Duke (25-3, 16-1) is organizing Florida State (16-12, 7-10) on Saturday evening (16-12, 7-10)

It is difficult to believe, but for the 2024-25 season there are less than three days of ducal basketball. Shortly after nine o'lock Eastern Time on Monday evening, the Blue Devils completed their home with a match-up against games Wake Forest.

The game against the demon deacons will be the second half of a quick turnaround that starts on Saturday duke Hosting State Florida For a tip from 7 p.m. in the Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The competition on Saturday evening against the Seminoles sees FSU head coach Leonard Hamilton After the long -time head coach had made his last trip to Durham, he announced that he would retire after the end of the season. In its last year, the State Florida achieved an overall grade of 16: 12 and a record of 7-10 league.

The Seminols come to Cameron, the losers of three of their last four games, including an 11 -point -loss at home at home North Carolina At the beginning of this week in a game that was close in the first 16 minutes, but North Carolina took a half -time lead with six points and never looked back.

The state of Florida allowed the Tar Heels to shoot over 55 percent from outside and 39 percent from the long -haul and to send visitors to the Freiwurflinie 31 times. And although they were much larger than UNC, the seminols lost the back battle with 35: 21.

The loss overshadowed a big night of overshadowed by Jamir Watkins the 26 points scored from the field and 9 out of 10 on the 7-of-12 shooting. The former VCU The player who plays his second season in a row for the Noles, in seven in a row and 23 of his last 24 games since November 15th in two figures in two figures. Isaiah Evans Who will most likely start for the injured Tyrese Proctor. Evans was able to record the match-up because the occasional bad difficulties of the first player, which is committed to the Watkins game, contains remarkable 7.2 fouls per 40 minutes.

Front Watkins is worn by the Junior Center Malique EwinA 6-foot 11 post, which took second place in the team in the goal and which was limited to North Carolina due to a foot injury and only scored four points during this time. In the two pre -pass games, Ewin scored an average of 22 points and seven rebounds against Miami and Clemson. In the season he is the leading rebounder of the team and moved in almost eight a night. Ewin is one of the better offensive rebounders of the nation and, at this end of the court alone, pulled 14.6 percent of his team's flours in this place. Its availability for the Duke game is considered a seasonal decision.

On the back, the FSU Chandler Jones and Daquan Davis will start, both of whom can handle the ball and distribute assists into Hamilton's system. Last season, Jackson achieved eight against the Blue Devils, while Davis, a 6-foot 1 newcomer, is not yet against the team against the Blue Devils.

On the wing in the second year Taylor Bol Bowen comes 6-foot-10 Vermont Who is actually the best three points shooter of the team and will play 44 percent of his attempts in the last 10 games.

At one point this season, the seminols were red and won seven out of eight games to start the season, but that was fooling gold. Apart from a 13 -point -loss Florida At home, none of the other opponents was classified in the top 150 teams in the country during this series. The bikes have started lately when Florida State lost at home at home at home Clemsonrecovered to take care of a bad Miami team before he lost eight or 11 against Lousiville and North Carolina last week.

Like several ACC teams, Florida State did not shoot very well from the outside and took the 283rd place in the country in three points. Team 121 in the country. And although it is the fourth highest team in the country (Duke is the first), the seminols are at best an average offensive vetage team (189.) and a bad defensive back -rib cader (253.), a big factor in the team's up and down in the season.

On the Duke page, the Blue Devils are preparing to play without Proctor who has suffered a bone blood against Miami. Duke Junior striker is also storming Maliq Brown It is also expected that the last two home games will continue to fail. In their absence, the expectation for head coaches is Jon Scheyer to start the 6-foot 7 van as a small striker of the team with the team Kon Knueppel Moving to the shooting guard next to Senior Guard Sion James. With Brown Still out, Duke will rely on the newcomer Patrick Ngongba and the Senior Combo Forward Mason Gillis Relief for Khaman Maluach with the Caleb Foster To continue complaints for the background depth.

The computers from Kenpom.com have Duke as 24 -point favorite against the seminols with a probability of winning of 99 percent. Assuming that the Blue Devils can achieve another victory, the team is only removed from a second perfect home record under the first year of the first year, Jon Scheyer.

Game information

Opponent: Seminoles in Florida State
Conference: ACC
Strip: lost 2
Playing time: 7:00 p.m. EST, Saturday, March 1st
Venue: Cameron Indoor Stadium
Clock: ESPN
Hearing: Blue Devil Sports Network from the IMG Learfield College (David Shumate and John Roth)
Sirius/XM: 81/81

Meet the opponent

Potential starter:

F Jamir Watkins (6-7, 210, R-Sr.)
F Taylor Bol Bowen (6-10, 205, Sun.)
C Malique Ewin (6-11, 230, Jr.)
G Chandler Jackson (6-5, 205, Jr.)
G Daquan Davis (6-1, 175, Fr.)

Key reserves:

F Jerry Deng (6-9, 220, Sun.)
G Justin Thomas (6-7, 185, Sr.)
F Alier Maluk (7-0, 218, Fr.)
G AJ Swinton (6-6, 200, Fr.)
G Bostyn Holt (6-7, 200, sr.)

Individual statistical managers:

Points: 18.4 (Watkins)
Rebonds: 7.8 (Ewin)
Assists: 2.8 (Davis)
FG PCT: .594 (Ewin)
3pt FG PCT: .393 (Bol-Bowen)
FT PCT: .825 (Davis)

Team statistical profile:

Points per game: 75.8
Rebounds per game: 34.7
Backcock margin: -0.4
Assists per game: 13.5
Sales per game: 12.4
FG PCT: .460
3pt PCT: .318
FT PCT: .715