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Anna Snyder is the new Duke beat writer for the Fayetteville Observer and USA TODAY Sports Network.

Snyder previously covered high school and University of Alabama sports for The Tuscaloosa News.

She is a Kennesaw State graduate and grew up in the Atlanta area.

Let me set the scene for you.

It is April 2010 in Clearwater, Florida. I'm 9 years old, sitting next to my dad in my great aunt Jeril's den – way past my bedtime might I add – watching Duke basketball face Butler in the men’s NCAA championship. My dad, a longtime Duke fan since he attended one of coach Mike Krzyzewski’s camps in the 1980s, insisted I stay up with him – waiting to order himself a Duke national championship T-shirt if the Blue Devils won.

And after Gordon Hayward’s last-second shot clange

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