Bracket Watch: Duke's Path to the Overall No. 1 Just Got Thornier

The college basketball world, really the entire basketball world at large, is holding its collective breath, waiting to see how serious Zion Williamson’s knee injury is, and what the presumptive National Player of the Year and first overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft will do over the next six weeks. That’s true of the SI.com Bracket Watch Committee, as well.

North Carolina ended up waxing Duke, 88–72, on its home floor Wednesday, though the result was but a footnote after Williamson left the game within the first minute after a bizarre shoe mishap resulted in a sprained knee. For now, we’re keeping Duke not only on the top line, but atop the entire field as our No. 1 overall seed. Depending…