THE CASE FOR DUKE
(03/09/06 5:00am)
Losing two games in a row to end the season is never a good omen when it comes to postseason success.
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Losing two games in a row to end the season is never a good omen when it comes to postseason success.
I hate the Tar Heels. I despise everything Carolina blue. I still call Sean May fat.
Watching Duke play this season, it's obvious that something is different. The offense runs more fluidly than last year. The defense provides a little more pressure, too.
The Worldwide Leader in Sports will take the nation's premier college rivalry to a whole new level this weekend.
ATLANTA - For the first time in his last six games, J.J. Redick looked human.
The most exclusive club at Duke University hangs the names and numbers of its members from the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium. In the Krzyzewski era, a 26-year period that includes 10 Final Fours and three National Championships, just seven players have been given the golden ticket. Only 11 players have been given the honor in over 100 years of Duke basketball. So it seems kind of crazy to suggest that two players graduating in the same year are worthy of Duke's highest basketball honor.
There comes a time every season when college basketball pundits say that freshmen are no longer freshmen. For Tar Heel Tyler Hansbrough, that time appears to have come.
Five days after No. 4 Maryland knocked off then-No. 1 North Carolina, the Terrapins seemed poised to upset another top-ranked opponent, holding a 41-33 halftime advantage over Duke.
This week has been one of the most exciting in recent Duke basketball history, but most people have failed to notice.
Two of the nation's best point guards battled Sunday night to show who plays for the country's best team.
Less than two weeks into 2006, Duke has already received its first two verbal commitments for the recruiting class of 2007. Nolan Smith, a junior at Oak Hill Academy and Taylor King, a junior at Mater Dei High School, each informed head coach Mike Krzyzewski yesterday that he will enroll at Duke in the fall of 2007.
In a game that many expected the Blue Devils to cruise through while riding an emotional high from Sunday's last-second victory over Virginia Tech, Duke struggled out of the gate and was never able to pull away from the pesky Quakers (3-3). It was far from picturesque, but No. 1 Duke (8-0) defeated the University of Pennsylvania 72-59 Wednesday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
It wasn't pretty, but No. 1 Duke defeated the University of Pennsylvania 72-59 Wednesday night.
Cameron Indoor Stadium, Wallace Wade Stadium, and now the Karcher-Ingram Golf Center.
As a freshman, DeMarcus Nelson ruptured a ligament in his right thumb, an injury that hampered his performance all season. This year, the sophomore will have to cope with another injury, a hairline fracture in his right ankle.
NEW YORK - Duke senior Shelden Williams has always been known as a game-changing defensive player. Friday night in the championship game of the NIT Season Tip-Off, Williams showed the country just how good he can be at the other end of the court.
Before any Duke student had heard of Martynas Pocius, the Blue Devil recruiting class was already considered one of the best in the country, and as a result, little fanfare was given to Pocius' commitment last October.
CLEMSON, S.C. - Unlike many Duke games this season, the Blue Devils did not get blown out in the third quarter. Instead, Clemson put the game out of reach just before halftime.
All week long at practice, loudspeakers have been blasting "Tiger Rag," the Clemson fight song, to get the Blue Devils ready for this weekend's noisy environment.
Following Duke's 44-6 drubbing Saturday against Wake Forest, the Blue Devils had little to celebrate.