Sportswrap is your one-stop shop for everything Duke athletics, where we’ll recap how each of Duke’s sports currently in competition performed over the last week and give a brief look ahead. Here’s our recap for the week of Feb. 26-March 2.
Big home wins against Louisville and Miami helped Duke men’s basketball move up one spot in the latest AP poll to No. 9. The Blue Zone analyzes the movement around the nation.
For head coach Kara Lawson’s team, Sunday’s 63-59 loss at North Carolina is not worth panicking over. In fact, Duke once again showed its ability to hang tough and battle back, leaving it in good headspace for the postseason.
The best teams in college baseball are able to flush close losses and move forward. The Blue Devils did just that against Akron.
As the postseason approaches, hosts Ranjan Jindal and Caleb Dudley preview Duke men's and women's basketball's last games of the regular season.
What started off as a relatively easygoing weekend for No. 18 Duke with a 6-1 victory against Syracuse ended in two tiebreaks that showcased the Blue Devils’ newfound spirit, as they eventually took down the Eagles 6-1 as well.
The Blue Devils earned a 73-48 statement win against Virginia Saturday, and the Blue Zone is here to analyze the matchup.
No. 10 Duke men's basketball enters the final week of the regular season with a road contest at N.C. State, and the Blue Zone is here with three keys to victory for the Blue Devils.
In their first crack at conference opposition, No. 7 Duke proved more than up to the task against Syracuse, conceding zero runs across three games.
On Sunday in Koskinen Stadium, the top-ranked Blue Devils’ southern shine proved to be too much for its Ivy League visitors, as Duke weeded No. 15 Princeton to the sound of a 17-8 beatdown.
On a rainy Friday afternoon, Duke defeated Clemson in a narrow 4-3 match, decided by a grueling three-set battle on court 1. Two days later, the Blue Devils faced off against Georgia Tech, falling in a decisive 6-1 loss.
In the regular season finale, Duke was locked into another dogfight against rival North Carolina in Chapel Hill. However, the result was the opposite of the first matchup between the two squads, as North Carolina emerged with a 63-59 win to end the Blue Devils’ regular season on a sour note.
The famous pack-line defense which helped Virginia win a national championship in 2019 keeps teams on their toes while operating in a drowsy yet discombobulated game. But after Saturday night, Duke thinks it has reset the standard.
Duke headed north to Syracuse, N.Y., looking for its first conference win in Saturday’s match-up, but could not find an answer to the Orange onslaught. No. 4 Syracuse led the entire game and sent the Blue Devils home with an 15-8 loss to prolong their ACC slump.
In a sloppy game, No. 17 Penn overcame the rain and field conditions and utilized strong defending and quick transition offense to get the best of the top-ranked Blue Devils 14-12.
The Blue Devils head to Chapel Hill Sunday afternoon for a vital rivalry clash against North Carolina, looking for both a season sweep and a boost in seeding for the ACC tournament. The Chronicle's beat writers are here to offer their predictions of how Duke will fare.
It was easy for No. 10 Duke, which erased Virginia 73-48 in Saturday evening’s rematch of last season’s ACC title game.
Under the lights in Cameron Indoor Stadium for the second-to-last time this season, No. 10 Duke started out fast against Virginia and kept on the gas. With 20 minutes to play, the Blue Devils are all over the Cavaliers, leading 40-18.
Is one of Duke’s seemingly most important players truly a detriment to the team, or is there more to this story?
The Blue Devils will square off against third-place Virginia Saturday with ACC tournament seeding on the line. Ahead of the game, the Blue Zone brings you some can’t miss prop bets.
