Duke Blue Devils men’s basketball vs. Kansas Jayhawks

A whopping eight of those top ten freshman are on rosters that will be featured in tomorrow night’s Champions Classic.

The last time Duke beat Kansas was in 2011 in Hawaii.

Krystkowiak is instead making four payments of $20,000 over four years. Basketball can only hope for a finish as riveting as this start to the season was.

This is the sixth Champions Classic installment.

Away from the college hoops royalty category, OR returns four of five starters from a team that rampaged through the Pac-12 after mid-January a year ago and to a No. 1 seed. Yet another season with 30-plus wins before the NCAA tournament and a No. 1 seed is very possible. That event includes two games in Sprint Center – Monday versus UAB (8:30 p.m. tip) and Tuesday against either Georgia or George Washington (6:30 or 9 p.m.).

Graham had made a three to knot it at 27 one possession after Jones hit a triple for Duke, and the back-and-forth was a welcome change after Kentucky had steamrolled Michigan State 69-48 in the first game of the doubleheader. The Spartans held their own against Arizona in the loss, and now they face a Kentucky team that has a 6-foot-10 stud in Adebayo and can go bigger if needed. As for the Aztecs, despite this being a near toss-up, it should rank as one of their most hard games on their regular-season schedule. Bronson Koenig scored 21 points to lead the Badgers. United Kingdom once again features a freshman-laden lineup with De’Aaron Fox, Malik Monk and Edrice Adebayo. Adebayo only played 15 minutes against Stephen F. Austin because he picked up four fouls – if United Kingdom has to use Derek Willis on Bridges, Michigan State fans might like their chances. This is most certainly true, as no team wants to start off the season 0-2.

We’ll keep you updated as more comes out about Allen’s status.

Tuesday Night will be a night full of great men’s college basketball action, with tons of ranked teams in action. The Duke-Kansas rivalry only dates back to 1985, but there’s always been a lot on the line. The teams have met in the Final Four three times.

Two big shots from the Duke’s guards late weren’t enough. That is exactly what it did, though the Blue Devils played without key pieces in Harry Giles, Marques Bolden and Jayson Tatum. Regardless of injuries, it doesn’t appear that Coach K is concerned about his team’s ability to win games.

“We are not the team we thought we were going to be at this time”, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

G Grayson Allen 6-5 Jr. No, the Blue Devils aren’t almost as deep as they hoped right now, but despite losing Brandon Ingram, Marshall Plumlee and Derryck Thornton, they still have a strong lineup. It’s clear, even with a 1-1 record, that Kansas has the right recipe of explosiveness, talent and toughness to contend for a national championship this season.

And the combination didn’t add up in its loss to Kansas. He also mixed in a steal, a blocked shot and six points. Not to worry, Kansas fans.

Kansas has now played two games. KU won that battle 38-29 against Duke, led by – are you ready for this? Princeton, UT-Arlington, UNC-Wilmington, Valparaiso, UAB, Siena, and Chattanooga all return teams that will have giant-killing potential should they win their conference’s automatic bids in early March.

Mason, who picked up his first foul in a series of back-to-back charge calls on him and Graham and his second on a dead-ball inbounds play by the Blue Devils, was forced to sit for five minutes of the first half.