Duke’s No. 1 Ranking From The Athletic is Great, but Doesn’t Mean Everything

The college basketball season is just one week away, an exciting time for Duke fans and college basketball lovers around the world.

This is going to be an excellent season, and one Duke fans will look forward to for a long time.

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At least on paper, it seems safe to say Duke has a strong chance of winning a national title.

The hope is that we can talk about this Duke season for the rest of our lives and the Blue Devils end up winning it all, though it’s fair to say things aren’t easy in this era of college basketball.

Not that they ever were, but there’s a lot of parity right now, and while Duke’s team looks excellent on paper, that doesn’t guarantee wins in March Madness or tough ACC games.

But for now, we have to give Duke a lot of credit for what it’s going to look like. Jon Scheyer did an excellent job building this roster, and that’s something to say. According to The Athletic, Duke is the No. 1 team in America, and it’s almost tough to argue with unless we want to say Florida has the better roster.

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“Key to season: Chemistry. Duke has more depth than anyone in college basketball. It’s possible two top 25 recruits — Cameron Williams and Bryson Howard — ride the bench. Making all of Duke’s talent work cohesively can be a challenge. Jon Scheyer has done it very, very well so far, but the pecking order has been clear in the last few years with a superstar power forward.

“Maybe that’s the case this year with Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje, but he’s just 17 and John Blackwell averaged 19.1 points per game last year at Wisconsin. Plus, Patrick Ngongba II has been waiting his turn to be the guy. These are first-world problems and do not seem to be bothering the Blue Devils in the preseason,” CJ Moore of The Athletic wrote.

The one thing about Florida is that it has some continuity, so calling it a better team right now might not be that unfair.

However, if we’re going based on sheer talent, I don’t think there’s any better team in America than…

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