Yet Duke's performance might have left some wondering if it is playing like a potential national champion.

It was soon obvious that he was a potential champion.

If the defense holds up and the bench helps, this team is a potential national champion.

This season has had too many odd bounces for a potential champion to be determined by one factor.

Many potential champions cannot adapt to the culture shock.

Michigan, with its controlled passing, is a potential national champion.

He viewed himself as a potential champion, frustrated at birth.

And if the Irish felt the season was over after losing to a potential national champion, what are they feeling now?

Every potential champion has to work his or her way up, often by participating in a hundred or more shows a year.

Up ahead is a potential champion whose sport goes on hiatus for years at a time.