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Where current Duke basketball players rank among nation’s best

Duke basketball forward Wendell Moore (Rob Kinnan-USA TODAY Sports)

Are experts underrating or overrating the forecasted Duke basketball stars?

It’s fair to say sophomore small forward Wendell Moore, sophomore stretch-four Matthew Hurt, and freshman combo forward Jalen Johnson are the only three players on the 2020-21 Duke basketball roster who have proven worthy to be among the current “best players at playing college basketball” that CBS Sports put out this week.

OK, so some might say Duke’s national ranking of No. 9 in the initial AP Top 25 is proof that one or two more Blue Devils should have made the top 101, which experts Matt Norlander, Gary Parrish, Kyle Boone, and David Cobb collectively decided upon, ranked, and analyzed.