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On the heels of back-to-back wins against Oregon State and Xavier, No. 8 Duke now looks ahead to its championship tilt at the Phil Knight Legacy against No. 24 Purdue in Portland, Ore. With both the Blue Devils and Boilermakers in pursuit of a trophy in the Rose Quarter, our beat writers make their predictions before Sunday's 3:30 p.m. tipoff at the Moda Center.
Before every game this season, our football beat writers predict whether the Blue Devils will pick up a win in their weekly matchup and keep track of their records throughout the year. Duke has one last regular-season game Saturday when Wake Forest comes to Wallace Wade Stadium for a 3:30 p.m. kickoff.
PITTSBURGH—Maybe it was the cold, or maybe it was the pressure. Regardless, Duke couldn’t complete a near-miraculous comeback in the Steel City.
Before every game this season, our football beat writers predict whether the Blue Devils will pick up a win in their weekly matchup and keep track of their records throughout the year. Duke is set for one last road game Saturday against Pittsburgh with a four-game winning streak on the line.
Before every game this season, our football beat writers predict whether the Blue Devils will pick up a win in their weekly matchup and keep track of their records throughout the year. With a two-game winning streak to its name, Duke aims for its third straight Saturday at home against Virginia Tech.
In Cameron Indoor Stadium, everyone eats.
After a ruthless campaign season, Election Day has come and gone. Some races, including key North Carolina elections, have already been called, while others are still too close to call.
“To fall on one’s sword,” means to face the consequences of a situation you created. In many ways, Duke’s performance in the ACC quarterfinals reflected that adage.
With a first-round bye, the Blue Devils had two possibilities for their first opponent of the ACC tournament: the defending ACC champion or the defending national champion. In one of the weirdest soccer games of the season, the defending national champion won out, as Clemson downed Notre Dame 3-1 with the help of two own goals.
With the official tipoff of a new era at Duke just days away, The Chronicle's senior beat writers predict all things Blue Devil basketball.
Before every game this season, our football beat writers predict whether the Blue Devils will pick up a win in their weekly matchup and keep track of their records throughout the year. Coming off of a bye week, Duke gets a chance to earn its coveted sixth win Friday night at Boston College.
In the past decade or so, college basketball has undergone a seismic shift. As NBA-bound freshmen—the proverbial “one-and-dones”—increasingly bear the burden of teams’ success, the days of four-year forces like Christian Laettner and Tim Duncan sink farther below the horizon.
While the rest of the college football world plays on, Duke stands idle on its bye week Saturday. With the Blue Devils halfway through their conference schedule, The Chronicle's beat writers take a look back and a look ahead at the questions that have defined—and will define—Duke's season.
Countdown to Craziness is many things: an intrasquad scrimmage; a first look at new recruits; a raucous campus-wide spectacular. But at its core, Countdown is a love letter to Duke basketball.
Before every game this season, our football beat writers predict whether the Blue Devils will pick up a win in their weekly matchup and keep track of their records throughout the year. After falling at home in a rivalry thriller to North Carolina, Duke looks to get back in the win column Saturday at 12:30 p.m. with a road matchup at Miami:
Tuesday evening, the ACC announced the results of its annual preseason poll, with Duke checking in at No. 2 behind only North Carolina. That was not all, as two other Blue Devils—freshman center Dereck Lively II and junior guard Jeremy Roach—received a pair of individual honors themselves.
The Blue Devils have three losses, each by a single possession. They are knocking on the door of their fifth win, which would give them as many as in the previous two seasons combined. The strides the team has made since even last year are undeniable, and contending at all in these key games seems like a victory in and of itself.
Saturday night’s rivalry game between Duke and North Carolina is off to a riveting start, with the two sides trading scores early on before the Blue Devils jumped out in front at the half. With 30 minutes to play and the Victory Bell on the line at Wallace Wade Stadium, Duke leads 21-17.
Leading into the 2008 financial crisis, banks engaged in increasingly risky behavior justified by the fact that they were too big to fail. We know now that that logic led to one of the most disastrous collapses of any entity in history, and, ridiculous as it may seem, many sports teams have risen and fallen in the same way, too loaded with talent to see systemic flaws. Then, when they face some pressure and things don’t completely click, they collapse, because they were never equipped to confront their own failings.
Before every game this season, our football beat writers predict whether the Blue Devils will pick up a win in their weekly matchup and keep track of their records throughout the year. After a crushing loss in overtime at Georgia Tech, Duke now gets a shot against its fiercest rival, North Carolina, at 8 p.m. Saturday.