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After Duke’s fallout with previous quarterback Darian Mensah, who entered the portal at the last minute, Manny Diaz and company were in a real bind. Suing Mensah for breach of contract was probably critical as college sports moves to a pay-for-play world. Contract law is contract law and Duke appears to have a pretty good […]
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Weather update – the game will be played as scheduled. Duke’s road victory over Louisville comes with an unfortunate asterisk: the Cardinals’ best player, freshman Mikel Brown Jr., was inactive. In fact, Brown had missed all of Louisville’s ACC action before playing in their win Saturday over Virginia Tech. Brown certainly performed like a player […]
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Date 1/26 || Time 7:00 || Venue Cameron Indoor Stadium || Video ESPN Duke and Louisville are scheduled to play Monday night but that’s not guaranteed given the weather in the Triangle and Louisville, among other locales. Nashville: we feel for you! Update – the game is definitely on. As of this writing, there is […]
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With only one game on the schedule, a convincing win over Wake Forest at home over the weekend, Duke did little to improve its own resume this week. Yet, this may be the week that cemented the Blue Devils’ status as a team that “controls its own destiny” for a No.1. seed in the NCAA […]
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College basketball was quite different in 1988. The Age of Duke was just a few years old and no one understood that it was an historical epoch. Duke hadn’t even won a national championship at that point. And the old Big East was a monster. Georgetown and Villanova had won national championships. St. John’s was […]
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Duke absolutely dominated on the boards and in the paint at they thrashed Wake Forest by 21 points, 90-69 to remain undefeated in the ACC. The #1 Duke podcast around, the Duke Basketball Roundup, has a complete breakdown of all the numbers and the vibes from this contest on Episode 790, with special shout-outs to […]
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Bobby Hurley is not doing well at Arizona State. The Duke legend has definitely had his moments at ASU but things have not gone very well lately. After a loss to West Virginia, Hurley was more honest than most coaches are even after they are out of a job. Hurley surely didn’t hold back, saying […]
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In Saturday’s ACC Action, SMU survived Florida State, barely, 83-80, Clemson topped Georgia Tech 77-63, Louisville hammered Virginia Tech 85-71, NC State got by Pitt 81-72, Miami got back on track at Syracuse, 85-76, Notre Dame survived Boston College 68-64, Cal KO’d Stanford 78-66 and UNC took down Virginia, 85-80. The Wahoos started out great […]
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When you’re growing up and you have a love of basketball, at some point, when you’re playing by yourself, you have the dream: “three seconds left…Smith brings the ball up court…he fakes left, goes right, lets the ball go and…yesssssss! Smith hits the game winner! It’s all over! Smith came through in the clutch!” Everyone […]
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Duke’s ugly start to the season is firmly in the rear view now: after opening 3-6, the Blue Devils moved to 14-6 with a 95-41 dismantling of Pitt in Pittsburgh. This was pretty brutal from Pitt’s point of view. Duke forced 21 turnovers, had 48 points in the lane and got 50 rebounds including 16 […]
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With the intense storm bearing down on the Triangle and, well, everywhere else north of Florida (stop laughing, Floridians. You’ll hear from us during mosquito smacking season), there’s a strong chance we’ll lose power for some time. It’s impossible to know just how long we might be out, if it happens, but the recovery effort […]
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There was a bit of unexpected news during the Duke-Wake game on Saturday as a new roster addition has apparently been made: Malcolm Wilson, late of Queens, has transferred to Duke. A 7-0 center, Wilson was previously at Georgetown for three seasons and he’s been at Queens for two. Wilson has never been a stat […]
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Wake Forest played well for much of the first half, leading for the first 13:18, but Duke erupted in the last 6:42 to make it clear that there would be no upset in Cameron, on their way to a 90-69 win. In fact, Duke ripped off a 16-2 run that should capture any basketball fan’s […]
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Like mock NBA drafts, bracketology is basically pointless, at least this far out. Who knows what could happen between now and Selection Sunday? It’s ridiculous…but like mock drafts, it’s fun to think about bracketology. And you can get some basic ideas locked in, even if some of the finer points, or maybe reasoning of the […]
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Saturday is a busy day with Clemson at Georgia Tech, NC State off to Pitt, Miami jetting up to Lower Canada to take on Syracuse, Virginia Tech in an interesting matchup with Louisville, FSU saddling up to take on the SMU Mustangs, BC battling the Fighting Irish, Cal at Stanford for the West Coast nightcap […]
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Coach K is retired obviously but he still keeps up with the sport he dominated and does interviews fairly often to discuss the state of the game. In this appearance on Westwood One with Josh Graham, he talks about the death of amateurism, the need for transparency and alludes to one of his all-time concerns, […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Once in a while it’s fun to peruse the ACC stats to see what oddities and anomalies turn up. Take three-point shooting. Given the degree of difficulty, you would expect players to be better at converting two point field goal attempts than threes. Yet there are eight league regulars who’ve been more accurate through mid-January […]
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Much like Tuesday, we saw one blowout on Wednesday and two close games: UNC hammered Notre Dame 91-69, Boston College nipped Pitt 65-62 and Virginia Tech snuck past Syracuse on the road, 76-74. UNC led from wire to wire and while the Irish were close at 26-23, that was the end of that: UNC just […]
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We talk periodically about blocked shots and how so often they’re just wasted opportunities. Why? Because guys just throw the ball out of bounds and give it back to the other team. Granted, it’s fun to throw a shot into the fifth row and it projects a certain amount of power. All good fun. But […]
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Guess who is back? Jason has returned from Africa with tales of gorilla sightings and tea farming. But for his first episode back, the DBR Podcast doesn’t even mention the word “basketball” because the guys are all about the lawsuit Duke has filed to keep Darian Mensah from fleeing via the transfer portal. Luckily, in […]
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If you somehow haven’t heard by now, the weather this weekend is lining up for possibly one of the biggest winter storms in living memory for the Triangle, North Carolina and indeed much of the country but particularly the East Coast. Naturally, that will cause big problems at public events and around here, there aren’t […]
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In Tuesday’s ACC Action, NC State surprised Clemson on the road, 80-76 in overtime, Florida State pulled an impressive upset over Miami, 65-63 and SMU thumped Wake Forest, 91-79. Will Wade said State would need a big win to offset the home loss to Georgia Tech and they got it at Clemson, where the Tigers […]
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