Coach K: 'We’re not as good as they are right now. They’re better than us'

The man said it... after a 101-87 beating - Coach K told the world the North Carolina Tar Heels are better than the Duke Blue Devils.

Now... to be fair, that's only part of the quote. Here's the whole thing:

"...we’re not as good as they are right now. They’re better than us, and sometimes a team that’s better doesn’t play as well as that, but they played that way too. It’s going to be difficult to beat them. We just have to keep getting better. We’ve come a long away from last Wednesday and we just have to keep improving.”

So what's this "last Wednesday" he's referring to? That's the Blue Devil's 47-74 loss to the ACC's Clemson Tigers.

In that loss, Coach K admitted "It was 40 minutes of them dominating, they just kicked our butts."

So is this a trend - or just a really bad week for the Duke b-ball team? Are the Blue Devils on the way down?