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CHICAGO - Is it any wonder Mike Krzyzewski likes going home?
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CHICAGO - Is it any wonder Mike Krzyzewski likes going home?
For the better part of a decade, no matter how bad things got, no matter how many conference losses piled up, there were always two kind words on the football team's schedule: Wake Forest.
Recognize the odor that seems to follow Herb Sendek around these days?
Chris Carrawell's bed was empty.
The Chronicle celebrates one of Duke's most successful decades by honoring our top 10 Devils of the Decade. Each Tuesday, The Chronicle will feature one of the selected athletes. Today we profile athlete No. 4, Bobby Hurley.
CHAPEL HILL - It was barely 6 p.m.-and seemed way too early-when the shadows crept across the University of North Carolina's Fetzer Field and night fell prematurely on the women's soccer team's once-promising season. The Blue Devils, who opened the season with five wins in six tries, had their postseason hopes all but laid to rest when Maryland's Jackie Mynarski poked home the game-winning goal in the 77th minute of a 2-1 Terrapin victory. The second-seeded Terps (10-8-1) advanced to play Wake Forest in the ACC tournament semifinals, while the No. 8 Blue Devils (12-9) were left to ponder what might have been and perhaps what should have been on an afternoon when Duke held a 14-7 advantage in shots. "We got chances, even a couple of breakaways we didn't finish that we should have," said Sherrill Kester, who scored Duke's lone goal. "It was definitely pretty frustrating." The Terps, held without a shot for the game's first 23 minutes, grabbed a 1-0 lead on their only opportunity of the first half. Sara Gustafson took advantage of a poor clearance and a scramble in the Duke penalty area, poking a loose ball past Duke keeper Isis Dallis in the 24th minute. "That first goal was something we've talked about and worked on all year," Dallis said. "I don't know what percentage of goals have been scored on balls that bounced in the box and stayed too long." The Terps' 1-0 lead held up until the 53rd minute, when a short corner kick found Kester open from 15 yards out. The senior's first shot was blocked by a Maryland defender, but the rebound bounced back to Kester's feet and she buried a second shot inside the far post. Maryland nearly took the lead back moments later on a volley by Emily Janss from 10 yards that eluded a diving Dallis. But the ball spun sideways and rolled wide of the near post by inches. Then it was Duke's turn to misfire. Kester couldn't convert a 61st-minute breakaway, and Kasey Truman caught Terrapin keeper Riki-Ann Serens off her line only to shoot high over the crossbar. Just when it appeared Duke might break through, Serens made the save of the day, punching a one-timer by Kester up and over the bar. "Every time she touched the ball, it was a frightening experience," Maryland coach Shannon Higgins-Cirovski said of Kester. "We played well in goal, and obviously our quality of shots was greater." Serens' save seemed to take the life out of the Blue Devils, and the opportunistic Terps took advantage of another chaotic scramble minutes later. Dana Jarzyniecki played a low ball in front of Dallis, who was unable to control the pass. Mynarski snatched the loose ball and put it away for a 2-1 lead and the final margin. "The ball came across the box... and I had to go out and try to get something on it," Dallis said. "I tried to smother it, but it bounced off my chest or my hands and [Mynarski] was in perfect position to put it away." Coach Bill Hempen's Blue Devils must now wait and see if victories over five ranked opponents are enough to earn an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. "We had a good end to the season and came into the tournament very positive, thinking we could get to the final," Hempen said. "I would hope that between the schedule we play and the wins we have-although we have some losses that could hurt us a little-I would hope that we have the opportunity to play farther." The loss may have been the last for Kester, who stands as Duke's second all-time leading goal scorer with 35 goals. Her 14 goals in 1999 mark the third-best season total in school history.
Telling the difference between the eighth-ranked team in the nation and a squad looking for its first home win is not supposed to be difficult.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - There were no mascots on the field, no tuba players knocked over in the endzone and no Joe Montana-to-Dwight Clark connections.
Spencer Romine is back, but will it make a difference for an offense that never arrived in the first place?
No one was going to shoot from there. At least no one in his right mind.
A teenager is the newest player in one of college basketball's fastest-growing rivalries.
There won't be a yarmulke in Cole Field House after all.
Little by little, the women's soccer team is making its way home.
hese days, Isis Dallis feels she has a lot to prove.
The women's soccer team got four goals, two solid defensive performances and a pair of victories in a road trip to Missouri, but the weekend's most important number might have been zero.
ATHENS, Ga. - Doug Root had been in this situation before. The junior, desperately trying to rescue the men's tennis team and its national title dreams in the NCAA quarterfinals on Sunday, could hear teammate Jordan Wile screaming, "Remember Milwaukee!" and understood exactly what he meant. Root trailed Louisiana State's Tom Hand late in the third set of their No. 2 singles match, a match which had already lasted four hours and two rain delays. With the team score tied at 3-3, Root was Duke's last hope. And as Hand served for the match at 5-4, the Blue Devils recalled the 1998 Milwaukee Classic, when Root, then a sophomore, came from behind to defeat Hand in three sets, fighting off multiple match points. "I was thinking maybe he would start remembering that, too," said Root. "You know, just to put a little more pressure on him." But Hand proved equal to the challenge this time, persevering even after the tenacious Root saved two match points and stayed focused as the match moved indoors to avoid the rain. In a dramatic final game, Hand fought off two break points and finally put the Blue Devils away with a hard forehand volley for a 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 decision and a 4-3 LSU victory. "I felt like I came up with some good shots to keep the pressure on him," Root said. "But he didn't really miss any easy balls or anything. He just played well." The tense battle at No. 2 singles was the match of the day at the University of Georgia's Dan Magill Tennis Center, but that was little consolation for the Blue Devils, who missed out on a chance to reach the NCAA Final Four for the first time in school history. "I feel this is the best team we've [ever] had," Duke coach Jay Lapidus said. "I thought we had a legitimate chance to win it [all]." Easy singles victories from Pedro Escudero (No. 3), Ramsey Smith (No. 4), and Andres Pedroso (No. 5) weren't enough to save the Blue Devils, who lost the doubles point Sunday for just the third time all year. Duke's school-record 19-match winning streak also came to an end. "Root has won a lot of big matches for us," Lapidus said. "Two years ago he won a [clinching] match in the Regionals when he was down a break in the third and came back. He's definitely one of the guys I'd like to have out there in that situation." LSU's run ended in the semifinals at the hands of top-ranked UCLA. But host Georgia, seeded 10th in the 16-team field, stunned everyone by upsetting the Bruins 4-3 in the finals to capture their third national championship in school history. In singles competition, Dukes Dmitry Muzyka fell in the first round Wednesday 6-3, 6-2 to a familiar foe: LSU's Hand. The Blue Devils other entry, Root, dropped a first-round decision to Illinois' Oliver Freelove, 6-1, 6-4. Root had defeated Freelove earlier this season, 6-2, 7-5. Muzyka and Jordan Wile will team up in the doubles competition beginning today.
On the one hand, Corey Maggette had the advice of his parents, his grandparents, one of college basketball's winningest coaches and the greatest hoops player of his era.
Olga Gvozdenovic says she doesn't watch a lot of television, and the evidence backs her up.
Somewhere between promising and frustrating, somewhere right around enigmatic, you will find Roshown McLeod's rookie year in the NBA.
Taymon Domzalski may have gone unused for the last month of his college career, but he hasn't gone unnoticed.