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Matt and Rob began writing their Two Dukies Pick the ACC material for Internet newsgroup rec.sport.basketball.college in 1997-1998, and debuted a Two Dukies website the next season while continuing to post on r.s.b.c.  In September of 1999, Dukies.com was born, and since then, the site has continued to feature the Two Dukies material, now long past its shelf life in its eleventh season, as well as other pieces on ACC basketball and life in general.  Dukies.com was redesigned and relaunched in November of 2007 with enhanced features and graphics, if not, sadly, any improvement in content.  For more information on the site, its content, and its history, please visit the FAQ, linked off the main page, and see if anyone’s gotten around to populating it yet. 

Matt is a graduate of Duke University and Wake Forest University School of Law, and in his spare time not spent presiding over the Dukies.com command center, practices law in the Northeast.  Matt comes from a family of Duke grads, including his parents, who were married in the Duke Chapel, and has been watching Duke basketball avidly since roughly 1984 or 1985, when someone very important convinced him that college basketball was worth keeping an eye on.  Matt was born in New Haven, CT, and has lived in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Oklahoma (yep!), California, and North Carolina.  The years in Oklahoma turned him into a fan of the Dallas Cowboys, and being born in New England spurred him to swear an early allegiance to the Boston Red Sox, but Duke is first among equals as far as his rooting interests.  Matt has a little habit of visiting sports stadiums, including 29 of the 30 current major league baseball parks, as well as many of their predecessors.  He has also been to 78 Division I basketball arenas, and is trying to get to all 330+ someday, if they let him in, of course.  Those 78 venues include every ACC arena except Miami’s pad and Virginia’s new abode.  Matt’s hobbies include liberal Democratic politics, movies, one-hour television dramas, “reading” long books for months, and droning on in senseless bios.  Many of these elements, especially the senseless droning, make their way into the material you will read (or not read) on this site.  Matt claims to provide the content management for Dukies.com, and can be reached with questions or comments at matt@dukies.com. 

Rob is a graduate of Duke University, but thankfully didn’t know Matt until much later.  He abandoned a promising career in information technology and Florida politics to study law, and currently resides with his wife and three children in the Southeast.  Rob has been a fan of Duke basketball for his entire life, and provides excellent historical perspective on the halcyon days of the ACC, before it was bloated and corrupted by college football.  Two Dukies Pick the ACC was Rob’s brainchild, and he provided tireless IT support to Dukies.com for an uncounted sum of your Earth years.  He continues to contribute his technical wizardry to the site when his work and studies allow.       

Rob and Matt are joined in their endeavors by an outstanding supporting cast, including duhomme, a Washington, D.C.-area deep cover operative who provides guest material and will be joining the Two Dukies fold on a regular basis this season; Al White, a fluent speaker of jive and a West Coast corporate apparatchik who is not to be confused with any Hollywood actors; CDG, a citizen of Canada who lends her valuable north-of-the-border perspective to her fervent support of the Blue Devils; Iceman, a New York-based professional who contributes recaps of Duke games; and the many fine men, women and other species who offer their comments in response to the palaver posted here.  Dukies.com would not exist without its readers, who number in the tens and whose number is growing steadily when it’s not shrinking.