The Duke Blue Devils fresh off a 97-68 win over Elon will have a quick turn around tonight when they host the Utah Valley Wolverines who are coming in after a tough 73-63 loss to the Kentucky Wildcats last night in Lexington. The Wolverines are led by former Kentucky great Mark Pope who was a member of their 1996 title team. The Wolverines are a veteran squad who competes in the Western Athletic Conference. They finished 17-17 last year in their maiden season in the WAC.
Here are the starters and key reserves.
6-4 Sr. Connor Toolson 11.9 points, 3.9 rebounds
6-2 Sr. Brandon Randolph 10.0 pts, 3.9 assists.
6-7 Jr. Kenneth Ogbe 10.6 pts, 2.5 rebs.
6-5 Soph Transfer Jake Toolson
7-0 RS Sr. Transfer Akola Manyang
6-8 Grad Sr. I. Neilsen 9.6 pts, 9.1 rebs.
6-2 Jr. Transfer B. Nakwaasah
Notes: The Wolverines assistant coach Chris Burgess is very familiar to Duke fans as he played here in 97-99 before tranfering and finishing at Utah in 2002. Utah Valley out rebounded Kentucky 39-38 last night. Coach K will be going for win number 1000 at Duke tonight. The game can be viewed on Watch ESPN on the ACC Network.
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