Duke to Face Syracuse as Heavy Favorites at Home on Wednesday

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00:00I mean, the Blue Devils tonight, 18 and a half point favorites.

00:02That's how well they've been playing.

00:03They're at Syracuse.

00:04So that's an embarrassing line, by the way, too, for the Qs.

00:07143 and a half is the total there.

00:10It just shows you how good a Duke is.

00:13And I guess the must-see guy is Cooper Flagg.

00:16I mean, very rare do we have scenarios in sports, especially at the collegiate

00:22level, Mike, where a player starts off the season projected to be the number

00:26one player in the country, and he ends up doing it.

00:29Like, how many times do we think that the Heisman in football is going to be

00:32someone and ends up being someone else?

00:34Same thing in college basketball as well.

00:36So this is a wire-to-wire must-see guy, and I would imagine another big game

00:40could be in store tonight, big spread.

00:42Yeah, he's just an amazing player.

00:45He's gotten himself to the point where he's scoring regularly in the 20s, and

00:50that was never supposed to be his greatest strength.

00:53It was more about the total game, his ability to understand his defense, his

00:58passing, his rebounding, and now he's making shots and scoring as well.

01:03Just an amazing player.

01:04It's a really interesting thing.

01:06I mentioned Janiye Broome before.

01:08This may be the best player of the year race we've had in decades, maybe since I

01:14started covering college basketball or going back to maybe the years when there

01:19was Christian Laettner and Shaquille.

01:22Maybe these guys aren't that level.

01:24They're pretty close, but the level of competition between the two of them and

01:29what they've been able to bring is going to be one of the really terrific player of

01:33the year debates, and any chance you get to watch either Cooper Flagg or Janiye

01:37Broome, go for it.