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On Monday night, No. 3-seed Duke hosts one last game inside Cameron Indoor Stadium this season, this one against No. 6-seed Colorado for the right to head to Seattle for the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16. With the stakes high as ever in Durham, The Chronicle's beat writers make their predictions.
On Saturday evening, Duke makes its return to the NCAA tournament with a Round of 64 matchup at home against No. 14-seed Iona. Before tipoff at 9:30 p.m., The Chronicle's beat writers predict whether the Blue Devils' season will stretch to Monday.
In early January, Duke sophomore guard Lee Volker was removed from the team’s active roster, following her “taking time away from the team for personal reasons,” as head coach Kara Lawson explained at the time. It now appears that Volker will not be rejoining that roster.
One of Duke head coach Kara Lawson’s biggest points of emphasis last season was the Blue Devils’ lack of discipline. As the in-conference losses piled up, the line that was repeated each time was that the team was simply playing without discipline, and you can’t win without discipline.
After five long months, we’ve finally made it to the most important time in the college basketball season: postseason awards.
On Sunday afternoon, plenty is at stake for Duke: A rivalry win, a conference title and a season undefeated within Cameron Indoor Stadium all hang in the balance. With North Carolina set to visit the Blue Devils at 12 p.m. Sunday for the regular-season finale, our beat writers make their predictions.
Before No. 11 Duke takes on No. 22 North Carolina at home Sunday, the Blue Zone takes a look at the previous contest between the two teams and previews the upcoming rematch:
Bases loaded, no outs. That was the situation facing Duke freshman Cassidy Curd as she made just the third appearance of her collegiate career. For the second time in three days, she was inheriting two runners in relief of Jala Wright against a top-20 opponent.
The NCAA women’s basketball tournament committee revealed their first rankings of the 2022-23 season, and an impressive season from the Blue Devils was significantly rewarded.
The Blue Devils’ 2022 season ended at the NCAA super regionals in Los Angeles at the hands of UCLA. Head coach Marissa Young and her “Team Six,” featuring two new assistant coaches in Sydney Romero and Olivia Watkins, enter this season ranked No. 15 and yearning to push one step further and clinch a trip to Oklahoma City. The departures of star pitcher Peyton St. George, outfielder Caroline Jacobsen and infielders Jameson Kavel and Kristina Foreman certainly left a massive hole in Duke’s roster, but the ninth-ranked recruiting class is heading into Durham hungry to continue developing the young program into a perennial powerhouse.
Despite it being one of the most frigid days of the year, despite what seemed like most of Durham congregating in K-Ville for College GameDay, despite their team playing the preseason fifth-place team in the ASUN, Blue Devil fans came out in full force for Duke’s season opener. And the Blue Devils did not disappoint.
Current starting center Kennedy Brown said in the preseason that she would be a Blue Devil for two seasons, but that did not stop Duke from bringing in even more firepower at the five for next year.
On Thursday night, 2,207 people crowded into Cameron Indoor Stadium to watch No. 16 Duke record a convincing 66-55 win against No. 12 Virginia Tech. But Cameron Indoor’s largest crowd of the season was not instigated by the matchup’s implications for the ACC regular-season title, or its significance in helping secure Durham as a host site in the NCAA tournament.
CHAPEL HILL—The biggest rivalry in college basketball is back in the women’s game.
With the wind of an 11-game winning streak in their sails, the 13th-ranked Blue Devils head behind enemy lines Thursday evening for an all-important ACC matchup at No. 17 North Carolina. Before the 8 p.m. tipoff, our beat writers make their predictions.
Over spring and summer 2021, Duke welcomed six veteran transfers into the program. Though three are currently regular rotation players, one has established themself as the best player on a top-15 team: Celeste Taylor.
As an era ended for Duke, there was still one more chance to make history.
Duke combo forward Lee Volker is no longer listed on the program’s active roster. At time of publication, her name was still listed on last year’s roster, and her 2021-22 profile page was still active.
And just like that, all of Duke’s most veteran players are gone.
Okay, now you can call her the greatest Duke women’s soccer player of all time.