Playing Their Game Is Key // Duke Chances Diminish With Parks Hurting

CHARLOTTE, N.C. The past is the past for storied Duke this year.In the here and now looms Arkansas, the team coach Mike Krzyzewskiadmits will be "the best team we've faced all year."

And if the talented, skilled and favored Razorbacks weren'tenough, the Blue Devils could be relying on an injured Cherokee Parksat center.

So why does Nolan Richardson keep insisting his Hogs have yet toearn the hearts of the nation?

Perhaps because he remembers the encouragement and warning he gavehis team before the season started.

"You can beat any team in the nation," he told them. "And bythe same token, any team in the country can beat you."

But that task …