Duke will play Syracuse in its Thursday night ACC Tournament opener and at this point, there really are no secrets between conference teams.
Duke has played Syracuse without Tre Jone (mostly) and Zion Williamson (entirely).
Thursday’s game will be sans Marques Bolden and Syracuse may be without Tyus Battle, who has not played since taking a hard fall at Clemson. He didn’t play against Pitt on Wednesday night and he’s going to miss a few more days at a minimum.
Buddy Boeheim filled in for Battle and had a career night with 20.
Duke has said that Zion Williamson is expected back for the ACC Tournament and we hope that he is ready but haven’t heard anything definite yet.