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Another week, another former Blue Devil on the move in the busy NBA. Austin Rivers was traded in a three-team deal to the Los Angeles Clippers, who are coached by Rivers' father Doc Rivers. That and more in this week's Duke in the NBA:
After two consecutive losses, perhaps a little reminder about the talent on the Blue Devil roster can help the team's confidence as it prepares for No. 6 Louisville.
The Blue Devils entered Tuesday's home tilt against Miami looking for improvements on the defensive end. They never came.
The Blue Devils went toe-to-toe with a top-15 opponent, but that wasn't enough to earn them a spot in the final AP Poll of the season.
After getting a wake-up call in their first two ACC road games, the Blue Devils will return home looking to bounce back.
The bell of the Blue Zone stock exchange has just rung again, meaning it's time for another taking a look at who is rising and falling with their performances for Blue Devil sports teams. Each week The Blue Zone will look at whose stock is on the rise and whose stock has taken a hit from the week in the world of Duke athletics.
Another week, another series of entertaining games in the ACC, which continues to look like one of the nation's most competitive and exciting leagues and now has just two teams unbeaten in conference play:
Upsets continue to shake up the rankings and conference standings across the country as the women's college basketball season wears on; a pair of top-five powerhouses fell this week:
In their second road conference game, the No. 2 Blue Devils once again got their opponent's best shot. Wednesday Duke responded and prevailed at Wake Forest, but the Blue Devils weren't as fortunate this time around. N.C. State stunned Duke 87-75 at PNC Arena in Raleigh Sunday afternoon to hand the Blue Devils their first loss of the season, making 10 of its 16 3-pointers and holding Duke to just 36.9 percent shooting for the game. The Blue Devils lost to the Wolfpack at the same venue for their first loss of the season two years ago and lost to Mercer on the same court in the NCAA tournament last season.
In their second consecutive road conference game, No. 2 Duke will travel to PNC Arena—where the Blue Devils lost to Mercer in the NCAA tournament last year and fell to N.C. State two years ago for their first loss of the season—to take on a hungry Wolfpack team. Tipoff is at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Three keys to a Duke notching its 15th straight win to open the season:
It wasn't pretty, but the Blue Devils will take it.
Last season, the Blue Devils played their last ACC road game at Lawrence Joel Coliseum against a hungry Wake Forest team and suffered a stunning 10-point loss—their seventh of the season and a sign of things to come in the NCAA tournament.
The bell of the Blue Zone stock exchange has just rung again, meaning it's time for another taking a look at who is rising and falling with their performances for Blue Devil sports teams. Each week The Blue Zone will look at whose stock is on the rise and whose stock has taken a hit from the week in the world of Duke athletics.
The start of conference play saw more unbeaten teams fall, leaving just three left around the country:
The start of conference play saw more unbeaten teams fall, leaving just three left around the country:
Rebecca Greenwell
With 2015 upon us, we take a look at how former Duke standouts have performed in the NBA as they usher in a new year:
Entering the season, Duke was expected go to 10 deep, playing all five scholarship players on its bench to spell its five starters throughout games.
Through 12 games, freshman center Jahlil Okafor averaged 18.8 points on 68.5 percent shooting, 8.8 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per contest and looked like a legitimate National Player of the Year candidate.
After a career day Saturday against Boston College in which he poured in 28 points, eight rebounds and four blocks, freshman center Jahlil Okafor revealed that he got a little extra motivation from Bucks rookie Jabari Parker.
