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Although there’s certainly nothing official, Duke Coach Jon Scheyer now says that he is “hopeful” that center Patrick Ngongba can play Saturday. They’re going to have him practice Friday afternoon, and if he can handle that, he should play Saturday. Obviously there’s a lot to deal with between now and then, and the trainers and […]
Duke took care of Charleston today with relative ease, winning 81-64, behind 24 points from Toby Fournier. The Blue Devils did a lot of things right. They got rebounds (47-39), outscored Charleston in the lane, 44-20, and got a lot out of the bench (24 points, 12 rebounds and 5 assists). However, they fouled the […]
Duke will face TCU in round two of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday, and it won’t be an easy win. Of course, neither was Siena, but the two teams shouldn’t be confused. Siena significantly outplayed the Blue Devils in the first half of that game, but in the second, we saw the Blue Devils mostly […]
The Duke Blue Devils have advanced to the 2nd Round of the NCAA Tournament, and awaiting them are the Texas Christian Horned Frogs. We preview the matchup on DBR Bites #154. TCU has a stellar resume for a 9 seed, beating some top teams and hanging with some others. We talk about why they’ve been […]
The opening day of the NCAA Tournament – First Four aside, since those are basically play-in games – did not disappoint. First, Siena played magnificently against #1 seed Duke, shocking the Blue Devils in the first half and totally outperforming them until the second half, when the Blue Devils finally got going. Howard punched above […]
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Like a lot of Duke fans, watching UNC blow a 19-point second-half lead was surreal and frankly, we enjoyed it. We’re sure many of our Duke Blue brethren and cistern (old Southern joke, relax) did as well. It’s always fun to watch your rival fail. Until it isn’t. Say what? Well, this is what we’re […]
One of Charles Barkley’s best lines of all time was when he said, “you know things have changed when the best golfer is black and the best rapper is white,” referring to Tiger Woods and Eminem. You could also say that things have changed when High Point goes further in the NCAA tournament than UNC. […]
How is your heart rate? The Duke Basketball Roundup is here to talk you down off the ledge from a nerve-wracking opening NCAA tourney game against the 16-seeded Sienna Saints. It was a tale of two halves as Duke looked nothing like a top seed in the opening 20 but then found their way in […]
First: Hats off to Siena for a magnificent effort. It would be hard to be more impressed with what that team did. And second, hats off to Duke for getting things together after a disastrous first half to win, 71-65. This is about as high a compliment as we can give Siena after that first […]
Picking brackets is an annual humiliation, but we’ve put it off long enough. Let’s go get embarrassed! Well, sort of. We usually go round-by-round, because picking the whole thing is an exercise in futility. However, here are our Final Four picks: Duke, Houston, Arizona and Iowa State. We didn’t post our picks for the First […]
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NC State and Texas put on a highly entertaining game Tuesday before the Longhorns prevailed, 68-66. This came after Kenny Blakeney’s Howard nipped UMBC, 86-83. As noted previously, both Wolfpack coach Will Wade and Texas coach Sean Miller have expressed bewilderment at their teams and the inability to get everyone on the same page and […]
If you haven’t seen it, Carlos Boozer made an appearance on the Dan Patrick Show, and most of it, understandably, was about his sons, Cameron and Cayden, who are having terrific freshman seasons for Duke. He talked about several things, like staying out of their recruitment and “retiring” when he knew he wouldn’t be able […]
On the eve of the start of the NCAA Tournament for Duke comes big news… Evan Bradds, one of the brilliant assistant coaches on Scheyer’s squad, will be the next head coach at Belmont, one of the better mid-major programs in the country. Bradds was a star player at Belmont and the allure of heading […]
We didn’t see this coming, but it makes perfect sense: Duke assistant Evan Bradds is going to be the next coach at his alma mater, Belmont. Bradd is sort of a born lifer. The grandson of Ohio State great Gary Bradds, the younger Bradds attended Belmont,where he really excelled. After graduation, he worked for the […]
The Duke Basketball Roundup again welcomes underdog expert Jordan Brenner to the pod... and there has never been a better time to chat with him as we are on the verge of the NCAA Tournament. For 20 years. Jordan has been one of the definitive experts on picking upsets and bracket busters. Find out why he loves […]
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Date 3/19 || Time 2:50 || Venue Bon Secours Wellness Arena || Video CBS Update – Patrick Ngongba has not been ruled out for Thursday, but is “highly unlikely” to play Duke opens up NCAA tournament play on Thursday with the Siena Saints. As you probably know by now, former Syracuse star Gerry McNamara is […]
Kenny Blakeney graduated from Duke in 1995 and went into coaching. He was an assistant at James Madison, LaSalle, Delaware, Seton Hall, Delaware, Marshall, and then at Harvard for former Duke teammate Tommy Amaker. And then he got out and worked for Under Armour from 2011-2019. Blakeney worked a summer camp, if we remember correctly, […]
The First Four starts tonight, and this affects the ACC because NC State and SMU are both in Dayton. State plays tonight, and SMU on Wednesday. The Pack plays in the late game tonight (9:30), after Kenny Blakeney’s Howard takes on UMBC in the early game. We’ll take Howard there. Both State and Texas have […]
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Now that the field has been selected, we’re all starting to get some sense of the lay of the land. Here’s what we’ve learned so far. Houston may have gotten a major break. The #2 seed in the South, if they advance, they’ll be playing…in the Toyota Center. That’s in Houston. Specifically, it’s five miles […]
In some respects what they achieved was unique to the times and circumstances, yet in an essential sense entirely the same. And, in any sense, historic in a manner that cannot be minimized. Only Everett Case, whose uptempo NC State teams did more than any others to immediately establish the ACC as a basketball conference […]
Here’s the latest on Pat Ngongba, as Coach Jon Scheyer says he’s making progress. He talks about how analytics sees Ngongba, and what he has meant to Duke’s defense, especially inside. And he also says things are “very positive,” but he doesn’t want to risk a setback. It’s hard to know without more information, but […]