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Duke basketball: Bracketology bestows Blue Devils with good omen

As of this week's updates to the ESPN Bracketology with Joe Lunardi, the 2020-21 Duke basketball squad remains a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament. If that prediction proved accurate, then it would represent only the third time in history that the Blue Devils have been a No. 2 seed in the same year Indianapolis hosts a Final Four (2021 will mark the eighth Final Four in Indy altogether, all coming since 1980).

The first time Duke entered the Big Dance as a No. 2 seed with Indianapolis as the intended final destination was 1991, coinciding with the program's first of now-five NCAA crowns (the Blue Devils were a No.