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Following a successful ACC/Big Ten Challenge at home, the Blue Devils next play at Madison Square Garden for the Jimmy V Classic. Before Duke takes on Iowa Tuesday night, the Blue Zone looks at a player from both teams capable of leading their squad to victory:
One of the sporting world’s greatest truths, as stated by American soccer star Alex Morgan is that “winning and losing isn’t everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome.” The Blue Devils, who closed their historic season Friday night with a 15-5-3 record, experienced that truth.
Just like the dark and the 33-degree temperature suggested at Koskinen Stadium, winter is coming. Cheers sounded from both the Blue Devils’ and visitors’ sides as Duke, donning uniforms white as ice, hosted the red-clad Gamecocks. Though no snow fell on the field Sunday, the Blue Devils were like ice as they put out a fiery South Carolina team, restricting almost all of its opportunities.
Before heading to Portland, Ore., later this week, the Blue Devils have a matchup at home against Bellarmine Monday night. Ahead of the 8:30 p.m. tipoff, the Blue Zone provides you with our can't-miss prop bets:
Slow and steady wins the race, and that was certainly the case as Duke defeated Texas in the second round of the NCAA tournament with a late bang from junior Katie Groff, who found the back of the net with 2:18 remaining in regulation.
After the clock ticked down to zero, the scoreboard displaying a Duke victory, the Blue Devils headed into the locker room. One player set up her phone and played the team’s postgame song, “Seven Nation Army” by The White Stripes. Just like any other victory from that season, they screamed and jumped with excitement to celebrate as the iconic guitar riff played.
The NBA season is in full swing, and former Blue Devils have been leading their professional teams. The Blue Zone takes a look at their performances over the last week:
With Duke's season right around the corner, five of The Chronicle's beat writers predict all things Blue Devil basketball.
Along with the bright lights shining down on WakeMed Soccer Park Thursday night were the cries and yells illuminating yet another Duke-North Carolina game. As the fifth-seeded Blue Devils competed with the first-seeded Tar Heels in the ACC tournament semifinal, there was an ever-growing crowd that increased to more than 2,800 fans by the final whistle. Among the lively atmosphere were two high-energy teams displaying a cinematic performance on the field, both sides proving they were worthy of a ticket to the conference championship game.
Five years ago on a clement evening in Charleston, S.C., Duke and Virginia competed in a nail-biter decided just 1:27 into the second half. Duke forward Ella Stevens, served the ball, headed it past goalkeeper Laurel Ivory and into the net to start and end the night’s scoring. Due to an impenetrable Duke defense, the Blue Devils punched the ticket of their dreams to the ACC tournament finals.
As the clock struck 8 p.m. Thursday, the storyline of two teams, each with their own strengths and reasons for wanting the win—most notably seeding for the ACC tournament—looked to end their contest with one victor emerging. But the two teams experienced a fork in the road—a tie. And though the regular season ended in a way that neither side was likely hoping for, the lack of a winner means that the story of the 2022 Notre Dame and Duke teams may be just beginning.
In a year that has been full of storylines for the Blue Devils—a top-two ranking to begin the season, defeating the team they fell to at the conference tournament last fall, a tough 5-1 loss to Florida State—another came along Thursday night: a tie.
Five Duke golfers traveled to compete in the Jackson T. Stephens Cup, and as the Florida sun shone on the bright green Bermuda grass of the Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach, they were playing to win.
Sports are most often played with the intent of winning, but that isn’t always the case. For Duke women’s golf’s fall season, the team is, first and foremost, looking to improve so that the winning can happen when it counts—when they are in season.
October is finally here, and that means the Blue Devils will only face ACC opponents for the near future. In 2021, the conference season meant constant woes for the Blue Devils. The team continued its five-game conference losing streak from 2020 into the 2021 season with eight more losses.
Somebody cue the fireworks.
Before the Blue Devils opened their season Friday to a warm and sunny atmosphere and a crowd of more than 20,000 fans at Wallace Wade Stadium, there were no definitive expectations for what to look for in the team. Duke underwent considerable changes after a dry spell in its past few seasons. It won no conference games in 2021 and just one in 2020. Across the two seasons, the Blue Devils tallied just five wins. They were simply struggling to stay afloat as a challenger to any of the opponents they faced.
With the weather a breezy 74 degrees Fahrenheit and the sun still shining as kickoff commenced Sunday evening, the Blue Devils marched into TCU's Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium ready to set their momentous season back on an upward trend. With a TCU-record 3,648 fans in attendance and plenty more Horned Frog faithful clad in purple standing around the gates of the field, the pressure was on.
West Campus bus stop, 8:00 a.m.
Each of Duke's past two seasons has ended the same: a tough loss in the NCAA quarterfinals, tantalizingly close to a return to the College Cup. This season is not shaping up to be more of the same.