We like the Duke Blue Devils to defeat the Alabama Crimson Tide on Saturday at 8:49pm ET for a number of reasons. Here are some of the more important ones:

Duke is by far the best team that Alabama will have faced all tournament. It's offense and defense will cause Bame problems.

The Blue Devils have won 10 games in a row, including eight straight here in March.

They've also covered the spread in 10 of their L13 games this season.

Alabama did look really good last game, but didn't do so well against complete teams this season -- 0-2 vs Florida / 0-1 vs Tennessee / 1-1 vs Auburn.

The Crimson Tide have lost two of their L3 games as an underdog.

We're on Duke to win big in the Elite Eight.

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