One football school from the state of Florida went in to Cameron Indoor Stadium a few weeks ago and shocked the Blue Devils. That was Florida State. Just to show it was no fluke, another football school from the state of Florida went there on Super Bowl Sunday and did it too. That was Miami.

Reggie Johnson led the Hurricanes with 27 points and Kenny Kadji added 15 as the ‘Canes hung on after blowing a 16 point lead in the second half.

“I feel I had the hot hand the whole game,” Johnson said, adding that first-year coach Jim Larranaga “was trying to ride me a whole lot. My teammates found me in good positions - catch and score.”

“To come in here and play with the kind of poise we did, play the kind of defense we did - especially in the first half and in the overtime - was something that we can be very, very proud of,” Larranaga said.

Seth Curry led the Blue Devils with 22 and Austin Rivers chipped in 20 points. Afterward their Head Ball Coach was none too happy with the effort.

“A Duke team should play with energy for 40 minutes, or 45,” coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Go outside right now and you look at the banners - there are quite a few of them up there. They were not won without energy, without hunger, with no complacency, with people really wanting it.

“And we’ve wanted it a lot, and we’ve won a lot. We’re supposed to play hard and with energy all the time. Those are givens. Those should be givens.”

“For 24 minutes, I just think we were not very good at all,” Krzyzewski said. “We had no energy and they did. … Then in the last 16 minutes of regulation, I thought we played extremely well and gave ourselves an opportunity to win.”

Coach Larranaga said after the game, “the players are very excited for the victory here at Cameron. It is a legendary arena. Coach K has another top 10 team in the country. To come in here and play with the kind of poise and defense we did, especially in the first half and overtime, was something that we can be very proud of. What we talked about with the team before the season ever began was a book that Bill Walsh wrote The Score Takes Care of Itself, and it is really about your performance. You can evaluate your performance based on numbers. Our players today really took to heart not worrying about the score whether we were ahead, behind or tied but to execute the plan we had. We had to make a bunch of adjustments. I am very proud of my coaching staff because I was not at practice on Friday or yesterday due to the flu. My assistants put together the game plan and executed the strategies at practice. The players executed it beautifully throughout the game. So I am very, very proud of the win and the way things materialized.”