Opening night?
(11/10/09 5:47am)
You probably didn't know that college basketball season started tonight, but it did.
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You probably didn't know that college basketball season started tonight, but it did.
If you love college basketball, you should know that tomorrow could be a very important day.
ESPN's Andy Katz interviews Coach K and works a Duke season preview into his story. Nothing ground-breaking, but you'll read it anyway. In related news, only this long until basketball season starts. Yes, the exhibition against Pfeiffer absolutely counts.
Coach Cutcliffe isn't only looking for student support.
Hard to believe it’s been six full years since Duke Basketball last had a nighttime practice to kick off a season.
The morning after I proposed ending Krzyzewskiville, a thread entitled “Blasphemous Article about K-Ville” appeared on the message board of the Blue Devil hoops web site Duke Basketball Report. Predictably, some of the posters agreed with me, and others thought I was out of my mind. But one post stood out more than most.
Former Chronicle sports editor John Feinstein is less than pumped about Coach K's return as head coach of USA Basketball. Feinstein (who recently underwent successful heart surgery) isn't usually one to criticize Krzyzewski -- the rest of the athletic department is another matter altogether -- but he came out swinging in a post on his blog:
To me, it makes sense that I should write the obituary of Greg Paulus’s career as a Duke student-athlete on the back page of this newspaper rather than the sports page. Because when it came to the now-former Duke point guard, I always cared more about what he was like off the court than on it.
Gerald Henderson is a jerk. In fact, he's a big jerk. He's a big, fat jerk.
Pretty much any Duke fan knows that Maryland guard Greivas Vasquez said that Cameron Indoor Stadium is "[his] house" before the Duke-Maryland game on Saturday.
When I visited Duke as a high school junior, I picked up a copy of The Chronicle. I remember looking at the backpages, at the columnists, and thinking how cool it would be to have my own column. Having my own column in The Chronicle, a forum to broadcast my opinions all over campus, became my geeky dream.
In 33 days, I’ll no longer be a student at Duke for the first time in eight years.
The other day, I was shocked—shocked!—to read that Duke’s undergraduate admissions rate had fallen to 12.6 percent. Granted, undergraduate admissions hadn’t been a priority of mine since April 2003, but I seemed to remember that it was easier to get into Duke back in the day.
My friend and I have a running argument about using advanced statistics to better understand basketball.
When I started medical school, I used to claim, quite frequently, that this or the other aspect of med school or of being a doctor was entirely unique.
There were two options for this column: Either I could write a reasoned analysis of Duke’s chances to reach the Final Four, or I could write something totally outrageous. Before the Blue Devils dismantled North Carolina in the ACC tournament final, I was leaning toward a reasoned analysis of why you, the NCAA Tournament viewer, should listen to the computers (which love Duke again this year—although not as much as they did last year) and not to know-nothing television commentators. (Actual quote from an ESPN analyst who will remain nameless, when discussing a potential Duke-Ohio State Final Four matchup, “I like [Ohio State]; they’re very solid. Duke is suspect at times, so I’m going with Ohio State.”)
I decided I wanted to attend Duke Jan. 17, 2001. I was watching my Maryland Terrapins play against (and ultimately lose to) the Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium. As the teams played, I watched the students going crazy in the bleachers, and knew I had to be a part of that.
I was sick last week.
Last Wednesday night, Cameroon Indoor rocked and rolled as the Blue Devils rallied from a 14-point halftime deficit to defeat hated North Carolina by six points. Afterward, a bonfire raged as the student body celebrated.
I spent most of December and January interviewing for residency positions at hospitals all over the eastern half of the country.