In his latest preseason college basketball rankings (that's right, this isn't the first), Sports Illustrated's Luke Winn ranked Duke No. 4 in the country, a step-up from his last poll, in which the Blue Devils were ninth. The only thing they have done in the time between polls is lose Taylor King to Villanova, but Winn writes that his mea culpa had more to do with his reevaluation of the team than anything else.
"It's hard to argue that they're not as legitimate of a Final Four contender as a few of the teams that were slotted ahead of them," he writes. "Sophomore Kyle Singler and junior Gerald Henderson are the nation's best pair of wings, and while the backcourt duo of Greg Paulus and Jon Scheyer aren't exactly Derrick Rose and Chris Douglas-Roberts, they should score about 27 points per game combined and hit better than 40 percent of their threes, which isn't bad."
Is Duke correctly ranked at No. 4? Where should the Blue Devils be?
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