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Next Up - Oral Roberts To Open The 2023 NCAA Tournament

Date 3/16 || Time 7:10 || Venue Amway Center || Video CBS

Duke opens NCAA play with Oral Roberts Thursday evening and it’s a trendy upset pick for some.

Why?

Mostly because Oral Roberts is (mostly) smallish, hits threes and likes to run, especially off of turnovers. But perhaps the best thing ORU going for it is something that Duke cannot have, at least not in the same way: experience. Coach Paul Mills says that his players have 24 games of NCAA experience between them and Duke has.