The best guard in the country carries the Davidson Wildcats on his wiry back into hostile territory tonight: Durham, North Carolina. (In all seriousness, that town is a dump.)

Stephen Curry, he of the 29-point-per-game scoring average, runs into a difficult matchup in Duke’s Gerald Henderson. The son of the former Celtic is criminally underused and underrated. Remember all those comparisons between he and UNC’s Wayne Ellington coming out of high school? What a joke.

Ellington can barely create his own shot, and he’s too in love with being a jump shooter. Henderson is a well-rounded player who we think is on the Tommy Amaker level defensively, but has more of an arsenal at the offensive end. (As fans of Curry, we’re hoping Henderson gets in foul trouble and Duke has to resort to putting Scheyer on Curry.)

The Blue Devils are 14-point favorites, but here’s incentive for Davidson fans to feel optimistic: Curry has scored in single digits only twice in his storied career. One time was this year, when Loyola doubled him all over the floor and he barely even shot the ball, winding up scoreless; the other was during his freshman year, in Cameron, when Duke mauled the Wildcats by 28 and Curry shot just 2-for-9 and finished with five points. Revenge? We’d love it.

Comparing Curry and Redick (The Chronicle)