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00:03 Wake Forest and Duke, Blue Blood program and Duke obviously relatively high over
00:07 under given my experiences with college basketball.
00:11 What do you make of Wake Forest and Duke tonight?
00:13 >> Yeah, I mean, there are some sevens and seven and a halfs out there on this line.
00:18 And look, I think there's a sense of overinflation on this number for
00:23 the Duke Blue Devils.
00:24 Wake Forest is really good.
00:25 They can match Duke punch for punch on the offensive end.
00:27 In fact, they play with more tempo and they're a much better free throw
00:30 shooting team.
00:31 And that's something that in a game like this is going to matter.
00:33 The big real question for the Demon Deacons here is,
00:37 weathering the storm of Cameron Indoor, right?
00:40 Like they go into this environment where I think the game script goes that
00:44 they sort of get punched in the mouth early a little bit.
00:46 I think Duke will have control the outset and have a lot of,
00:50 it's one of those nationally televised games that everybody's gonna be watching,
00:52 right?
00:53 It's on ESPN, so that environment is tough to weather the storm.
00:57 But Wake Forest is too good and too consistent, too good of a shooting team
01:00 across the board for them to get down by a lot and
01:04 not be able to get back in this thing.
01:06 And I think when you look at that total of 151 for this game,
01:10 you can see that these are two teams that are gonna play back and
01:14 forth pretty much for the entire 60 minutes here.
01:16 I think if Wake handles the storm and weathers it really well for
01:19 the first 20 minutes and manages to have a small lead at halftime,
01:23 they got a great shot to go out and steal a game altogether.
01:25 But I think Wake Forest here is the right side.
01:27 Duke is good.
01:29 I don't know if they're that much better than Wake Forest is.
01:34 And in conference play, Wake Forest actually has a better defense this year.
01:38 I know when you look at Ken Palm, you see what they have overall.
01:40 But conference play this year, Wake Forest has been the better defense.
01:43 They're great on the perimeter.
01:44 They're second best in three point field goal percentage defense.
01:48 They're big inside.
01:50 They don't allow a lot of offensive rebounds.
01:51 I mean, this is a matchup, I think, where we're overinflating Duke and
01:54 not giving Wake enough credit.
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