Duke is such a well balanced team on both sides of the ball and is on an elite level with talent like Cooper Flagg that they should be too much for this Alabama team in a short turnaround spot. Alabama is just 4-4 ATS in all tournament games this season and 1-2 ATS when playing their second game in three days. Duke is such an experienced team they have covered their last seven games. Duke also won their only meeting in 2013 by 10 points and has the 5th best defense in the nation going for them. This team is formidable like past Duke teams and they should win and get the cover too as Alabama struggles to make stops against very good defensive teams like they did with Florida twice, and will now have similar issues with Duke's defense.

Best bet: lay the points with Duke.