Sunday, January 25, 2015

NCAAB: Sunday's play

Play: Duke -7 -105

Time: 2 p.m. ET

Reasoning: D'Angelo Harrison, who is by far the best all-around player for St. John's and its leading scorer at 19.5 ppg, is slowed with a calf injury. The Blue Devils (16-2) are coming off of consecutive victories (at Louisville and vs. Pittsburgh) in which they played mostly a 2-3 zone. In doing so they held those two opponents to 52 and 65 points, respectively, and a combined 7-of-35 shooting mark on threes. Duke averages 81.8 ppg. It shoots and makes a ton of threes and it gets to the foul line. The Blue Devils’ starting backcourt (Quinn Cook and Tyus Jones) is a combined 60-of-64 from the line over the last nine contests. Duke is outrebounding opponents by 7.1 per game and it averages 11.1 offensive boards. The Red Storm has been outrebounded by 8.6 per game over its last five. Blue Devils freshman Jahlil Okafor (18.6 ppg) ranks second in the country in field-goal percentage (67.0%).

Record: 255-194-9 (56.8%)
Bankroll: +154.19%  




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