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As you probably know, SLAM Magazine did a feature on incoming Duke freshman Deron Rippey recently. Here’s the video that accompanies it. It’s pretty clear by now that his father, Deron Rippey Sr., is a huge part of his life in general, but a huge influence in his basketball development Deron Sr. played for ECU […]
We’re back with Episode 826. As Jason is in the early days of his vacation, Donald is joined by Scott Rich to discuss a couple of new additions to the Duke Men’s Basketball program. First, Duke has added KJ Conklin as a new assistant coach to replace Evan Bradds, who left this offseason to become […]
Duke has a tremendous freshman class coming again, and Cameron Williams, Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje, Deron Rippey, and Bryson Howard are getting most of the attention. Maxime Meyer is getting less, but you shouldn’t overlook his potential. Take a look at this video, and you’ll see the outlines of a promising player. He can work around […]
In a recent interview on The Pivot podcast, Kenny Smith shared a story about the UNC-Duke rivalry that included an HBCU twist. In the interview, Smith spoke about how both UNC and Duke used to get their haircuts at North Carolina Central, which was the battleground of the legendary basketball rivalry. View this post on Instagram […] The post Kenny Smith shares Michael Jordan, Duke-UNC rivalry story with HBCU twist appeared first on ClutchPoints .
We may have jumped the gun on Milan Momcilovic to Louisville. There are multiple posts online saying he has committed, but there is nothing official to back that up. Here is a list of ACC high school recruits, and some international signees too. BOSTON COLLEGE OUT IN CAL OUT IN CLEMSON OUT IN DUKE OUT […]
We were poking around the Web Sunday, and we looked up Phil Henderson after seeing the Duke-Arkansas Final Four game from 1991. Henderson of course died young of a heart attack in 2013. He was just 44. That reminded us of the sad story of Tom Emma, who was a Bill Foster recruit who helped […]
The Duke-UNC rivalry, like any rivalry, has its ups and downs, but the ups are really something. Take 1961, when Art Heyman brawled with most of UNC’s team, including then-coach Frank McGuire, who Heyman gleefully claimed he hit in the family jewels (Heyman said that years later, he ran into McGuire, who said, “It still […]
We don’t know much about Maxime Meyer and his family, or Nick Arnold’s either, but Duke’s other four recruits have something in common: Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje, Cameron Williams, Bryson Howard, and Deron Rippey Jr. all have fathers who have a background in basketball. And all of them have helped mold their sons into prominent prospects. […]
Jay Bilas spoke to BFSN.com, and had thoughts about a lot of things, including the job that Jon Scheyer has done at Duke and how his next team is looking. Here’s what he said about Duke: “Jon Scheyer has done an amazing job at Duke. In the four years he’s been head coach, I mean, […]
It’s amazing that the 1992 Duke-Kentucky Elite Eight game is still talked about, but it was a phenomenal contest. Obviously, what people remember is Christian Laettner’s astonishing winning shot. It’s become legend, and rightly so. The whole play was incredible, from Grant Hill’s long, looping pass to Laettner, to his presence of mind to fake […]
The ACC released the 2026-27 conference opponents on Thursday, and the first thing you realize is this: the unbalanced schedule sucks, has always sucked, and always will suck. One way you can tell is this: we understand that this is the first time ever that neither Duke nor UNC will play NC State in Raleigh. […]
College basketball’s updated Top 25 after the NBA Draft deadline features Illinois at No. 1, major questions for Kentucky, and huge rises for Florida, Duke, and Vanderbilt.
The ACC’s newly released conference matchups may have created a nightmare scenario for Duke heading into the 2026-27 college basketball season.
The ACC revealed Thursday morning every team’s opponents for the 2026-27 men’s basketball season. Here’s what Louisville will be working with this winter: Home: North Carolina, SMU, Duke, Miami, Cal, Stanford, Wake Forest, Clemson, Pitt. Away: North Carolina, SMU, Virginia, Florida State, Georgia Tech, NC State, Syracuse, Boston College, Virginia Tech. Not Playing: Notre Dame. […]
Who are your favorite Duke players of all time? How hard would it be to pick a guy, just one guy, at each of the five positions on the floor? The latest edition of the Duke Basketball Roundup dives into the question — pick your favorite Dukies (not best, favorite). But, before Jason and Donald […]
Possibly the best Coach K ad, and certainly the funniest, was one that he did for Bud Light that ran during the 1994 NCAA tournament. The basic gag was that this character saw three limo drivers at the airport with a sign that read Krzyzewski, which he naturally mispronounced. He asks if any of the […]
When you talk about the NCAA tournament and you say The Shot, everyone knows what you mean: you mean the dramatic overtime-buzzer beater that Christian Laettner hit to beat Kentucky in 1992. Even now, it’s a standard part of March Madness. Duke fans obviously see it with pride and warm fuzzies, but can you imagine […]
You might think that after getting traded in a somewhat humiliating fashion, that former Duke star Jared McCain might enjoy his success, and that he might want to rub Philadelphia’s nose in it a bit. That’s not his style, though. Check out what he says here about Philadelphia and the trade. Previously, he has said […]
Mike Krzyzewski has many gifts, but one that’s key to the rest is time management. During his time at Duke, Coach K has successfully managed careers in speaking, radio, the U.S. Olympic team, advising the NBA, and memorable commercials. You could never do that much if you didn’t have brilliant time management abilities. We thought […]
Jon Scheyer has had such a remarkable turn as a still-young head coach – remember, he’s just 38 – that his playing career tends to get overlooked, and that’s a shame, because Scheyer had a heck of a career at Duke. Scheyer finished just two points behind Gene Banks and Jason Williams as the 10th […]
Although we should stress that we haven’t seen anything official about this, there have been a lot of posts over the last 24 hours or so suggesting that Duke and Kansas will have an exhibition game in Allen Fieldhouse this fall. And the following year, that favor will reportedly be returned with a trip to […]
When Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje announced for Duke recently, it developed very quickly, but obviously, it was great news for Duke. Still just 16, Boumtje Boumtje is a bit of an unknown quality, but performances like this are helping to bring his game into focus. It’s not just that he can take the ball to the […]
As you probably have heard, Duke will be visiting Kansas this fall for an exhibition game. This program has been playing basketball for 120 years, and has been to Lawrence exactly once, in 1988. To give that some perspective, in 1988, Mike Krzyzewski had taken Duke to one Final Four. There was no obvious indication […]
At a certain point during Duke’s rise to iconic status during the Mike Krzyzewski era, the university began to consider a new arena. They even had a location picked out: up the hill on what is now Coach K Highway, near the 15/501-147 ramp, if memory serves. They had to consider it, but in the […]
If you haven’t been following Quinn Cook on X, he’s been teasing something for the last several days, and now we know what it is. Check this out: My big brother @NdotSmitty and I are doing “THE BROTHERS CHAT” in Durham, NC with all the Duke fans that are able to attend on Thursday May […]