Should Cornell and Duke meet in the playoffs, and should both teams be fortunate to meet in the final, we're going to be the other team in The Duke Story. Everybody in the media who piled on the Dukies a year ago now may want to make amends and talk about how the Blue Devils recovered from adversity -- sort of like those Olympics Up Close and Personal things that hold your wife or girlfriend in thrall while you go search out another beer. So either we'll be the last pillar to fall as Duke fulfills its dream, or the team that kept the dream from happening.
If not Cornell, somebody else gets tagged with that descriptor of the team that keeps Duke (or falls to Duke) from Destiny.
Can we make a deal to find out right now? Stick us right in the finals against Duke? I'll take that deal.
You called it.