Duke Enters NCAA Tournament with National Title Hopes

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00:00Let's head over here to the east. It's the Duke Blue Devils. The reason I bring that up is,

00:03we think Duke's the best. Their price is the best. My question to you is, out of this region,

00:08does Duke make the Elite Eight into the Final Four, or can somebody knock them out? Could it

00:13be Mississippi State Baylor? Could it be Arizona? Could it be Oregon? Could it be Liberty on a hot

00:17run? Or is Duke just too good and expect them to win this region, Mark? Must have read my mind

00:23there, DRS, because I don't have Duke to the Elite Eight. In fact, I do. I just want to beat

00:28him. Look, I think there's a couple things that are going to happen here. One, Duke is going to

00:33find out how the other half lives now that they're out of the ACC. And I'm not necessarily, you know,

00:38saying that, look, they can't hang with other talent, but they haven't really had to do so

00:43since December, right? And they haven't played a close game other than losing to Clemson

00:48since December. Let's find out how really battle-tested they are in really tough minutes

00:53against teams that, again, have nothing to play for and are playing with house money

00:57in games that may be tighter than expected. The other thing about Arizona I think that is,

01:01you know, really significant here. I always look at matchups and styles when it comes to the NCAA

01:07tournament. And you look at Arizona, that is a team that can do everything that Duke can do.

01:13Certainly they play faster, but they get up and down. They are a team that rebounds really well.

01:18They can have somebody guard Cooper Flagg inside. They can play man-to-man with him

01:23and not get totally dominated for 40 minutes. They can take Duke's game and throw it right

01:28back in their face, which is ultimately why I believe they're going to beat Duke

01:31and head to the Final Four out of that East region.