West Virginia vs Duke
This is going to be a great basketball game and in reality should decide the National Title. West Virginia plays tough hard nosed defense and is very physical. Duke has experience and plays very tough defense as well. Both come from great conferences and are teams that won their conference tournaments.
While West VIrginia is missing one of their best players, I dont’ think he’ll make that big of a difference. When I watch Mazzulla play point guard I see a true leader out on the court who directs his team very well and gets them in their sets. He played very well against arguably the most talented team in the country and more than held his own. West Virginia is long, athletic and physical and will have the players to guard Singler, Scheyer and Smith.
On Duke’s end they have experienced players who are playing very well as a team right now. They are very streaky shooting the ball but it is rare that all 3 are off at the same time. Scheyer has shot the ball horribly lately and that will have to change as West virginia will play a little zone in the game. Kyle Singler is a matchup problem for most teams because he can play the post or a wing but in this game he’ll be guarded by Ebanks who can do the same thing. The wild card is Nolan Smith. If Smith comes in and penetrates and causes problems inside of 15 feet then Duke will win this game but if Smith struggles they are going to need someone like Zoubek to do some damage on offense.
I like West Virginia in this game despite the fact that I believe it will be a very close game that could come down to foul shots. West Virginia is not a great foul shooting team so that edge does go to Duke. We’ll see…
