Mike Krzyzewski found a silver lining in his No. 1-ranked Blue Devils losing to Kansas at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night.The fact that we fought hard, that we played against a really good team, and then shake hands with them because they hit a big, big shot and played really hard, Krzyzewski said after the last-second shot knocked the Blue Devils lost to the No. 7 Jayhawks.You learn a lot from playing at this level of game and thats why this Champions Classic is so important for these four programs (No. 2 Kentucky clobbered No. 13 Michigan State in the other game) to be able to play in games like this.The Blue Devils opened the season with easy wins over Marist and Grand Canyon in the home-court opening games of the Naismith Hall of Fame Tip-Off Tournament and Saturday will face Penn State in the opener of a double-header at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn.No. 21 Rhode Island and No. 24 Cincinnati play in the nightcap and the winners meet on Sunday for the title, with the losers vying for third place.The Nittany Lions are also 2-1, but the loss didnt come against Kansas -- it came at home to Albany in the opener. Patrick Chambers team is young and allowed 79 points per game, beating Grand Canyon and Duquesne.Penn State was outrebounded 124-96 in the first three games and it will be going up against stronger teams this weekend.Rebounding is a major concern of mine right now, we have to do a much better job in that area right now, Chambers said earlier this week.Dukes Grayson Allen suffered through a tough night at Madison Square Garden, where he scored 12 points on 4-for-15 from the floor.I think Grayson had a very frustrating game, Krzyzewski said of Allen, who missed 11 of his first 12 shots. I think you cant expect to get a foul. I think hes getting to a point where he makes a move and its a good move and he expects a foul.Im not saying theyre not calling fouls. You cant do that. That cant be what youre doing. The last few minutes, he moved well. Hes playing hard when he gets the ball and he needs to play harder when he doesnt have the ball. Its what he did in the last few minutes.The Blue Devils held Kansas to 2-of-17 from 3-point range and come into this game limiting their three opponents to a .148 percentage from behind the arc. On the other side, Duke enters this game having made at least one 3-pointer in 950 straight games.The Blue Devils also come in with the reigning ACC rookie of the week in Frank Jackson, who is averaging 16.7 points, two assists and 2.7 rebounds in his first three college games. Despite the tough shooting night, Allen is averaging 17.7 points, 5.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists.Theyre shooting the heck out of the ball from three (38.6 percent) right now, Chambers said. From two, they have a very good percentage (48.6 overall). Theyre getting to the free throw line. Theyre shooting -- theyre making more than their opponents are even attempting. They are doing some great things and theyre doing exactly what Coach K wants his team to do.The Nittany Lions have five players averaging in double figures. Shane Doan Jersey . R.J. Umberger scored twice to lead the Blue Jackets to a franchise-record for consecutive wins with a 5-3 victory Tuesday night over the Los Angeles Kings. Mike Gartner Jersey . Vaives lawyer Trevor Whiffen claims the former 50-goal man wasnt provided with a copy of the claim beforehand and that he would not have agreed to the allegations made against the NHL had he been asked to review its contents. https://www.cheapcoyotes.com/ .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable. Barrett Hayton Jersey . Team physician Dr. Steve Traina performed the surgery Friday. Robinson was injured in a spill underneath the Nuggets basket during the first quarter of Wednesday nights loss to the Charlotte Bobcats. Clayton Keller Jersey . Brad Jacobs and his Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., team took control of the game early. CHICAGO -- Matt Ridley climbed his ladder, scrawled a tribute to his deceased loved ones and high fived his mom when his feet hit the sidewalk.The Cubs winning it all still seemed a bit surreal to him. Yet, there he was writing Ridley Nation high on the brick bleacher wall along Waveland Avenue in honor of his brother, father and uncle.Every time I hear the call of the last out, it almost sounds like its not real -- like its a joke, Ridley said Monday.No joke, the Chicago Cubs at long last won the World Series when they beat the Cleveland Indians last week. And their first championship in 108 years stirred all sorts of emotions.Fans who werent sure they would ever see it happen have been thinking about loved ones who never got to witness it. Theyve been flowing to Wrigley Field in a steady stream, turning the walls and sidewalks outside the famed ballpark into one gigantic chalkboard.The bricks beyond the ivy are jammed with names and notes to family members. There are messages encouraging the team, and drawings, too.It was all in chalk, and it was all about to go away.The Cubs announced Monday they need to remove the messages and artwork due to offseason construction. Fans had until 5 p.m. CST Tuesday, though some were still adding to the walls sidewalks after the deadline. The team also said final photographs will be taken and displayed publicly at a later date.Fans started writing encouraging messages to the team in chalk on the walls outside the bleachers during the run to the Cubs first championship since 1908, and they have continued in such a steady stream there is little room left anywhere outside the ballpark, be it outside the bleachers or near the marquee.Along Sheffield Avenue, beyond right field, Kathleen and Bob Dove of Evanston found a spot a few feet up the wall to pay tribute to her mother. They colored a brick in light blue chalk and wrote Dorothy McGuire in white.The whole time I grew up, it revolved around the Cubs game -- meals, Kathleen Dove said. She knew all the players every year. She would tell me all the statistics, this will be the year. She was a very typical diehard, I mean just brutally diehard, Cubs fan. She would be really amazed at this.Bob Dove, a retired sound technician for Chicago PBS affiliate WTTW, recalled working on a documentary about Bill Veeck Jr. during the last year of his life. And he has little doubt Veeck would have loved the scene playing out along the streets outside Wrigley.We have all of this angst about immigrants and raciial animus and all that stuff, Bob Dove said.dddddddddddd. The Cubs victory is the greatest thing to happen in Chicago right now because everything else thats going on right now is so negative. Veeck would love this wall because its representative of his philosophy of being a team for everyone. And he was the person that integrated the American League.Bill Veeck went to work for the Cubs when his father Bill Sr. was team president and was responsible for the ivy being planted in 1937. He also integrated the American League as owner of the Cleveland Indians when he signed Larry Doby and frequently hung out in the Wrigley Field bleachers after selling the White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf in 1981.Kim Bresnahan of Evanston was on the phone with her friend Nana Sedor in Homer, Alaska, as she looked for space on the wall along Sheffield. Bresnahan was there to pay tribute to her ex-husbands father as well as her friends brother Chris, a loyal fan who died at 16.This victory was for every underdog in the world, Nana Sedor said.The two friends have been following the Cubs for decades, going back to the black cat and the collapse against the New York Mets in 1969. They recalled ditching school to go to Wrigley Field as teenagers and cheer on those Lovable Losers. In some ways, this championship run was like a shock to the system -- a glorious shock to the system.In our lives, we dont have a lot of hope, Bresnahan said. Theres a lot of bad stuff going on. And its like, `Oh my God, if the Cubs can do it in 108 years, we can do anything. Right?Lifelong Cubs fan Becky Ellous cried when the championship drought ended and thought about her grandfather Frank Sokol, who died five years ago at age 87. To him, the Cubs were bozos, yet he would watch every game no matter how bad they were.This would have made him so happy, Ellous said. He would have loved every single minute of it.Along Waveland Avenue, Ridley said he started bawling listening to Eddie Vedders Someday Well Go All The Way heading to the ballpark on Monday.He came with his 12-year-old son Matthew Jr., and his mom Nancy Ridley, who grew up on Addison a few blocks from the famed marquee. She was in the bleachers for Game 6 of the NLCS when then the Cubs beat the Dodgers for their first pennant since 1945. And she was blunt when asked if she thought she would see a moment like this.No, she said. I really didnt. ' ' '