Did Wake Forest and Duke Drink from the Same Fountain?

Who could have seen this coming?  Two former top-seeded teams fall (or should I say they were pile driven) by two unexpected teams. 

The No. 4 Duke Blue Devils fell to the No. 10 Clemson Tigers, 74-47 and No. 7 Wake Forest fell to unranked Miami, 79-52, leaving the rest of the nation with their mouths hanging open. 

"They shouldn't forget this loss...This is as bad as you can play," was Mike Krzyewski's comment about his team's performance.  "It was 40 minutes of them dominating," he adds along with, "They simply kicked our butts."  I think that's putting it mildly.

I'm sure that Wake Forest's coach Dino Gaudio may argue about saying that it was his team that played as bad as a team could play, but either way, to say the least, I think both Duke and Wake Forest have a lot of explaining to do.

There is simply no excuse for these two teams to have been blown away (both by 27 points) in the way they were, especially when they obviously have the team talent to have both been ranked No. 1 previously this season. Respectfully stated, both should have earned a victory last night.

I'll admit that I was worried about the Duke-Clemson game. Because to me, Duke just has not played up to their potential in the past three or four games (not including the historic Maryland victory). 

You cannot win games with only two people playing for your team, and that has been the case for Duke's Singler and Henderson.  If the rest of their team does not step up, I do not even foresee a Sweet Sixteen for them this year or a victory against Carolina this Saturday.  As for Wake Forest, I had already marked this as an easy win for them.

So what happened?

Was it the pressure of being a top-seeded team and having to uphold certain expectations or should the NCAA officials recalculate the way that they rank teams? 

Are Duke and Wake Forest top-seeded material, simply having a run of bad luck or is it the prior history of domination that these two teams share that automatically put them in the top spot? 

You decide...