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Duke Enters NCAA Tournament with National Title Hopes
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3/21/2025
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Let's head over here to the east. It's the Duke Blue Devils. The reason I bring that up is,
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we think Duke's the best. Their price is the best. My question to you is, out of this region,
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does Duke make the Elite Eight into the Final Four, or can somebody knock them out? Could it
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be Mississippi State Baylor? Could it be Arizona? Could it be Oregon? Could it be Liberty on a hot
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run? Or is Duke just too good and expect them to win this region, Mark? Must have read my mind
00:23
there, DRS, because I don't have Duke to the Elite Eight. In fact, I do. I just want to beat
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him. Look, I think there's a couple things that are going to happen here. One, Duke is going to
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find out how the other half lives now that they're out of the ACC. And I'm not necessarily, you know,
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saying that, look, they can't hang with other talent, but they haven't really had to do so
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since December, right? And they haven't played a close game other than losing to Clemson
00:48
since December. Let's find out how really battle-tested they are in really tough minutes
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against teams that, again, have nothing to play for and are playing with house money
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in games that may be tighter than expected. The other thing about Arizona I think that is,
01:01
you know, really significant here. I always look at matchups and styles when it comes to the NCAA
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tournament. And you look at Arizona, that is a team that can do everything that Duke can do.
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Certainly they play faster, but they get up and down. They are a team that rebounds really well.
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They can have somebody guard Cooper Flagg inside. They can play man-to-man with him
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and not get totally dominated for 40 minutes. They can take Duke's game and throw it right
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back in their face, which is ultimately why I believe they're going to beat Duke
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and head to the Final Four out of that East region.
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