By the end of the game, the Blue Devils were coasting to their 12th-straight victory, but the road to get there was by no means without its bumps. The absence of Maliq Brown was acutely felt in the frontcourt — Cooper Flagg,

Sam Vecenie of The Athletic: "One thing that I think has gone unsaid a bit: Jon Scheyer deserves a ton of credit for sticking to his guns and letting Cooper Flagg play through ear

The No. 3 Blue Devils and freshman phenom Cooper Flagg of Newport, Maine, took the court against the Eagles as a consensus 23.5-point favorite with an over/under betting line of 138.5.