Even with the time off, totally agreed that this one should be relatively straightforward. Always hard to 100% count on that after a long layoff with a very young team, but between K, the experienced guys (notably Moore), and general blue-collar "defend and grind" approach of this team, I feel very little doubt about where our level of play will be after the first 5-10 minutes of this one.
The thing that I'm very interested in seeing is how springy our legs are, how our general conditioning looks, and whether any of the guys (especially Paolo) run into any of the cramping issues that have plagued us so far. It was totally reasonable for the team to run down a bit towards the end of the Ohio St game, and for the execution (especially on offense) to suffer for it. The question of how the team handles similarly intense travel/short-rest games going forward is the most pressing one for me: when fully healthy and fit, we can obviously play with/beat any team in the country, but will we have the legs to do so throughout the ACC tourney and the Big Dance? We're certainly not going to get an answer to that question tomorrow, but I'd love to see everybody still looking fresh by the end of the game, that's for sure!