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Date 1/24 || Time 12:00 || Venue Cameron Indoor Stadium || Video CW A huge winter storm is moving in to North Carolina soon and one of the first things it did was to change the time of the Duke-Wake Forest game Saturday: it’s now at 12:00 noon. What to expect from Wake Forest? Well, […]
From Duke Basketball Report | about 4 hours ago | 0 reads
In 1987, Duke was moving towards Blue Blood status and Wake Forest was in the Bob Staack era which unfortunately for the Deacons, didn’t end well. However, the Demon Deacons had a very dangerous weapon in Muggsy Bogues, the legendary 5-3 guard who would go on to a legendary 14-year NBA career. And in January […]
From Duke Basketball Report | about 7 hours ago | 0 reads
With plenty of ice (and maybe snow) on the way, Duke prepares to welcome the Wake Forest Demon Deacons to Cameron on Saturday and the Duke Basketball Roundup is here with a preview of what to expect. Wake’s attack begins with superstar soph Juke Harris but there is much more to know about the Deacs […]
From Duke Basketball Report | about 8 hours ago | 0 reads
updated on January 21st after Court released its Temporary Restraining Order At the eleventh hour of the transfer portal window, Mensah entered the portal with a ‘do not contact’ tag. It has been widely speculated, and Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald recently reported via a source, that Mensah intends to join the University of […]
From State of The U | 2 days ago | 0 reads
In 1986, Mike Krzyzewski took Duke to the Final Four for the first time since the 1978 team got there. Naturally, the immediate question after the championship game, which Duke narrowly lost to Louisville, was whether Duke was a flash in the pan. Was this a one-time thing, like it turned out to be for […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 2 days ago | 0 reads
When Mike Krzyzewski took the Duke job, it took him a little while to figure out how to recruit here. At first he swung for the fences and cast a wide net, most of whom he missed on. One of those was Chris Mullin, who chose St. John’s after a tremendous high school career first […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 4 days ago | 0 reads
Duke hammered the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 93-46 Sunday, and extended their winning streak to 10. One of the defining characteristics of Kara Lawson’s Duke program is a rugged defense and that was in play here: Duke forced 15 turnovers and held Georgia Tech to 3-15 on three point attempts (20%) and 16-58 overall (28%). […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 4 days ago | 0 reads
A while back, probably in 2009 if memory serves, we got a tour of Duke’s practice facility. It was really nice in so many ways, highly impressive. When we got to the court, there was a guy putting up shots we didn’t recognize at first, but it was Kyle Singler. He was radically thinner than […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 5 days ago | 0 reads
You know those slow starts we’ve seen from Duke this season? Didn’t happen at Stanford as Duke started hot and won, 80-50. Duke’s size and talent presented huge problems for the Cardinal, especially in the first half. Dame Sarr threw a blanket over precocious freshman Ebuka Okorie, limiting him to 7 points before the break. […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 6 days ago | 0 reads
We’ve reached the meat of conference play in college hoops, where the Final Four odds are beginning to take shape and evolve. But with over a month of regular season and conference tournament action still to come on the hardwood, the odds are far from settled. Let’s take a quick look at who the oddsmakers have as favorites and longshots to reach Indianapolis. 2025-26 Final Four Odds *Rob Kinnan-Imagn Images The battle for a spot in Indianapolis won’t officially tip off until...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | 7 days ago | 0 reads
Since Tuesday’s projection, the number of undefeated teams has dropped from five to three, with Iowa State and Vanderbilt falling for the first time this season. That’s led to a shakeup on the top line for today, with UConn and Duke replacing the Cyclones and Purdue as No. 1 seeds alongside No. 1 overall Arizona […]
From Blogging the Bracket | 7 days ago | 0 reads
Duke fans learned a lot of the Kon Knueppel story well before the rest of the country did. Grew up in Milwaukee in a basketball family, initially preferred gaming to hoops and learned to play in his father’s men’s league. Coming from a basketball family is part of the Duke profile. You don’t have to […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 7 days ago | 0 reads
Projecting the NCAA Tournament Bracket before March is a fool’s errand—a necessary caveat before embarking on any discussion of “bracketology.” And yet, projecting the bracket dominates the conversation amongst college basketball fans all year round (yes, there are even “Way Too Early” projected brackets in the offseason now!), so it’s impossible to ignore. These discussions […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 8 days ago | 0 reads
We’ll have a somewhat limited ACC Roundup today since the Duke-Cal game ended at around 1:00 A.M. Thanks, TV buddies! In Wednesday’s ACC Action, in the boring game, Pitt beat Georgia Tech 89-66, SMU got a miracle against Virginia Tech to win 77-76 and Stanford came back to shock UNC 95-90. We’ve been paying attention […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 8 days ago | 0 reads
The Duke-UNC rivalry has had some very intense moments over the years. The 1961 fight between Art Heyman and, well, everybody on the UNC bench was one. Heyman gleefully claimed that he hit Frank McGuire in the nuts and years later, he saw McGuire who told him, “it still hurts, Artie!” There was the Fred […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 9 days ago | 1 read
Date 1/14 || Time 11:00 || Venue Haas Pavilion || Video ACC Network Duke enters the ACC era of West Coast travel this week with a trip to the Bay Area to take on Cal and Stanford. Cal is first and some of y’all are gonna need a nap because this one starts at 11:00 […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 10 days ago | 0 reads
The next time a prominent coach with a long record of success decides to retire, pseudo-sages will lament the impossible task confronting his or her successor. That’s been an article of faith ever since Gene Bartow replaced John Wooden at UCLA for the 1975-76 season. Bartow was essentially driven from the job as a failure […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 10 days ago | 0 reads
Del Harris had a long career in coaching and has been around basketball for his entire life, so when he ventures an opinion, people tend to listen. And what he told The Sporting News about Duke product Cooper Flagg will have people talking. Here’s what he said: “Cooper is the best I’ve actually seen since […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 11 days ago | 0 reads
In 1987, Duke and Maryland, then an ACC team, were heading in opposite directions. Duke had made the championship game the previous season. It had lost four starters but was still a Top 15 team. The previous summer, the night of the NBA Draft, Maryland’s Len Bias had died of a cocaine overdose after going […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 11 days ago | 0 reads
Duke has had some amazing defenders over the years. On Saturday, we saw a brilliant first half by Dame Sarr. In our estimation, it was the best half of defense by a Duke player since Tre Jones personally dismantled Syracuse for the first 5:30 before he injured his shoulder. Seriously. We’ve never seen a guard […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 12 days ago | 0 reads
Duke’s 82-75 win over SMU was not a work of art by any means, but it was notable for one thing in particular, and that was Dame Sarr’s first half defense, which was magnificent. Sarr put on a defensive performance in that half which was as fine as any we’ve seen since Tre Young personally […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 13 days ago | 0 reads
The Florida State Seminoles (7-8, 0-2 ACC) host the NC State Wolfpack (11-5, 2-1 ACC) in ACC action at Donald L. Tucker Civic Center, starting at 12 p.m. ET on Saturday, January 10, 2026. On Saturday, in its last game, Florida State fell to Duke 91-87. With 22 points, Chauncey Wiggins was its high scorer. NC State was victorious in its previous game versus Boston College, 79-71, on Tuesday. Darrion Williams was its leading scorer with 22 points. When is Florida State vs. NC State and when ...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | 14 days ago | 1 read
Don’t get used to it. Or, to put it in more positive terms, enjoy it while you can. The statistical dimensions of what Cameron Boozer has achieved so far this season are seldom matched, certainly not on any squad with a variety of talented players. Even if it did happen with a Duke squad that […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 15 days ago | 0 reads
What is with Duke and comebacks in the Yum! Center? Duke’s comeback at Louisville in 2019 was shocking because it happened really fast. Duke was down 23 with 9:58 to play. That comeback was basically basketball blitzkrieg. It wasn’t quite that extreme here. Duke was down 47-38 at the half and finally tied the game […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 16 days ago | 0 reads
It’s really kind of amazing just how much Duke Basketball is now part of the overall sphere of basketball, if you’ll forgive the pun. In college, you see a number of coaches – Jeff Capel, Johnny Dawkins, Bobby Hurley, Greg Paulus and Nolan Smith come to mind. The NBA has executives like Elton Brand, Trajan […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 16 days ago | 0 reads