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This is what you get for ever picking North Carolina, Mr. President. President Barack Obama on Thursday heaped praise on the Duke men’s basketball team for winning the NCAA championship last month — a 61-59 victory over upstart Butler. But standing in the Rose Garden on a sticky day, Obama was still taking heat for (correctly) picking North Carolina, Duke’s rival, to win it all in 2009. Duke’s coach, Mike Krzyzewski, bristled a bit at Obama at the time and said the president should stick to fixing the economy. The two have since made up. “It was nothing personal,” Obama joked.
