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Date 12/2 || Time 7:30 || Venue Cameron Indoor Stadium || Video ESPN Duke’s opponent in the ACC/SEC Challenge is defending national champs Florida. Florida lost a fair amount from last year, not least of all Walter Clayton, who had a terrific season last year, including the most critical play of the national championship game […]
It’s almost time for the ACC/SEC Challenge and hopefully it’ll go better than last year’s disaster. Let’s put the matchups, times and networks out first and then we’ll take a look at them: Wednesday Syracuse had some moments in the Players Era Championship, taking Houston to overtime and giving Kansas a solid game. They didn’t […]
Honestly, Duke fans were probably confident that Kon Knueppel would do well in his rookie season in the NBA, but probably most of us figured he’d spend a year getting his feet wet and emerge as a fine player as his career develops. But this? Who expected this? Hype can always get out of hand, […]
Every so often, it’d be cool to be a fly on the wall. And right about now, it’d be fun to be a fly on the wall in various places around the ACC to hear what people are saying this morning. Stuff like this: “Bobby Joe, what the hell happened? We got Virginia in the […]
In Saturday’s ACC Action, just one game as attention begins to shift to the ACC/SEC Challenges. And in that one game, Georgia Tech fell to Drake, 84-74 in the Consolation game of the Emerald Coast Classic. Jalen Quinn had a great game as the former Loyola Rambler racked up 31 points and also passed out […]
Duke will play defending national champs Florida in the ACC/SEC Challenge and while we’ll get to that in ad day or two, we thought it was worth it to look at this article from CBS Sports and pass it on. The article is about how teams have adjusted their lineups, and one of the schools […]
As Duke fans know, Jared McCain was a leading candidate for Rookie of the Year last year until a knee injury finished his season. Then this season, he had a wrist injury that kept him out of action. Well, he’s back now, and it looks like he’s picking up where he left off. Wearing the […]
Duke defeated Wake Forest 49 – 32 to finish the regular season at 7 wins and 5 losses. For the second season in a row, Duke swept the Big Four competition as Head Coach Manny Diaz improved to 6-0 against North Carolina, N.C. State and Wake Forest. Duke played clean football this afternoon with zero […]
Most Duke fans watched the win over Arkansas and probably had some fairly universal reactions: 1) we won. Yay! 2) Day-um Boozer! and 3) take that Calipari. Old habits die hard. As much fun as it was though, it wasn’t perfect. In fact, there is a particular point of concern. As we all saw, Boozer […]
In Friday’s ACC Action, Virginia Tech fell to VCU, 86-68, Wake Forest held on against Northeastern 86-73, Virginia trumped Queens 94-69, Florida State got trashed by Texas A&M 95-59, Miami took out Georgetown 78-65, Stanford nipped Saint Louis 78-77 in thrilling fashion, Clemson vandalized Alabama A&M 92-56, DePaul handled Georgia Tech 75-61, SMU got by […]
Quick, somebody check the calendar. Is it March? No? Well it sure seemed like it was March at the Zoo Friday evening as Pitt pulled off a beautiful November buzzer beater. Down 66-64 to Ohio State with 3.9 to play, Pitt got the ball in to Damarco Minor. A 6-0 guard who spent two years […]
The Duke Basketball Roundup is breathing a huge sigh of relief after the Blue Devils took down a spirited and extremely talented Arkansas club in a Thanksgiving night matchup that was non-stop thrills. As Jason and Donald tell us, this was more than just the Cameron Boozer show as Duke’s Player of the Year candidate […]
Not surprisingly, the Boozer family showed up on Thanksgiving in the United Center to watch Cameron and Cayden compete against Arkansas. You may remember that Carlos played for the Bulls, but it probably didn’t occur to most of you (like it didn’t to us), that Cameron and Cayden had spent time in the United Center […]
Date 11/29 || Time 3:30 || Venue Wallace Wade || Time 3:30 Duke (6-5, 5-2) hosts Wake Forest (8-3, 4-3) on Saturday at 3:30 pm EST in the regular season finale. TV coverage provided on the ACC Network. The Blue Devils are currently favored by 1.5 points. Both teams are coming off victories in their […]
It’s difficult to imagine now just how thoroughly the UCLA Bruins dominated college basketball as TV emerged as a defining medium in American life, and court opportunity began to extend widely to players both Black and white. The Bruins’ hegemony emerged so long ago, Wake Forest’s Steve Forbes and Virginia Tech’s Mike Young, the ACC’s […]
In Thursday’s ACC Action, BYU whacked Miami 72-62, Michigan State smote UNC 74-58, Saint Mary’s got Virginia Tech 77-66 and Stanford took down Minnesota 72-68. Miami actually did pretty well. BYU, most would agree, is on a higher level than the ‘Canes. Yet they hung in there. Miami kept up with a much more talented […]
In the first half of Duke’s game against Arkansas Thanksgiving night, Cameron Boozer hit a level very few players hit. He was in total takeover mode and just crushed Arkansas. This video is of his first-half eruption. Boozer is a lot of things in a single player. On the one hand, he is athletically talented, […]
The season hasn’t gone brilliantly for Duke women so far. The Blue Devils have lost to Baylor, West Virginia, South Florida, South Carolina Wednesday night by 17 and now to UCLA on Thanksgiving, 89-59. Ashlon Jackson finished with 18 and Toby Fournier had 17 points and 1o rebounds. Duke shot just 27,3% on threes and […]
Have you wondered, like we have, how Cameron Boozer stacks up against Cooper Flagg? Well, we have the answer now: who cares? They’re both great! Boozer certainly was as Duke won a back-and-forth Thanksgiving affair in the Windy City over Arkansas, 80-71. It’s become a bit of an unfortunate trend but Duke started slow against […]
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Date 11/27 || Time 8:00 || Venue United Center || Video CBS Duke travels to Chicago this week for a Thanksgiving evening game against John Calipari’s Arkansas. It’s still kind of strange to write that. Cal had been at Kentucky for a long time and was a dominant presence in the sport, for a time […]
In Tuesday’s ACC Action, UNC topped St. Bonaventure 85-70, Cal surprised UCLA 80-72, NC State struggled but ultimately bucked Boise State 81-70, Notre Dame handled Rutgers 68-63, Kansas got Syracuse 71-60, FSU knocked out Cal State Bakersfield 89-59 and Wake Forest throttled Campbell, 99-51. UNC struggled in the first half, leading just 35-33 at the […]
Time does move on and things blend together. So while we all remember that Mike Krzyzewski won a lot of games (1,202) we forget the game where he became the all-time winningest coach with 903, passing his mentor, Bob Knight. That was against Michigan State in 2011 in Madison Square Garden. Win #1000 was also […]
Thanksgiving will be extra special for Duke fans this year as the Blue Devils play in prime time on CBS against the Arkansas Razorbacks of John Calipari. Coach Calalways has a talent-laden roster and this year is no exception with multiple players who figure to be in the lottery conversation when the NBA Draft rolls […]
The impression was likely made at the turn of this century, and has persisted despite fading relevance for going on a decade. Now an intimation of those better times may be at hand. We know that the number of games a team wins at the outset of a season isn’t particularly noteworthy – it’s more […]