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So Who’s Duke’s Fifth Starter Going To Be?

As you probably heard, Coach K plans to pay 6-10 Wendell Carter and 6-11 Marques Bolden together this fall.

That’s a bit different for Duke of course. UNC has longed preferred to play two big guys - Mitch Kupchak was paired with Tom LaGarde, JR Reid and Scott Williams played together and last year UNC had Kennedy Meeks and Brice Johnson.

There are plenty of examples over there but at Duke, it’s relatively uncommon, particularly in the Krzyzewski era.

Duke did pair Mason Plumlee and Ryan Kelly a few years ago and ran Christian Laettner and Alaa Abdelnaby together for a year (interestingly, though both guys were nearly seven feet tall, 6-5 Robert Brickey was the main post player and defender).