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Battling tired legs on the shortest turnaround of its ACC season, Duke used tough defense to build an early lead before Clemson surged to give the Blue Devils a scare. It was not enough, though, as Duke eked out a 64-62 victory.
The Blue Devils have begun their indoor season with several impressive performances, and added another record-setting finish to that list Saturday.
Down in a pivotal match and tied in another, it looked like Duke was going to miss the national indoor championships for the first time in nine years.
Winter weather limited how much Duke could practice this week, but did not prevent the Blue Devils from notching a top finish in their season-opener.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Defense and foul trouble were two primary areas of concern for the Blue Devils playing their first game without graduate student Amile Jefferson.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—With 13:15 remaining in the second half and the Blue Devils down two, Florida State’s Braian Angola-Rodas had the ball at the top of the key. The guard hesitated, then drove left to beat Duke’s Luke Kennard off the dribble and get into the paint.
With the regular season over and the playoffs beginning this weekend, a couple of former Blue Devils have begun their offseasons early, but another pair is still playing on.
With conference play beginning, the final week of 2016 saw several top-25 teams fall and trimmed the list of remaining unbeatens to three.
The Blue Devils encountered early adversity this year when freshmen Jayson Tatum and Marques Bolden joined Harry Giles on the sidelines for Duke's first eight games due to injuries.
With the end of 2016 quickly approaching, The Chronicle's sports department takes a look back at the biggest sports stories of the year. Each day, The Blue Zone will review a major game, event or storyline that helped shape the course of the year in Blue Devil athletics.
In a small physician’s office at Duke’s cancer clinic, Dr. Henry Friedman is looking through emails on his iPad. The lean 64-year-old with a scruffy gray beard and round spectacles is in his traditional daily garb—a white Duke hoodie, blue jeans and grey Brooks running shoes. Around him, other doctors and nurses gaze at MRI scans.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.—Duke entered its regular season finale fighting for a bowl bid and hoping for its first road win against Miami since the Hurricanes joined the ACC in 2004.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.—After playing flat and sluggish in last week’s blowout loss to Pittsburgh, the Blue Devils have showed a sense of urgency Saturday with their postseason hopes on the line.
PITTSBURGH—After coming back to beat then-No. 15 North Carolina last Thursday, Duke looked like it was still living in the past Saturday.
PITTSBURGH—As they have done in their last five games, the Blue Devils got off to a poor start and battled back. But this time, Duke has struggled to maintain their momentum, and enter the locker room facing a double-digit deficit.
A year ago, the Blue Devils entered their November meeting with Pittsburgh coming off a crushing 35-point blowout loss to North Carolina. Duke was in a funk at the time and wound up falling to the Panthers 31-13 for its third straight loss.
Eight games into the season, little has gone Duke’s way. Not only do the Blue Devils have their worst record up to this point in four years, they have also lost three of their four captains to season-ending injuries.
After a strong start to their season at the Virginia Tech quad meet last week, the Blue Devils continued their momentum against stiffer competition Saturday.
On most Saturdays, redshirt freshman Joe Giles-Harris and sophomore Ben Humphreys are the pulse of Duke’s defense.
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