In that case, the cagers are going to the right place.
Duke is led by possible All-American guard Johnny Dawkins. The 6-ft., 2-in. senior leads the team with 18.8 points per game and is the Blue Devil's second all-time scorer (wedged between a pair of NBA players, Gene Banks and Mike Gminski) and all-time assist leader.
Thirty-three of those career points came at the expense of the Crimson two years ago when the Washington, D.C., native single-handedly held off the cagers in an 89-86 Duke triumph.
Dawkins is essentially a lock to go in the first round of the NBA draft.
At the other guard spot is dependable junior Tommy Amaker, who's averaging 6.6 points and 6.8 assists per game. Amaker has better than a three-to-one assists-to-turnovers ratio.
A pair of high-scoring seniors start at forward for Duke: Mark Alarie and David Henderson.
The 6-ft., 8-in. Alarie is second on the team in scoring (16.6) and leads the team in field goal percentage, shooting at a 59 percent clip from the floor.
Six-ft., 5-in. Henderson is third on the team in scoring (14.3) and second in field goal percentage at 57.5 percent.
Last year's most highly recruited high school player in the country, 6-ft., 9-in. Danny Ferry, rounds out Duke's starting five.
Ferry, the younger brother of Harvard's third all-time leading scorer, Bob Ferry '85, has had a credible freshman year thus far, averaging nearly seven points per game and leading the team in rebounding.
Ironically, it was brother Bob who led the Crimson with 19 points in last year's Harvard-Duke contest, a game the Blue Devils won handily, 82-53.
Alarie led the hosts with 18 points and Dawkins chipped in 16 points, 11 assists, and six rebounds.
Current members of the Crimson netted a total of eight points that night.
The cagers will be led Monday by freshman Phillips, who leads the squad in scoring (12.6 ppg), field goal percentage (50.7), free throw percentage (89.7) and rebounds (5.8 per game).
As of yesterday, Roby had not finalized his starting five. During the recent Penn-Princeton journey, Roby inserted freshman forward Fred Schernecker into the starting line-up, replacing first Kyle Dodson and then Bill Mohler.
Roby declined to say who would be starting next to Phillips in the frontcourt.
Keith Webster (second in scoring with 11.7 ppg) and Captain Pat Smith will likely get the nod at the guard spots for Harvard.
"It would be great [to win the game]," Schernecker said. "If we get a good start and stay in the game, we have a chance. They put their pants on one leg at a time, too."
But perhaps a more realistic thought is voiced by forward Matt DeGreif who said, "Twenty years from now, I can tell my kid I took a shot over Johnny [Dawkins]."