The dances that never happened
(04/18/22 5:40am)
Coach K and I both missed our fair share of dances in the last couple of years.
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Coach K and I both missed our fair share of dances in the last couple of years.
The stakes have never been higher for No. 2-seed Duke and No. 8-seed North Carolina, with the two sides facing off Saturday in the Final Four in New Orleans for the first time in NCAA tournament history. With a spot in the national championship game on the line, here's who our beats predict will come out on top.
No. 2-seed Duke comes in as a four-point favorite in this Elite Eight matchup against No. 4-seed Arkansas in San Francisco. At the end of this one, the winner at Chase Center will come away with a spot in the Final Four in New Orleans and a chance at putting their team in the college basketball record books.
Duke will face off against Texas Tech at 9:30 p.m. at Chase Center in San Francisco, and given the way these two teams match up and the one-point spread in favor of the Red Raiders, all signs point to a nail-biter. Let's see who our beats pick to move on to the Elite Eight.
No. 2-seed Duke enters its Round of 32 matchup as 6.5-point a favorite but has a tough draw against No. 7-seed Michigan State. The Blue Devils last played the Spartans in the 2020-21 season and lost, and the last time these two squads met in the NCAA tournament, Michigan State came out on top. Let's take a look at who our beats think will be moving on to the Sweet Sixteen.
No. 2-seed Duke has its first game of the NCAA tournament Friday against No. 15-seed Cal State Fullerton. The Blue Devils come in as 18.5-point favorites leading up to their 7:10 p.m. tipoff against the Titans in Greenville, S.C.
Saturday is Coach K's final dance in Cameron Indoor Stadium. And it's against North Carolina. No further introduction.
How has the world changed since Coach K took over Duke men’s basketball?
Are you ready? Are you ready to watch a Duke game in Cameron Indoor Stadium without Mike Krzyzewski prowling the sidelines?
CHAPEL HILL—Most people expected the final matchup for Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski against North Carolina at the Dean E. Smith Center to be a close one. And it was—for about 10 seconds.
It's Duke against North Carolina. Coach K's last time in the Dean Dome. Hubert Davis' first time as head coach in the rivalry. Should we go on? As ESPN basketball analyst Jay Bilas says, this matchup always delivers, and our beats did their best at predicting the outcome of the first installment of this year's series. Saturday's game is set to tip off at 7 p.m. in Chapel Hill.
Since Mike Krzyzewski was hired in 1980, he has elevated the Duke-North Carolina rivalry to something approaching holiness. Every iteration of the rivalry attracts thousands of fans and let’s be honest, millions of dollars. Hundreds of Duke students sleep for months each year in a patch of grass bearing Krzyzewski’s name just for the chance to watch Coach K lead the Blue Devils against the team that lives 20 minutes away.
In many ways, the young men of the Duke men’s basketball team are just ordinary college students. They attend class, enjoy the fare at Duke’s West Union and even play video games like Fortnite during COVID lockdowns. (Head coach Mike Krzyzewski still calls it “Fourth Night,” but cut him some slack, he’s 74 years old.)
No. 6 Duke entered its Saturday matchup against Syracuse as a huge favorite but coming off of a rough overtime loss against unranked Florida State. A red-hot start has helped the Blue Devils accrue an early lead. The Orange have fought back, but Duke still holds a large, but not insurmountable 36-22 lead at intermission. Here is a look at the most important storylines from the first 20 minutes of action.
When climate change experts warned of hurricanes becoming stronger and a more frequent problem, this probably isn’t what they meant. But when the Miami Hurricanes arrived at Cameron Indoor Stadium to face Duke Saturday night, they fulfilled that prophecy in a new way.
No. 5 Duke has a marquee matchup at 10:30 p.m. Friday against No. 1 Gonzaga, who is an 8.5-point favorite, and this contest almost has too many storylines to count. There's the freshman matchup of Paolo Banchero versus Chet Holmgren, the battle down low between Mark Williams and Drew Timme and the dueling point guards of Jeremy Roach and Andrew Nembhard. And that's not even all of them. Here's who our beats think will come out on top.
Duke kicks off its season in just a few days. What do our senior beats think of this year's roster?
The end of the Coach K era comes next April, but a new era of Duke men's basketball has already begun.
It was a meaningless game. It wasn’t even a game, really, but rather an intrasquad scrimmage. Nobody won, and nobody lost.
The unofficial start to the Duke season has finally arrived. The Blue Devils are out in Cameron Indoor Stadium in front of a packed crowd for the first time since March 2020. Follow along here for live updates.