Jason

You know, Christmas, New Year's time was not great for Duke, but especially that trip to California.

I think this team is doing, I know you mentioned rust and taking the, you know, the week off.

I don't know.

I saw an interview with John Shire, you know, from the, from

the other day when he was doing the ACC coaches teleconference.

And he said it's good for his team to have a few days off to really recapture after that long, long trip out to California.

The guys get to kind of reset a little bit and really work on some things.

I think it's different.

This is different from like a Christmas break or an exam break where they do step back from basketball a little bit.

I don't think they're stepping back from basketball this week.

So I'm hopeful that that rust will not be an issue.

Look, ACC is tough no matter what.

We saw Clemson, which was undefeated in the ACC, just lost to NC State last night.

Or actually, when you're hearing this, it may be two nights ago, but in terms of us recording, it was just last night.

So never presume anything.

And they lost that game at home, by the way.

Clemson did.

Never presume anything in the ACC, but I feel pretty good that there's, you know, as we detailed, there are a lot of matchups in this game against Wake where I feel like things probably work out well for Duke, you know, in this one-on-one kind of matchup.

Yeah, well, and I hope the games happen because I don't want there to be snow and craziness and such.

It'd be better if everybody has their power and everybody's warm and all that other kind of stuff, so.