The Duke Blue Devils and Furman are playing live on the NCAA college basketball schedule on Wednesday and the matchup from Cameron Indoor Stadium in NC comes on ESPNU on TV from ESPN and it will be streaming from the WatchESPN website as Jahlil Okafor and Quinn Cook try and keep the team undefeated this season.
Duke is one of the overall favorites in the nation and the team is currently ranked at number four overall. The team has five wins on the season and they are already 2-0 at home and they come in after a nice win against Stanford in their last matchup. Duke comes in as one of the best teams in the ACC this season along with Virginia and North Carolina and they should be one of the teams left at the end of things this year in the tournament.
Okafor is the next sensation and he joins up with Cook, who is the lone senior and the point guard and he comes in after scoring 18 points and adding five assists against Stanford. Okafor has been leading the team in scoring this season and he was tops in rebounds with 12 against the Cardinal. The Blue Devils are averaging 89 points per game this season and they are ranked 13th in the nation in the early goings and they also are 15th in both assists and field goal percentage.
The team has won five straight and coming up they play Army and after that is a huge matchup with number two Wisconsin and that should be one of the best early games of the season. The ACC schedule is always tough and this year the team has to deal with Miami, UVA and North Carolina as well as Louisville as teams that are ranked. Duke, the Cavaliers, Tar Heels and Cardinals are all ranked in the top 10 and that makes the ACC one of the stronger conferences this season.
Duke has a matchup with UConn coming up next month and heading into the ACC schedule they have a number of big games. The team opens with BC and Wake and later plays against Miami and they also have a stretch during the season with four road games in five matchups. The team has Louisville and Virginia in that stretch and that will be a good test for the team as they move along this season. Duke also has two matchups with North Carolina and Syracuse over the final month of the season and those will be very anticipated games on both sides in the conference. Duke has Quinn Cook now leading the team in scoring and Okafor is right there and they have a very talented roster coming back and could make a deep run in March.
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