One national expert has the Duke basketball squad barely inside his top 10, a few spots lower than the archrival Tar Heels.
begins the season in or near the top five. On the other hand, judging by recent projections from well-known college hoops experts, perhaps there's an equal chance that Duke opens its campaign at home against Maine on Nov. 4 with a double-digit ranking by its name.The ROTHSTEIN 45, which CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein updates daily to factor in any offseason moves, has the Blue Devils at No. 10, three spots below their Tobacco Road nemesis in No. 7 UNC.
Either way, given the string of so-called "down years" in the eyes of the national media, one concern is that neither Rothstein nor Borzello currently foresees any of the other 16 ACC teams tipping off the season among the top 25 in the country. Borzello doesn't even put one in his "next in line" five. And the closest any come to the top 25 in Rothstein's rankings are Clemson at No. 35, Wake Forest at No. 36, and Miami at No. 37.Matt Giles is the editor and publisher of FanNation's Blue Devil Country and All Tar Heels, covering the Duke Blue Devils and UNC Tar Heels on SI.com.
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