Marty Mush's Duke take backfires vs. Michigan State

The receipt is still sitting on his timeline. Marty's Nov. 10 pregame post was up on the Sports Central screen the next day, and so was its reply count.

Sports Central

@SportsCentralBS

Marty went all in on Duke this season and they already laid an egg

Marty Mush

@martymush

If you want to watch greatness. Watch Duke win by 15+ against the number 5 team in the country Michigan State tonight

Hubbs didn't need to add much. His whole caption was 'who could have seen this coming?', which is about as dry as it gets. Here's the tweet he was quoting, word for word: 'If you want to watch greatness. Watch Duke win by 15+ against the number 5 team in the country Michigan State tonight.' It had 213.5K views by the time the show got to it. A lot of those people came back to collect.

Here's what happened instead. At the State Farm Champions Classic at the United Center, Tom Izzo's team did what Izzo's teams do. They roughed Duke up, held the Blue Devils to 33.3% shooting (20-for-60) and forced 13 turnovers. Michigan State was up 50-36 with 13:37 left, and Duke never got all the way back. Final: Michigan State 79, Duke 73. So much for 15-plus. That's a 21-point miss from the pick to the final score.

Jeremy Fears Jr. ran the game with 18 points, 11 assists and 7 rebounds. Jordan Scott blocked 6 shots. Duke also left points at the line, going 26-for-37 on free throws. John Blackwell led the Blue Devils with 17, and Patrick Ngongba II added 11. The Spartans are 3-0, and it's their first win over Duke since December 2020. Duke drops to 2-1, and Marty's 'greatness' took a loss in Week 1.

Sports Central

@SportsCentralBS

Marty went all in on this Duke team and they already paid an egg t.co/BB3UF28sYU

Marty Mush

@martymush

If you want to watch greatness. Watch Duke win by 15+ against the number 5 team in the country Michigan State tonight

None of this should shock anyone who follows Marty. He went to Duke, and he once posted his diploma to shut up people who said he didn't. On Duke he's the most all-in guy at Barstool, and he hands out that kind of guarantee all the time. What gets him in trouble is the margin. Saying Duke beats a top-5 team is a take. Saying Duke wins by 15 against a Michigan State team that defends like this is asking for exactly the treatment he got on Sports Central.

To be fair to Marty, it's November and nobody's season ended in Chicago. Duke is still the No. 2 team in the country and will have plenty of chances to back up his hype. Next time, though, he might skip the point spread. The internet keeps the receipts, and so do his coworkers.