Previewing Wake Forest vs. Duke
Tomorrow (Sunday) night at 7:30 Wake will take on the Duke Blue Devils in the Joel Coliseum. The game will be shown on FSN, but I hope to see as many of you as possible at the game.
I feel like this is a game we don't need to say that much about. Duke is obviously very very good, and if they play their best and Wake plays their best I doubt anyone would try to claim Wake would win. They bring a lot of talent and can shoot against anyone. They also play pretty good defense.
We could talk about how the refs are likely to be on Duke's side and how they'll get all the calls so that it will seem like Wake never even has a chance. These things may be true, but every team Duke plays has to deal with it and Wake will have to play through the refs to win this game. As tempting as it could end up being to blame the officials after this game, we all know, and the players all know, it will be an issue, so I'd prefer everyone to forget about that excuse right now. It's an asset Duke will have, just like their good shooting.
I could try to break down the game and talk in depth about what to expect and what Wake will have to do, but that seems like a pretty futile effort. Obviously Wake needs to play flawless basketball and have the emotional support of the home crowd to win this one. What might be more fun to talk about are things such as:
How many students will be at the Women's game Sunday afternoon so they can be on "the list" for the basketball game? For that matter, how many will be camping out tonight? My guess is that the first number will be pretty large and the second won't be insignificant.
How many Scheyer-faces will be seen/photographed during the game?
How many Duke fans will be sitting in the lower bowl? How many Wake fans whose seats are in the upper deck will complain?
How many more articles like this one will be written about how emotional it is to play Wake without having Skip Prosser on the bench?
I'm guessing there are more questions along these lines that could be asked, so leave them in the comments section. I will of course be blogging from the game so if you can't make it I'd love to have you join me here on Old Gold & Blog. Hopefully we'll have something fun to talk about afterwards.
