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Kevin Cassese could not find enough peace and quiet. The All-America midfielder kept switching locations, trying to find a space where he could gather his thoughts about the latest of a string of bitter losses for the men's lacrosse team.
Saturday is Senior Day for the Blue Devils. Their opponent is a familiar one: ACC rival and frequent Senior Day foe Virginia. Two years ago Duke defeated the No. 6 Cavaliers on a dramatic goal in the final 10 seconds of play.
ATLANTA -- One year removed from an NCAA semifinal loss to Oklahoma, the Duke women's basketball team worked all year to climb the next rung in the ladder of national prominence. After struggling to get through the first four rounds of the 2003 NCAA Tournament, the Blue Devils hoped to discover their best basketball in Atlanta.
ATLANTA -- With 12:25 left to play, the mighty Connecticut women's basketball team found itself trailing 50-41 to underdog Texas. At no time this year had the Huskies faced a larger deficit.
CHAPEL HILL -- After a week of intense speculation, the University of North Carolina made it official Tuesday evening: Matt Doherty will no longer be the Tar Heels' head coach.
SALT LAKE CITY -- After surviving a first-round scare against Colorado State two days previously, the men's basketball team took the court at the Huntsman Center Saturday and promptly pummeled Central Michigan 86-60. Dahntay Jones scored a game-high 28 points and the third-seeded Blue Devils employed suffocating defense to put away the Chippewas, the 11th seed in the West region.
Salt Lake City - An upset special themselves last year when they took out Florida as a No. 12 seed, the Creighton Blue Jays discovered just how difficult it is to play as a favorite in the NCAA Tournament Thursday night.
Salt Lake City - The stage was set for a major upset.
GREENSBORO -- Four championships, four pullups.
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GREEBSBORO -- Just as it did Friday night against Wake Forest, Duke jumped out to an early 10-point lead minutes into Sunday's matchup against Georgia Tech in the ACC Tournament's second round. Unlike the sputtering performance in the first round, however, the Blue Devils never wavered Sunday, opening a 30-point advantage early in the second half and cruising to a 76-52 victory in the Greensboro Coliseum.
After blowing away opponents by at least 21 points for the past month, the No. 2 women's basketball team suffered a major hiccup Friday night in the ACC Tournament's first round. Despite facing a Wake Forest team that posted just a 3-13 conference record during the regular season, the Blue Devils held just a three-point lead with 14 seconds left, and had to cross their collective fingers that a desperation three-point shot would fall short.
What do you say to someone who refuses to take a hint? What do you say to someone so stubborn and relentless that she refuses to believe what so many others feel is inevitable?
All season long Sheana Mosch has worked to instill the Blue Devils with enthusiasm. Ever since moving to the bench early in the year, the senior tri-captain has been looking to make the game as fun as possible for teammates, beginning in the pregame starting lineups, where her chest bumps to every starter have become a fixture.
Hard work has become a mantra for the women's rowing team. Like distance runners, rowers often focus less on skill work and more on sheer grunt work, spending hour after hour on urging machines.
After Duke's bitterly fought 78-67 overtime victory over North Carolina in January, many people expected an equally competitive contest Thursday night when the Tar Heels came to Cameron Indoor Stadium. Nationally, it was No. 2 vs. No. 6. Within the ACC, it was No. 1 vs. No. 2.
With 6:27 left in Duke's Wednesday night battle with archrival North Carolina, Chris Duhon and Dahntay Jones took the floor following a media timeout and looked up at the scoreboard. Tie ballgame: 61-61.
For every program, the proverbial step up from dark house candidate to expected national championship contender is difficult to make. Since reaching the Final Four in 1997, Duke men's lacrosse has been so close to joining the NCAA elite.
She is beautiful.
Undefeated and ranked No. 1 in the nation since the preseason polls in October, Duke eagerly welcomed defending national champion Connecticut and its NCAA-record 58-game winning streak into its home arena for the first time Saturday night. The game offered the Blue Devils a chance to make a statement confirming their rise from also-ran to national contender.
