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Duke beat Western Carolina handily Saturday afternoon – Duke was supposed to win handily and did, winning 95-54 – but there was a lot to like about this game, starting with effort. Duke played hard. There was no lack of effort from anyone. From the top of the roster to the bottom, the effort was […]
Tyrese Proctor, Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel and Sion James were all in action Friday night and there were some very positive results. Proctor had 17 points in 19 minutes against the Washington Wizards in Cleveland’s 148-114 laugher, hitting 5-6 and 2/3. In Dallas’s 118-104 loss to Memphis, Cooper Flagg had 12 points, six rebounds, two […]
In Friday night’s ACC Action, everyone won, meaning the only ACC loss so far was BC’s overtime bummer against FAU. On Friday, FSU whipped Alabama State 101-64, Wake Forest topped Morehead State 85-61, Virginia took out NCCU 81-62, Pitt beat Longwood 78-60, Notre Dame crushed Detroit Mercy 102-70, Gardner-Webb fell at Clemson 97-59, Georgia Tech […]
David Robinson was one of the most unusual stories in the history of college basketball. Although highly intelligent, he was a very late bloomer. His college coach at Navy, Paul Evans, recruited him because his shoe size suggested he might grow taller than 6-6, and at at that time, in the early to mid 1980’s, […]
Duke’s next opponent is Western Carolina, and there’s just not a lot to go on right now when it comes to the Catamounts. WCU opened against Cincinnati and lost, 94-63. Wes Miller is an adequate coach, but the Bearcats aren’t exactly in a golden era. Duke is going to be heavily favored, but the one […]
In Thursday’s ACC Action, Louisville beat Jackson State 106-70, BC conquered the Citadel 76-47, Miami knocked of Bethune-Cookman 101-61, SMU got by Texas A&M-Corpus Christ 69-58 and Cal survived Wright State 77-67. Louisville was ridiculous in its opener against South Carolina State and while it wasn’t as dominant in this one, it was pretty impressive. […]
There was a lot to like in Duke’s in over Texas: Cam Boozer’s second half-surge comes to mind, as does Isaiah Evans’ obvious maturation and Caleb Foster’s very notable defense. In fact, the team defense in general was really, really good. Nik Khamenia’s hard-nosed play off the bench was as well and seeing Maliq Brown […]
Whether you know what a Catamount is or not, you always need to respect your opponent. That’s why the Duke Basketball Roundup takes time before every single Duke basketball game to preview the team coming up next on the calendar. But, before Jason and Donald get to their lookahead at Western Carolina, they welcome longtime […]
Duke (5-3, 4-1) travels for the second week in a row to take on the University of Connecticut (6-3) in the last non-conference game of the regular season. With a win, the Blue Devils would secure bowl game eligibility. Kick-off is at 3:30 pm EST with TV coverage provided by CBSSN. Duke is favored by […]
American immigration policy has grown much stricter, but it doesn’t appear the ACC is much affected. The conference has 45 players from 30 countries (not counting the US), an average of 1.5 per squad, according to 2025-26 opening rosters. Nine of those nations provided at least two foreign players. Georgia Tech has Senegalese teammates from […]
Five games on tap for Thursday and while we thought none of them were interesting…we stand corrected. First the likely blah. Jackson State plays at Louisville, The Citadel is at Boston College, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi visits SMU and Wright State visits Cal. Not to say none of these can’t possibly be good, but the one […]
Jay Bilas is familiar to college basketball fans but to Duke fans, he’s kind of family. He’s been a part of the Brotherhood since before there was a Brotherhood, having been one of Mike Krzyzewski’s earliest recruits at Duke. Bilas was part of the class of 1986 which was the foundational class of the modern […]
The Duke Blue Devils were able to surge in the second half to defeat the Texas Longhorns in the Dick Vitale Invitational, and we recap the first game of the season on Episode 765. Donald and Jason begin with the headlines from a game that was a tale of two halves in many respects. We […]
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No great surprise here, but in their respective openers, Florida State and Stanford both won. It’s no great surprise because FSU played Alcorn State and Stanford played Portland State and neither is a big challenge. And given the big turnover most teams have these days, it’s not like we know much about either team and […]
Larry Bird had many incredible moments during his legendary Boston Celtics career, but most of them came on offense. Bird was not only wildly gifted offensively, but he was arrogant in the best way. He would regularly tell people what he was going to do and then did it. He got bored one night and […]
Note – under the old publishing system, if you had two versions of a story open, they synced. Turns out that’s not the case under the new system and we saved the wrong version last night. Lesson learned.Here’s our (new) Duke-Texas story. After two superb exhibition performances, Cameron Boozer started slow in the first half […]
Fifteen ACC teams were in action on the first night of the 2025-26 college basketball season and things got interesting, particularly in the Triangle with new-look teams in Raleigh and Chapel Hill. First though, the scores: Every ACC team won except for BC. We can’t look at all the games but let’s focus on stuff […]
Maxine Raynaud came close. The 7-1 center from Paris led Stanford in scoring and rebounding for the past two seasons, finishing 2025 as the ACC leader in rebounds (10.6) and as its second-best scorer (20.2) behind Notre Dame guard Markus Burton. A picture of versatility, Raynaud completed 67 threes, tied for 11th-best in the league. […]
Nate “Tiny” Archibald is somewhat overshadowed today but he was legitimately one of the greatest point guards in NBA history. After a rocky time in high school in Brooklyn, Archibald started college ball atArizona Western, a JUCO in Yuma, then transferred to UTEP the year after Texas Western won the 1966 NCAA championship. If that’s […]
The #7 ranked Duke women started the basketball season in the City of Lights but Baylor’s Taliah Scott racked up 24 to lead the #16 Bears to the 58-52 upset in Paris. Half of Scott’s points came in the 4th quarter as Baylor simply outplayed the Blue Devils down the stretch. Toby Fournier was the […]
Typically, we add links to stories as they become available and with Texas being the first game of the season, we’ve been adding links for a few days now. Some are better than others, obviously, but we’d like to commend one in particular. The Duke Chronicle tends to be a bit hit or miss with […]
The college basketball season opens on Monday night and most of the ACC is in action – but for the most part, it’s the lame openers everyone schedules. Let’s look. UNC hosts Central Arkansas, Charleston Southern is at Virginia Tech, Binghamton is in the Dome at Syracuse, Pitt welcomes the Penguins of Youngstown State, NC […]
Duke product Kon Knueppel continues to be hugely impressive in his rookie season in the NBA. On Sunday, he helped his Charlotte Hornets to a 126-103 win over the Utah Jazz. Knueppel played a team-high 35 minutes, scoring 24 points on 9-17/4-9. He also had six rebounds and five assists with no turnovers. His former […]
It’s hard to understate just how traumatic the 1972 loss to the USSR was for the US. Basketball was a game that the Americans had dominated in the Olympics since the first time it was part of the games in 1936. In fact, the US had never lost a single game prior to the loss […]