also the refs were all over baylor...they couldnt buy a call on duke
That's crap that all the anti-duke people have been spewing all night. The foul situation was heavily in favor of Baylor until they started fouling to extend the game. Udoh got away with murder underneath the basket, grabbing and pushing people all over the place. The only reason he didn't get called was because for all his cheating he never actually got the ball so the refs said play on. There were missed calls on both sides, as there always are, but there was no apparent bias. The ref's didn't put the ball in the hoop or the rebounds in Duke hands. Both teams had one player foul out, and no other player's minutes were seriously affected by foul trouble.
The thing abut people who complain about officiating is that they never can fathom that it might be bad both ways. I thought the officiating in the UK/WVU game was atrocious, but it didn't favor either team. They just missed stuff. Believe it or not, there's no conspiracy, the refs really do call it like they see it and try to do it fairly. And by and large, they tend miss calls equally on either side of the floor.
As for the size issue, Duke play 3 guys 6'10" and taller, and has a reserve 6"10 in Ryan Kelly. Not to mention that Singler and Thomas are 6'8" and Scheyer is 6'5". They are longer than WVU at every position on the floor, and much longer on the bench. They are the better rebounding team, the better ball handling team and the better coached team. Duke may not have an answer for Butler, but WVU won't have an answer for Smith and Zoubek, who will be the difference in this game.
And if you think Bryant will be a factor at all you're kidding yourself. He sucks, plain and simple. He's never been good, and all this talk of him being hurt lately is just smoke and mirrors.
Look at his stats: he's averaging 2 points per game in his last 6 games before getting injured, and has an assist to turnover ratio of less than 1.5. He's tiny at 6'2" compared to the guys that will be defending him, and he shoots 37% from the field. He's a liability in this game. Better for him to sit on the bench and let someone else take his minutes. Mazzula played really well against UK, and nearly had a triple double against Duke his sophomore year. Huggins is a fool if he lets Bryant play anything more than a cursory role in this game. And Huggins is no fool.