Seth Davis took to the SI.com website to answer questions in his mail bag and one of them was “Do you think Kentucky is better than a fully healthy Duke team?”
Just by seeing Davis’ name and Duke in the same article you can already guess what he said.
It will be a lot easier to answer this question four weeks from now, but for the sake of this exercise, I will give a slight edge to the Blue Devils. The teams are pretty evenly matched when it comes to talent. Kentucky is the faster, more athletic team; Duke is more skilled. But the real advantage Duke would have is in experience. Four of Kentucky’s five leading scorers are freshmen; the fifth is a sophomore. Duke, by contrast, has two seniors and a junior among its top five scorers. Yes, that will change when the freshmen get healthy, but the Blue Devils have showed extraordinary mental toughness in the early going. They’ve also gained a lot of confidence while being so short-handed. So that’s my pick—for now, anyway.
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You probably didn’t need to click the article to know how that was going to go.
