Jon Scheyer under fire after Duke’s historic loss to UConn

Jon Scheyer and the Duke Blue Devils should be cutting down the nets right now and looking forward to the Final Four next weekend in Indianapolis.

Instead, Scheyer is sitting in disbelief with teary-eyed college kids around him, as Dan Hurley and the Connecticut Huskies are dancing into the national semifinals once again.

The Blue Devils were up 15 at half and cruising over UConn, but as crunch time came, the wheels started to fall off for the top team in the country.

And like Scheyer’s team last year, when they lost to the Houston Cougars in the Final Four with NBA Rookie of the Year frontrunners Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel, Duke imploded at the worst possible time.

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Even with everything going wrong, though, it looked like Duke would have a reprieve. After some missed free throws by UConn, all Duke had to do was inbound the ball, get fouled, and make two free throws to essentially ice the game.

But in a moment of pure desperation and fear, the Blue Devils didn’t hold onto the ball and attempted a risky pass that got deflected. The Huskies got the ball, Braylon Mullins got a chance to shock the world, and he did just that, nailing a three-pointer to put the knife in the heart of Duke fans across the globe.

After the game, Scheyer was lambasted on social media for the historic choke, and, for a second year in a row, a Blue Devils team lost a game they had no business losing.