Duke vs. Utah, NCAA Tournament 2015: Time, TV schedule and live stream

The Duke Blue Devils have breezed through the 2015 NCAA Tournament so far. Meeting No. 5 Utah in the Sweet 16 of the South Regional might be a bit harder for the region's No. 1 seed.

Jahlil Okafor is the key to the offense, scoring 23.5 points per game over his brief NCAA Tournament career, while making an incredible 21 of 27 shots from the field. Stopping him isn't easy: He's too smooth and adept a scorer to be troubled by a single defender, and when teams key on Duke's center, he just passes out to any of six shooters who have made better than 35 percent of their threes this year.

One of the few teams with a prayer of surviving while playing Okafor straight up is Utah, which has seven-footers Jakob Poeltl and Dallin Bachynski to throw at him. The Utes have a top-20 offense and a top-10 defense per KenPom, ranking No. 7 to Duke's No. 6 in Pythagorean rating. Their path to the Sweet 16 has also been more rugged, with games against top-flight mid-major Stephen F. Austin and Georgetown.

For the Utes to get to their first Elite Eight since the Keith Van Horn era, they will likely need a strong game from slashing scorer Delon Wright, and more than a few threes from sharpshooters Brandon Taylor and Jordan Loveridge. Wright is 21st nationally in Offensive Rating -- a measure of a player's contributions to his team's scoring -- but has made just 4 of 14 field goals in this tournament, doing most of his damage from the line where he's 15 for 18.

Player for player, it's hard to give Utah an edge at any position, even the combo guard spot that Wright plays, because of the likelihood that defensive stopper Justise Winslow will check him. And if Duke is hot, it will be difficult for Utah to advance; it would be hard for any team to beat Coach K's bunch if shots are falling, but Utah doesn't score consistently enough to withstand a barrage.