation up until this point. But the Boilermakers cowcatcher pushed the Blue Devils off the tracks and into the woods. Winner: Purdue


Elite Eight

5. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
10. South Alabama Jaguars
It was a nice run for the Jaguars, but clip-art just can't get past logos as iconic as Notre Dame's. Winner: Notre Dame

1. Kansas Jayhawks
3. Wisconsin Badgers
Best game of the tournament so far. Kansas barely squeaks by basically because of just how well known the Jayhawk is. Bucky Badger, not so much outside of Wisconsin. Winner: Kansas

12. Temple Owls
10. Saint Mary's Gaels
The Temple logo is very nice, but it's a pretty basic owl, not a ton of creativity involved to create it. The Saint Mary's logo, on the other hand, is a one of a kind. Winner: St. Mary's

5. Drake Bulldogs
6. Purdue Boilermakers
The Bulldog is very nice, the best Bulldog of the bunch. But much like the Temple logo, it has peers. Purdue's logo is very unique. Winner: Purdue


Final Four

5. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
1. Kansas Jayhawks
This is a very tough call, both school's logos are classics. But Kansas squeezes by because of how much it represents college basketball. Notre Dame would get the nod in football. Winner: Kansas

10. Saint Mary's Gaels
6. Purdue Boilermakers
Two unique logo, but the Cinderella newcomer Saint Mary's takes home the cake simply because it is so much more eye catching than the Boilermaker's train. Winner: Saint Mary's


Championship

1. Kansas Jayhawks
10. Saint Mary's Gaels
The Gaels had a very nice run and their logo is definitely deserving of the top spot. But the Jayhawks logo is just a little bit better. Winner: Kansas


Ok, that was ridiculous. Saint Mary's in the Final Four? Highly doubtful. But what do you want to bet that this bracket ends up doing a lot better than some of the brackets that I actually put thought into? I'd be willing to bet that this one ranks near the top of all my brackets. If it doesn't win, it'll probably be the one where I picked the winners based on which mascots would kill the other mascots.

NCAA Tournament Best Logo Bracket - Second Round

Continuing on with my best logo bracket picks. Again, click on the team name to see the logo...

East Regional

1. North Carolina Tar Heels
8. Indiana Hoosiers
It's a battle of classic interlocking logos. Carolina's secondary logo seals the deal. Winner: North Carolina

5. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
4. Washington State Cougars
Like I said in the first round, I love the Cougars logo. But Notre Dame has two great, memorable logos. Sorry Wazzu, but once again, you Coug'd it. Winner: Notre Dame

6. Oklahoma Sooners
3. Louisville Cardinals
Oklahoma skated by in the first round with the simple interlocking logo, but Louisville's logo just has more life, even if it looks a little strange. Winner: Louisville

10. South Alabama Jaguars
2. Tennessee Volunteers
I'm telling you, that's one wicked Jaguar. South Alabama easily upsets Tennessee and their boring "T". Winner: South Alabama


Midwest Regional

1. Kansas Jayhawks
8. UNLV Runnin' Rebels
I love the Runnin' Rebels mustache, but the Jayhawk is just too iconic and memorable. Winner: Kansas

12. Villanova Wildcats
13. Siena Saints
Oooooo...Doggy! Winner: Siena

11. Kansas State Wildcats
3. Wisconsin Badgers
Before this tournament, I guess I never really noticed Bucky Badger. He's pretty badass. K-State only got by because USC is garbage. Winner: Wisconsin

7. Gonzaga Bulldogs
2. Georgetown Hoyas
The battle of the bulldog logos. I like Gonzaga's, but let's be honest, it's a little generic. The Hoyas logo is a one of a kind. Winner: Georgetown


South Regional

1. Memphis Tigers
8. Mississippi State Bulldogs
Memphis gets by once again despite having a horrible logo. Mississippi State only advanced because Oregon was so putrid. Winner: Memphis

12. Temple Owls
13. Oral Roberts Eagles
I never really noticed it too much before, but Temple's Owl logo is pretty good. Oral Robert's Eagle is just too amateurish to get into the Sweet Sixteen. Winner: Temple

11. Kentucky Wildcats
14. Cornell Big Red
Whoa...massive upset here. At second glance, I'm just not loving Kentucky's logo. Cornell, the sentimental favorite, and it's nasty looking bear pull it out in overtime. Winner: Cornell

10. Saint Mary's Gaels
2. Texas Longhorns
Another massive upset. St. Mary's logo is just too creative for the simple longhorn outline. Winner: Saint Mary's


West Regional

1. UCLA Bruins
9. Texas A&M Aggies
Again, not a fan of the Bruin's logos, but it's so much more bright and interesting and fun than A&M's. Winner: UCLA

5. Drake Bulldogs
13. San Diego Torreros
The Torreros strangely thin Torrero got by one dog, but Drake's Bulldog is too detailed and strong. Winner: Drake

6. Purdue Boilermakers
3. Xavier Musketeers
It was an X-citing run, but the single letter "X" can't stand up against a very cool train. Winner: Purdue

7. West Virginia Moutaineers
2. Duke Blue Devils
Duke barely beats out West Virginia for one sole reason: It has a devil in it. I'm a sucker for a devil. Winner: Duke

The rest of the tournament, coming up tomorrow...

NCAA Tournament Best Logo Bracket - First Round

The Sports Logo Pundit is back! It's been hard to find time to do any blogging since the birth of my first child in February, but I'm starting to get back into the swing of things.

And my first post back is a doozie. I've signed up for what seems like a million NCAA basketball brackets this year and I continue to use different methods, theories and general silliness to fill them out. For one of my brackets, I decided to pick whoever I though had the best logo. Seems like a natural thing to do for a logo blogger.

So here are my picks for the first round. They are poorly researched and most decisions were made after just a quick glance at the logo, so don't get too bent out of shape if you disagree.

To see the logo, click on the team's name...

East Regional

1. North Carolina Tar Heels
16. Mount St. Mary's Moutaineers
Carolina features the classic interlocking "NC" and the foot with tar on the heel. It's an iconic college basketball logo that is simple and works on nearly all fronts. Mount St. Mary's has a triangle and the words "The Mount" for a logo. Winner: North Carolina

8. Indiana Hoosiers
9. Arkansas Razorbacks
It's a simple interlocking IU versus a mean looking piggy. Like Carolina, the IU is classic and iconic. Winner: Indiana

5. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
12. George Mason Colonials
Is there a more recognizable logo than Norte Dame's "ND" or their boxing leprechaun? I don't think so. Mason's logo, a green and gold shooting star, can't compare. Winner: Notre Dame

4. Washington State Cougars
13. Winthrop Eagles
Though I am a Washington Huskies fan, I do have a secret love for the Cougars logo. In fact, it's one of my all-time favorites. Poor goofy looking Eagle never had a chance. Winner: Washington State

6. Oklahoma Sooners
11. St. Joseph Hawks
Again, it comes down to the simple, iconic interlocking "OU" over a cool but perhaps overly designed Hawks logo. Winner: Oklahoma

3. Louisville Cardinals
14. Boise State Broncos
I don't know why, but I've never been a big fan of the Louisville logo. But I really don't get Boise State's dead eyed, Smurf blue bronco. Winner: Louisville

7. Butler Bulldogs
10. South Alabama Jaguars
It's a clip art battle! But that's a pretty wicked Jaguar. Winner: South Alabama

2. Tennessee Volunteers
15. American Eagles
I hate to give the win to a bit orange "T", but that is one seriously ugly eagle. Yuck! Winner: Tennessee


Midwest Regional

1. Kansas Jayhawks
16. Portland State Vikings
I want to give this to the futuristic, disembodied Viking head but I just can't. The Jayhawks logo is one of the most recognizable in all of college basketball. Winner: Kansas

8. UNLV Runnin' Rebels
9. Kent State Golden Flashes
Kent State's hawk head and spine are no match for the best mustache in all of collegiate athletics. Winner: UNLV

5. Clemson Tigers
12. Villanova Wildcats
A big orange paw versus the letter V. Villanova's use of two colors secures them an overtime victory. Winner: Villanova

4. Vanderbilt Commodores
13. Siena Saints
Nothing against Vanderbilt's logos, but I'm just a big sucker for a big ole' Saint Bernard. Winner: Sienna

6. USC Trojans
11. Kansas State Wildcats
USC has better logos, I'll admit. But I hate them with such a passion, I cannot pick them to win anything. Winner: Kansas State

3. Wisconsin Badgers
14. Cal State Fullerton Titans
Wisconsin has two logos that they use all the time, the "W" and their awesome Badger. Fullerton is one of those schools that has multiple versions of their logo used for many different things and none of them really work. Winner: Wisconsin

7. Gonzaga Bulldogs
10. Davidson Wildcats
Davidson's logo looks like a charcoal sketch. Probably the worst NCAA Division 1 logo period. Winner: Gonzaga in a landslide.

2. Georgetown Hoyas
15. UMBC Retrievers
The Hoyas have one of the best looking dog logos in the NCAA while UMBC might have the worst. Winner: Georgetown


South Regional

1. Memphis Tigers
16. Texas-Arlington Mavericks
Ugh. I have to pick between these two stinkers? I can't believe that a major university like Memphis has such a generic looking logo. But it's so much better than the horrible UTA horsey. Winner: Memphis

8. Mississippi State Bulldogs
9. Oregon Ducks
Mississippi State takes the win simply because they have a banner across their "M" that reads State while Oregon is simply an "O". Winner: Mississippi State

5. Michigan State Spartans
12. Temple Owls
Now this is a major upset. The combination of their "T" and their sweet Owl beats a big green "S". Winner: Temple

4. Pittsburgh Panthers
13. Oral Roberts Eagles
This is the upset bracket. I hate the Pittsburgh Panther's logos. The "Pitt" is fine, the panther is so nasty. Oral Roberts has a cartoon Eagle, but at least he's an agreeable fellow even if he was funded by the lies of a televangelist. Winner: Oral Roberts

6. Marquette Golden Eagles
11. Kentucky Wildcats
The "MU" logo looks fine and is probably, on it's own, better than the Kentucky "UK". But the "UK" logo is such a major part of college basketball and is so iconic, it can't be defeated by a similar, maybe better newcomer. Winner: Kentucky

3. Stanford Cardinal
14. Cornell Big Red
Stanford features an "S" with a tree, while Cornell has a big, mean, roaring bear. I'm also factoring Cornell's old, sassy bear logo and that my wife is an alum. Winner: Cornell

7. Miami Hurricanes
10. Saint Mary's Gaels
The interlocking "SMC" that Saint Mary's unveiled last year is one of my favorite new college logos. Miami's funky looking seagull and their "U" can't match it. Winner: Saint Mary's

2. Texas Longhorns
15. Austin Peay Governors
Let's Go Peay! Let's Go Peay! Too bad the "AP" logo is no match for the Longhorns. Winner: Texas


West Regional

1. UCLA Bruins
16. Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils
While I've never been a huge fan of UCLA's logos, they are definitely much better than MVSU's. The Delta Devils have such potential though. Someone design them a better logo. Please! Winner: UCLA

8. BYU Cougars
9. Texas A&M Aggies
While I like the BYU logos, it's hard to figure out which ones they are actually using right now. The A&M logo isn't anything special necessary, but at least it's consistent and well known. Winner: Texas A&M

5. Drake Bulldogs
12. Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
So many Bulldogs. I love the Gonzaga logo, but the detail in Drake's Bulldog makes this my favorite Bulldog logo. I used to think higer of Western Kentucky's logo, then I took a closer look. It's just a hand and a sash. Winner: Drake

4. Connecticut Huskies
13. San Diego Torreros
Upset alert! San Diego's kind of effeminate Torrero takes down Connecticut's panting, fey Husky. Winner: San Diego

6. Purdue Boilermakers
11. Baylor Bears
I've always liked the way Purdue's train logo and the school's name on the cowcatcher. Baylor's bear just isn't very memorable. Winner: Purdue

3. Xavier Musketeers
14. Georgia Bulldogs
The "X" is so edgy. The G, is fine, but it's just not X-citing enough. Winner: Xavier

7. West Virginia Moutaineers
10. Arizona Wildcats
This one comes down to a last second shot and West Virginia hits a runner from halfcourt. Winner: West Virginia

2. Duke Blue Devils
15. Belmont Bears
Duke gets the nod even though I like Belmont's cray bear logo. But for college basketball's premier program, their logo really is kind of unmemorable. Winner: Duke

The rest of the tournament coming shortly...