Column: Duke men’s lacrosse’s title-game loss to Notre Dame proves why history doesn’t and shouldn’t matter
Duke and Notre Dame have history.
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Duke and Notre Dame have history.
The stage is set, and what a stage it is.
I don’t really have a word for what happened to me last spring. As a writer, I’ve always enjoyed the challenge of finding the perfect word for a situation, but I don’t think one exists in this case. All the best options are fraught with the worst implications of things that didn’t happen, so instead, I ask you, the reader, to trust that I had an encounter with a male colleague that triggered one of the worst weeks of my life.
Freshman Charles Balsamo dragged the back of his thumb across his neck. Collecting a pass from senior attacker Dyson Williams from behind the net with 32 seconds left, Balsamo scored on the man-up to ice the game 18-14. Well, almost.
Coming into Saturday, junior Jake Naso had played in 45 career games and won less than 50% of a game’s faceoffs only nine times. A third of those times had come in his three games against Virginia graduate student Petey LaSalla. Despite solidifying himself as one of the nation’s premier faceoff specialists over the course of three years, and despite Duke’s 22-2 record against the Cavaliers since 2005, Naso could not break the curse of LaSalla.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—A trip across North Carolina’s northern border brought some of the harshest conditions lacrosse has to offer. A dark, windy sky dumped rain onto the field at Klockner Stadium, and gameplay floundered on the sopping grass.
Once the hullabaloo of the NCAA tournament has subsided, all eyes stay on Duke to see which of its usual group of freshman studs will depart for greener NBA pastures. One of the most pressing names on that list has been Dereck Lively II.
ORLANDO, Fla.—Last Saturday, after the Blue Devils earned the right to hang another ACC championship banner in Cameron Indoor Stadium, Tyrese Proctor said, “I don’t think we are freshmen at all anymore. We’ve grown up really quick.” It was true then, and with all they accomplished and how much they grew, it is still true, even in the shadow of a second-round NCAA tournament exit.
ORLANDO, Fla.—With a ticket to the Sweet 16 on the line, No. 5-seed Duke and No. 4-seed Tennessee are halfway through an intense contest at the Amway Center. The score remains tight, but the Volunteers have the 27-21 advantage heading to the final frame.
With 10 consecutive wins to its name and a first-round victory against Oral Roberts in the books, No. 5-seed Duke meets No. 4-seed Tennessee in Orlando, Fla., Saturday afternoon with a trip to the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16 on the line. As tipoff nears, The Chronicle's beat writers make their picks.
ORLANDO, Fla.—In the eight minutes and change it took Oral Roberts to score a point Thursday evening, you could have listened to almost all of Don McLean’s 1971 single American Pie, the longest song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 until Taylor Swift’s All Too Well (10 Minute Version) in 2021.
After winning its last nine games and claiming an ACC tournament title, No. 5-seed Duke begins its NCAA tournament journey Thursday evening against No. 12-seed Oral Roberts at the Amway Center in Orlando, Fla. Before the 7:10 p.m. tipoff, The Chronicle's beat writers make their predictions.
On Thursday, the NCAA tournament begins in earnest, and that evening, No. 5-seed Duke begins a new NCAA tournament run, this time with a new head coach but the same goal of a sixth national title banner in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
At 8:30 p.m. Saturday, No. 4-seed Duke and No. 2-seed Virginia meet to cap a wild week in Greensboro Coliseum in the ACC tournament final. Before tipoff, The Chronicle's beat writers make their predictions on which team will take home the title.
GREENSBORO, N.C.—You could have sounded the final buzzer then. With 17:04 left in the game, 7-foot-2 center Dereck Lively II lined up on the wing and hit his second-career three to put Duke up 60-32. If the game was out of control before, that was when it ended.
Luck was not on Duke’s side.
At 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Duke and North Carolina meet for the second time this season, this time down the road in Chapel Hill. Before the regular-season finale tips off, The Chronicle's beat writers make their predictions.
In the teams’ Jan. 4 bout, N.C. State whooped the Blue Devils 84-60 in Duke’s worst loss of the season. Two weeks prior, Duke had fallen to Wake Forest and 10 days later, it would suffer another blow at the hands of Clemson. The only thing to take from a performance defined by turnovers and a breakdown of the team’s game plan was that the Blue Devils had serious questions to answer. Amidst lineup churn and glaring deficiencies, could Duke become a true postseason challenger by March?
Playing at home in Cameron Indoor Stadium for one last time in the 2022-23 season, Duke kept pace with visiting N.C. State early Tuesday evening before gaining slight separation late in the first half. Heading to the locker room, the Blue Devils have earned a slim 33-29 advantage.
SYRACUSE, N.Y.—If Cameron Indoor Stadium intimidates visiting opponents with its intimacy, the JMA Wireless Dome brings the thunder with its sheer size.