Currently boasting an eight-game win streak, the Duke men’s basketball team will look for another big victory to start the week as they host the Pittsburgh Panthers on Tuesday. According to one NCAA reporter, it’s one of the best games of the week.
NCAA basketball analyst Andy Katz posted his weekly top-10 games of the week. Pittsburgh at Duke fell at No. 3, only behind the Tennessee Volunteers at Florida Gators and the Kentucky Wildcats at Mississippi State Bulldogs.
The Panthers come to Durham as one of three remaining ACC teams without a loss in conference play, joining Duke and the Clemson Tigers. They boast a 12-2 record with three ACC wins, and similar to the Blue Devils, they enter the game on a winning streak, albeit one only five games long.
Pittsburgh is ranked No. 22 in the KenPom rankings, second behind only Duke among conference teams, and the Panthers have notched big wins over teams like the West Virginia Mountaineers and LSU Tigers. If there’s a case to be made that a team can challenge the Blue Devils in the ACC, the Panthers have the strongest one. It just might go up in smoke on Tuesday night.
The game is set to tip-off at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time and will be played on ESPN.