It's Official: Andre Dawkins Will Play This Year

It seemed very likely that Andre Dawkins would play for Duke in 2009-10 when I wrote about it nearly a month ago, but now it's official. As I said in my afore-linked post, I think this is tremendous news for a Duke program that was going to be dreadfully thin at the guard position. I don't think it makes Duke good enough to win the ACC, but they are now looking at something like a 4-6 seed in March, avoiding the possibility of actually becoming a bubble team for the first time since (arguably) 1996.