The seven stages of grieving when you don't get men's basketball tickets. Ever.

Ah, the basketball lottery — the wonderful system that randomly gives out the coveted men’s basketball tickets for important games such as the one against Louisville tonight. 

I didn't get tickets for tonight's game, and I am still very bitter about it. For that reason, I created the stages of entering and not winning the lottery presented in GIF form to hopefully make you feel a little less sad about not getting to see the treasure that is Roy Williams up close.

To all those entering in the Duke lottery today, best of luck, and I hope you won't be able to relate to what I'm going through.

1. You enter the lottery while thinking, “It’s finally my time! I can feel it!”

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2. A few days later, you see the fate-determining email from Carolina Athletics.

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3. You open it and read the words, “Unfortunately, you HAVE NOT been randomly selected...” 

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4. You desperately text everyone you know asking if they won the lottery.

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5. You resign yourself to another home game spent in the library and not near Roy Williams.

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6. You spend that entire library session doing literally anything but work, thinking “I could’ve been at the game but nooo, I didn’t get tickets.”

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7. You enter the next lottery with that same bright optimism, thinking “This time is the one.”

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