The Duke Blue Devils have once agains started off as one of the best teams in the nation and the school is ranked in the top 10 at number six heading into the next stretch on the schedule and on Sunday it will be Vermont at Cameron Indoor Arena and the game will be airing on ESPNU and streaming online from WatchESPN starting at 6:30 pm from North Carolina.
New freshman star Jabari Parker has been as good as advertised so far in the early goings and the Blue Devils have started the season 4-1 behind the play of Parker, who is leading the team in scoring and rebounding this season and he has already put his stamp on the team, as he set a record as just the second player to score 20 points in his first five games in a season. Parker has been great to start the season and he scored 21 points in the win over East Carolina and Rodney Hood has also been great, putting up 30 points in that game for Mike Krzyzewski's team and they currently have won over 100 straight games and home and it is unlikely that Vermont at 1-4 will be the team to snap it. Hood is coming in as a transfer and he can be the player to put the team over the top with Parker.
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Duke will play against Alabama on Wednesday at Madison Square Garden and the matchup for Vermont against the Blue Devils comes during a rare seven game roadie and this game will be nearly impossible to win and the team will just try and keep things close. Duke is coming off of nice win over East Carolina and after playing against Vermont they will have the Crimson Tide at MSG in a game that will be on at 9:30 pm and the team comes in as one of the highest scoring in the nation with 93 points per game in the early going and the team is shooting the lights out, ranking third in field goal percentage with 56 percent and heading into the schedule after Alabama are games against Michigan and then against UCLA as well.
The team has a tough conference schedule as usual and coach Krzyzewski has scheduled some good out of conference games as well and the team finishes the regular season with an anticipated home matchup against the North Carolina Tar Heels and that could be a game that finally snaps the streak. The Blue Devils have been one of the most efficient teams in the nation and it likely will be Parker and Kansas freshman Andrew Wiggins fighting for major awards when the season is all said and done and those two could end up being the top picks in the NBA draft come next year if they decide to be the latest one and done players.
