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RALEIGH, N.C. \u2014 In a college basketball world dominated by a transfer portal that promotes more player movement than people movement in Grand Central Terminal at rush hour, Sion James is a dinosaur.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old guard, who transferred to Duke before this season after playing four years at Tulane, will play in his 150th career college game on Sunday when the Blue Devils play Baylor in the NCAA Tournament second round at the Lenovo Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n
James\u2019 149th college game, which came on Friday in the first-round win over Mount St. Mary\u2019s, was his first NCAA Tournament game, some 1,576 days since his collegiate debut for Tulane.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And it is the realization of a dream.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was cool just looking around on the court, seeing the big NCAA Tournament logo on the floor, being in the game and then going back to the hotel and watching games and knowing that I just played in one of those,\u2019\u2019 James told The Post on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
James said every year Tulane was in its conference tournament knowing it had to win to earn an NCAA Tournament berth and it could never get over the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was always a dream, to play in the NCAA Tournament,\u2019\u2019 James said. \u201cAnd it hurt every single time that we didn\u2019t make it. So now, being here it\u2019s kind of gratifying knowing all what I went through.\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
James, who averages 8.5 points and 4.1 rebounds, had a quiet game Friday, scoring only two points on 0-for-5 shooting. <\/p>\n
But Duke is 26-1 since Duke coach Jon Scheyer inserted him into the starting lineup on Dec. 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMore than anything, I just feel like we started getting more and more connected as a team,\u2019\u2019 James said, deflecting personal praise. \u201cThat [26-1] number is great and it reflects well on me, but it\u2019s not really a \u2018me\u2019 thing. It\u2019s more of a matter us starting really clicking as a team.\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
James said his transfer to Duke \u201call happened pretty quickly.\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce I got in the portal, I got a call from Coach Scheyer,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cYou get a call from Jon Scheyer and Duke, you pick up the phone. I came here and everything made sense right away.\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
James said he never fathomed playing this many college games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have never thought about that,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cI just kind of thought about my freshman season, moving to New Orleans. I don\u2019t think I had the perspective at the time. But 150 games later \u2026 who would have thought?\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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