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Latest Duke Chronicle Player Preview: Dame Sarr
Nick Arnold || Brock Davis || Maxime Meyer || Jacob Theodosiou || Sebastian Wilkins || Bryson Howard || Drew Scharnowski || Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje ||Cameron Williams || Deron Rippey || John Blackwell || Dame Sarr || Cayden Boozer || Caleb Foster || Pat Ngongba Duke has had some great defenders over the years. Think back: Tommy Amaker. Billy King. Grant Hill. Steve Wojciechowski. Chris Duhon. Tre Jones. And perhaps most of all, […]
Duke Football: North Carolina Game Preview
Rivalry Week has arrived. Duke (4-1, 1-1) versus North Carolina (3-2, 1-1) in the Battle for the Victory Bell on Saturday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. EDT at Wallace Wade Stadium. Television coverage will be provided by ESPN2. Duke opened as a 4.5-point favorite. Duke is coming off a 28-25 loss to Georgia Tech in Atlanta […]
YouTube Gold: Jay Bilas’s Duke Highlights
Jay Bilas is best known now as a universally respected broadcaster. A lot of people may not even know that 40 years ago, he was part of the class that helped boost Duke into the elite. When he was a freshman, along with Mark Alarie, David Henderson, Weldon Williams, and Johnny Dawkins, Bilas was a […]
DBR Podcast #858: Preseason Awards And Rankings Love Duke
Duke Men’s Basketball is favored to do well in the ACC and nationally. We discuss all the preseason accolades on Episode 858! The ACC preseason polls and awards are out, and Duke is expected to be #1 in the conference. On top of that, several players earned nods for All-ACC teams and awards. Donald and […]
Duke #1 In ACC Preseason Poll
No great surprise here, but Duke was voted the preseason favorite again, and not just the men’s team. The women’s team was also voted #1. For the men, here’s the expectation: For the women, it’s like this: It hadn’t really occurred to us, but our favorite stat of the Jon Scheyer era is this, as […]
How Kon Knueppel Came To Love Basketball
Kon Knueppel, as most of our readers probably know, comes from a serious basketball family. His mother and father played in college where both were their school’s all-time leading scorers, one uncle played briefly in the NBA, two uncles coach in college, all four brothers are promising prospects, and one cousin now plays for Illinois. […]
YouTube Gold: Dave Bing
Dave Bing is sort of a basketball version of Forrest Gump, only smarter. A native of Washington, D.C., Bing met Marvin Gaye playing basketball. Unable to keep up, Gaye sang on the sidelines. They remained friends for years. At Syracuse for a time, he roomed with Jim Boeheim and got to know law student Joe […]
Cameron Is The Definition Of Home-Court Advantage
We’re long past marveling at Duke’s home court dominance, which ultimately comes down to having superior teams guided by gifted coaches in an extraordinary, tradition-rich setting. But just because a particular attribute is enduringly exceptional doesn’t mean we should take it for granted. So, get this: Last season was the third in the past four […]
Is Cooper Flagg About To Go Into Takeover Mode?
Over at ESPN, Brian Windhorst has a column up that starts with this headline: “Why Cooper Flagg’s ascension is starting to feel inevitable.” Pretty solid hook there, and he’s right. Last year, Flagg surprised people with a very complete game. His biggest weakness was probably outside shooting, something he’s been working on over the summer. […]
Twitter Gold: Cam Boozer Slams One Home!
During the run-up to the NBA Draft, Arizona’s Tobe Awaka and Duke’s Cameron Boozer faced a similar issue: neither was thought to have much of a vertical leap. Awaka – 6-8 and 261 – registered a standing leap of 32.5 inches. For his part, Boozer – 6-9 and 253 – got 28.5 inches, which was […]
The Latest Duke Chronicle Player Preview: John Blackwell
Nick Arnold || Brock Davis || Maxime Meyer || Jacob Theodosiou || Sebastian Wilkins || Bryson Howard || Drew Scharnowski || Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje The latest Duke Chronicle player preview is of Wisconsin transfer John Blackwell. Blackwell chose Duke over UCLA, Illinois, and Louisville. At Wisconsin last season, he averaged 19.1 ppg, 5.1 rebounds, and 2.3 assists. He also shot 85.9 percent from the line, which is […]
After 19 Months Away, Kyrie Irving Returns To Basketball
The Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets took their Texas rivalry on the road to Asia for some preseason games, and one of the highlights was the return of Kyrie Irving. Irving missed 586 days after blowing out the ACL in his left knee, and he’s now 34, which means that his playing days are mostly […]
YouTube Gold: Pete Maravich Torches The Knicks
In his day, Pete Maravich was called a hot dog and a show-off, because no one in his era did the sorts of things that he could do. He had total control of the ball, and was essentially unstoppable, and people in his era didn’t know how to take him. At LSU, he averaged 44.2 […]
DBR Podcast # 857 – Argh In Atlanta, Duke Falls From The Unbeatens
The Devils went down to Georgia and came away with a frustrating loss on the football field. The DBR podcast gang breaks down the 28-25 game with the Yellowjackets that drops them from the ranks of the undefeated. Jason and Donald give full credit to Ga Tech for an outstanding game plan but also lament […]
Latest Duke Chronicle Player Preview: Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje
Nick Arnold || Brock Davis || Maxime Meyer || Jacob Theodosiou || Sebastian Wilkins || Bryson Howard || Drew Scharnowski We missed this on Saturday, but here is the latest Duke Chronicle Player Preview, this time featuring freshman JoJo Boumtje Boumtje. Boumtje Boumtje was out of the spotlight as an American teenager playing for FC Barcelona, but the basketball public caught on pretty quickly after […]
Latest Chronicle Player Preview: Cameron Williams
Nick Arnold || Brock Davis || Maxime Meyer || Jacob Theodosiou || Sebastian Wilkins || Bryson Howard || Drew Scharnowski We’ve been under the weather a bit and missed the last couple of Chronicle Player Previews, both of highly promising young big men. This one is of freshman Cameron Williams. Williams is a 7-0 tall player from Phoenix who, while still quite slim, has vast […]
YouTube Gold: Boumtje Boumtje vs. Belmont Highlights
After the Belmont game, a reporter asked Jon Scheyer if JoJo Boumtje Boumtje was a better shooter than he was. The competitor in coach Scheyer woke up, he smirked, and said no. Fair enough: Scheyer was a gifted offensive player who could really shoot. But someone should asked him the logical follow-up question: is Boumtje […]
Georgia Tech 28, Duke 25: Five Key Plays
Duke incurred a heartbreaking loss in Atlanta, 28-25, to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets when freshman kicker Gavin Strange missed a 33-yard field goal that would have forced overtime. The loss breaks an eight-game winning streak and drops Duke to 4-1 on the 2026 season. Georgia Tech has now beaten Duke six straight games. Play […]
Duke Recruiting: Colton Hiller Update
Looks like Colton Hiller’s recent visit to Duke went pretty well, with him saying it was “awesome,”which is pretty great to hear. Here is part of what he said: “It exceeded expectations. It was great, definitely, just getting down there and seeing what Duke is about and the brotherhood. It was awesome.” If you noticed, […]
Paolo Banchero Is Impressed With Cameron Boozer
On Wednesday, the Memphis Grizzlies, featuring Cameron Boozer, fresh off a sensational freshman year for Duke, took on the Orlando Magic. The star of the Magic is another member of the Brotherhood, Paolo Banchero, and after the game, he had this to say about Memphis’s prize rookie: “He looked pro ready, definitely composed. Thought he […]
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YouTube Gold: Duke-Texas A&M, 1987
After the 1986 run to the championship game, people developed a lot of respect for Mike Krzyzewski’s program. However, in 1987, it wasn’t at all clear that he could maintain his program at a high level. Coach K was replacing four starters and five seniors, in an era when you couldn’t just overhaul a team […]
DBR Podcast # 856 – Battering Belmont
We have gotten our first look at the 26-27 Blue Devils playing against someone other than themselves… and it was pretty fun. Duke ran away from a game Belmont team, winning by 40 points and topping the 100-point threshold. The DBR Podcast crew, Jason and Donald, break down everything they saw in the scrimmage. Duke’s […]
Best ACC Three-Point Defenses
Coaches say the darnedest things. In an era when paying players and other previously forbidden stratagems are openly countenanced in college basketball, well-traveled Cuonzo Martin, with tongue presumably planted firmly in cheek, suggested a strategy this past summer to “create an atmosphere” at Missouri State. To boost the school’s negligible student attendance at Springfield’s Great […]
YouTube Gold: Duke-Belmont Highlights
Duke’s exhibition win over Belmont had some really great highlights, most of which are in this video, along with the commentary by Ryan Kelly. There’s a lot of great stuff here, from JoJo Boumtje Boumtje’s threes and inside moves, to Dame Sarr’s drives. Sebastian Wilkins was a revelation. John Blackwell is as advertised, but a […]
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