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Predicting Duke basketball target's upcoming final six

On Friday, O'Dea (Wash.) junior power forward Paolo Banchero made his Twitter followers aware of a "coming soon" top six. Naturally, a couple of questions immediately arise. Will the Duke basketball suitors survive the cut? If so, who will remain as competitors? Hmm, prediction time:

Other than struggling to leave off Arizona and Washington — the Wildcats are the latest to the race, and both his parents were Huskies — forecasting the schools for the 6-foot-9, 235-pound five-star feels like a straightforward task. Why? Well, the chatter surrounding a possible college pairing of Banchero and his buddy, Briarcrest Christian (Tenn.