Madness selection committee may have installed the Auburn Tigers as the No. 1 overall seed, but oddsmakers have the Duke Blue Devils favored to cut down the nets — even with Cooper Flagg’s injury status up in the air after hurting his ankle last week in the ACC tournament.

When Duke coach Jon Scheyer was unofficially handed the keys to the program by Mike Krzyzewski following his retirement announcement in 2021, the now 37-year-old former Blue Devils player got to work.