The Duke Blue Devils will look to remain perfect this season. It will be another tall task for this Blue Devils team that is coming off a decent win earlier this week, but they will have to play way better than they did in that one if they want to stay unbeaten.
The Blue Devils will be playing a surging Texas Tech team, which could give them problems on both sides of the ball. One area Duke is going to have to play better is on defense. That was a problem in the first half of their last game.
This is going to be a game that is up and down, and Duke would like to control the ball and have some good possession. But they cannot do that if they do not play the way they know they can on the defensive side. They know that creating turnovers creates great offense and easy baskets. That sets them up well. Texas Tech comes in with an 8-3 record and is looking to get its best win of the season against this Duke team.
Duke Defense Needs to Step Up
“Through 11 games, the Red Raiders have been an offense-first group. They are scoring 83.6 points per game on 46.2 percent shooting overall and 37.6 percent from three, with 11.0 made threes per game. They have also paired that scoring with ball security, averaging 9.9 turnovers and 16.2 assists per game,” said John Watson of 247Sports…