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Sean Sculley’s racquet went flying over the fence of Ambler Tennis Stadium’s Court 6 Friday night as he clinched the biggest win of his rookie season.
After an impressive first-round performance, the Blue Devils took to the court at Stegeman Coliseum and shocked the hosts with a blowout win.
The Tobacco Road foes took to the courts Saturday afternoon in Durham for another battle of whose blue is better in one of the biggest rivalries in college sports. And not only are the Tar Heels Duke’s biggest rival, but they also have William Blumberg, the No. 1 player in the country.
In their penultimate home game of the season, the Blue Devils hosted ninth-ranked Florida State and pulled off their highest-ranked ACC upset this season in the annual Play4Kay Contest, raising money for the Kay Yow Cancer Center.
With the Blue Devils playing three matches this weekend at the ITA Team Indoor Championship in Seattle, the team went into Sunday’s match with no victories to show for it. After getting swept on both Friday and Saturday, Duke was looking for a win to end the indoor season.
The Blue Devils looked to continue a 30-game regular-season home winning streak Sunday afternoon and snap a 13-game losing streak against perennial power Notre Dame, but they came up short once again.
An athlete’s career can end so suddenly with an injury, let alone back-to-back major injuries. Some never see the court again, and some return but never reach the same level of play as before.
For only the second time this season, redshirt senior Lexie Brown was shut out in the first half—first against No. 3 Louisville, and Sunday against unranked Virginia.
The Blue Devils took the court to welcome Winthrop to Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday afternoon, but there seemed to be something different as they made their way out of the locker room.
Seconds into Thursday's game, Lexie Brown drained a 3-pointer, and Cameron Indoor Stadium exploded. That was the start to an extraordinary game by the Duke graduate student, but she did not do it alone. Graduate student Rebecca Greenwell and senior Erin Mathias teamed up with Brown to create an formidable triple threat that took down No. 8 Ohio State 69-60.
It has been a week of firsts for the Blue Devils—their first appearance in the NCAA tournament since 2011, their first time seeded since 2006 and junior Max Moser and freshman Kristofer Garðarsson’s first goals this season in last weekend's victory.
With the preseason coming to a close, No. 12 Duke is set to play a tough schedule, and all eyes are on the Blue Devils—and their two graduate students in the backcourt—to see if they can make this one of the team’s most successful seasons since head coach Joanne P. McCallie arrived at Duke in 2007.
It was a big weekend for the Blue Devils, as they traveled to Charlotte for the 49ers Fall Invitational for their second-to-last fall tournament appearance.
The Blue Devils played their annual Blue-White scrimmage Sunday afternoon at Cameron Indoor Stadium, as the White Team topped the Blue Team 111-50 after featuring most of Duke’s veterans in the first half. Here are five of the biggest takeaways from the Blue Devils’ debut.
Duke co-hosted the ITA Carolina Regional this weekend along with N.C. State at the Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C., but came home without any championship hardware.
It was an all too familiar situation for Duke: down two goals and one man early in the first half. The last time the Blue Devils were in this situation against Wisconsin, they turned things around to get a win, but against Clemson, the nightmare just continued.
In the Blue Devils' second tournament of the season, they had trouble following up their record-breaking victory at the Jim West Challenge to open the year.
It would make sense to think that after 16 total shots and five of them on goal, the Blue Devils would find themselves on the scoreboard. But after 90 minutes of play Saturday night, that was not the case.
Everything went wrong for the Blue Devils in the first 25 minutes of Tuesday night’s game, but they rallied in their most memorable game of the season so far to avoid a second straight defeat.
