NCAA: No. 16 Mount St. Saint Mary VS No. 1 Duck

Raly – Transfer from the joy that comes with one tournament to the tournament for the NCAA tournament is a challenge that is dedicated to this time of the year.

Everyone has returned to zero — or they will go to zero this week, because the tournament is in and a handful team is already on the way home. Understanding the difficulty may be the best in this number: In the last 12 NCAA tournaments, the tournament was achieved by a team that has won the conference tournament five times.

That brings Duck into the equation. There is more unwanted feelings – in history, anyway – when six of the seven national champions are considered in the ACC, the tournament did not win the tournament.

So, how the blue devils — so they focused on a single goal and destination in this season — go through the party in Charlotte and find a rest-free button for this week?

“We have said that throughout the year, we haven’t talked about anything,” Gilles said. “And we didn’t do anything until we won the national championship. It’s so easy.

Well, then.

Not that this team has distanced itself from its intentions, but the silence is both innovation and appreciation. Each of the past two seasons, Duk has a talented-field ranking, resulting in 5- and 4-heads for this tournament, then the second round and the 8th elite, dear.

Now the blue devils have a ginger in a team embracing at a high level of expectations.

What do we know what to know here before the first round of Friday:

time: 2:50 pm

place: Lenovo Center, Ruley.

TV: TV: CBS.

the announcers: Ian Eagle (game play), Bill Rafteri and Grant Hill (auditors), Trisy Wolfsson (dune lines).

sequence; Last meeting: N/A, teams have never seen each other.

Winner will be the winner. In the second round, they will face the winner in the second round between the previous Friday game, with 8 seeds of Mississippi Stait and Baylor with nine seeds.

Records: Mount St. Mary 23-12; دوک 31-3

Stat for watching: 21.6%.

The ratio of changes in Mount St. Maria, the eighth worst in the country (according to Kenpom and through some Thursday games).

Duck is unsuccessful in forcing changes — Strange one of the bad aspects of his defense. The Blue Defenders’ Refund is 17.7 percent, which is still in the country’s top halves, but fades to other areas of Duck, which is 10 or 20 of the main defensive criteria.

But in this game, look for Dock to take advantage of the lack of security in Mount St. Mary and create some transfer strikers.

Matchup for watching: Mount Sant Mary Dollar Adefaya (No. 4) VS. Duke’s Cooper Flagg (No. 2).

Yes, obviously, look at the flag. You have the most six games left to do that while he is wearing Duck’s uniform. And look at how it moves on the leftk ankle.

But in this unit, the Flag is equivalent to a load of four people for climbers.

Adbayo (6-8, 210) can beat 3s and two of them in each game. But he is more than the big backbone, posting a great man, you don’t see a group of ACC (Ian Schiffelen in Climson is a good example for each other).

Duck often changes in defence that Flag may not be the one who guards Adibayo in the post, but at least he is going to start the goods against him. Adibayo scored 22 points and 22 points from the first four wins on Wednesday night.

Shakhawan for watching: moderate Cordila toxins (No. 14).

Playing in the first place of the NCAA tournament is a good time to equal your sporting sporting performances.

The Netherlands scored 22 goals against the United States, 10 out of 11 penalties. It was the fourth game of the season on at least 20 points, just the second game that didn’t go to extra time, even though.

Cordila is not a three-point threat—the 2 to 17 points in sporting life — but he was so influenced by an anti-American in order to look at the players of Duck.

A blue devil for watching: Wing Conople (No. 7).

Duk’s last game was the first time in 10 games that Knople didn’t have three points, and six times this season 0-Fer on three points.

Do you want to see something that shows the growth of the cotton throughout the season?

Cloves missed three points from the five games, with a total of 4.8 points. It was a 11-point game against Kansas, three six points (Oburn, George Mason and California), a goalless game against Boston College.

Knopel lost all five points that they received in the ACC against Louisville; It ended with 18 points and out of the 7 rakes in the arc was 6 beats and all six of their own freedom.

With eight penalties, three assists and two thefts, he helps Duck to the ACC title.

Kenpom predictions: Duck won 85-5

Injuries Report: If you haven’t heard — Cooper flagg good for going and the horizon is not close to positive for Maliq.

Mount Sant Mary Carmelo Pachekothe above threat is the 3 points. He was outside with a finger injury. Mountaineers are also expected to be without Terl Ard J R.an average of 10.9 points and 7.2 penalties per game. He hasn’t played since February

How is the loss of Duk: The sky is down?

This is strange. Duck has played worse for his teams this season than Mount Sant Mary. And you have to be good at some levels to reach the NCAA championship.

But Duk is also a much higher and dominant team in this unit. You feel that some of the wild shootings are needed to lose this game.

What does the DOK win? With one word, business.

To connect this along the road to the Gillis point, Duck has been locked in the same purpose this season. It is a team that never seemed to be stuck on the margins.

That must be translated into a big victory with some of the Stat class — return, change, shoot 3 points, to start — to start this tournament.