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The last time Duke honored scholarship seniors in 2006, the Blue Devils lined up at midcourt after an 83-76 loss to North Carolina, thanked the crowd and basked in serenade of "Thank you, seniors!"
Duke starts every game playing "1," its trademark man-to-man defense. What the Blue Devils do next is anyone's guess.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Even Sean Singletary couldn't rescue Virginia Wednesday night. Not when Duke built an insurmountable edge with a 15-0 first-half run, not when freshman Kyle Singler proved unstoppable early in the second half, not when the Blue Devils shot better than 50 percent from the floor.
My parents used to scoff at the amount of time I spent staring at a screen and pecking at a keyboard. They still do. "Look, he's on a date with his girlfriend!" Dad says when he feels especially witty or justified enough to equate my time online to a lack of a significant other.
Senior guard Wanisha Smith can recall the one overarching memory from Duke's 93-76 loss to North Carolina Feb. 4.
CHAPEL HILL - North Carolina fans refused to believe the score and the foreseeable finish. They still had hope for their third-ranked Tar Heels, even if their team trailed No. 2 Duke by nine points with less than two minutes to play. Their chants of "It's not over" reverberated around the Dean E. Smith Center, and they grew louder and louder until the cavernous arena filled with echoes.
CHAPEL HILL - Gerald Henderson expected taunts and jeers for elbowing Tyler Hansbrough the last time the two Tobacco Road rivals squared off at the Dean E. Smith Center. But the sophomore couldn't quite anticipate the "Wanted" posters that he saw in North Carolina's student section.
Dick Vitale, the most recognizable voice in college basketball, couldn't even speak from Dec. 18 to Jan. 13. Vitale underwent throat surgery for potentially cancerous ulcers on his left vocal cord, which eventually proved non-cancerous. Vitale returns to the microphone for the first time since surgery tonight in Chapel Hill. The Chronicle's Ben Cohen took part of a teleconference with the ESPN analyst Monday.
The game's outcome was long decided, but if you happened to amble into Cameron Indoor Stadium with 1:31 left in the second half of Monday's defeat, you would have witnessed Duke's loss in a nutshell.
As sports fans, Duke students are a puzzling anomaly. They're hopelessly irrational yet somewhat sensible, traditional but still trendy, and, more than anything, just plain weird. They file into Cameron's wooden bleachers for men's matchups even Vegas won't touch and a small yearly slate of women's games. They pack Koskinen for the biennial men's soccer game against North Carolina and, especially now, for any chance to see Matt Danowski and Zack Greer on the same field. Hell, they even show up en masse to tennis matches. Strange? Sure, but that's not the most perplexing part.
Greg Paulus doesn't boast about his play, not in public at least. The team? That's fair. Ask Paulus about his individual game, though, and his answer will be trite.
Nearly 12 minutes into Saturday's game against Michigan, head coach Mike Krzyzewski was not pleased with Duke's effort. The Blue Devils only led 17-12--a byproduct of slow transition defense and several missed layups on the other end of the court-when Krzyzewski asked for a 30-second timeout.
NEW YORK - It had all the makings of a classic: a frenzied crowd in the World's Most Famous Arena, a back-and-forth second half, a clutch play that left spectators in awe, not one but two hectic finishes and heroes, plenty of heroes. But in all of the games of Duke lore-Hill to Laettner, McRoberts to Dockery, Scheyer to McClure-the last hero standing wore a white jersey with Duke stitched across the chest.
When Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie described a team as physical, scrappy and gritty Thursday, she was not talking about Rutgers.
Deep in record books documenting J.J. Redick's scoring averages and the 1938 Iron Dukes' box scores rests a conspicuous absence of fact. Duke has never employed a black head coach in any sport. For all of its record-breaking achievements, the athletics department with perhaps the foremost national reputation has a stark lack of diversity at the top of its programs.
The main page of Vanderbilt's athletics website was completely black Wednesday, except for a large banner of bolded white-and-gold print that read "Beat Duke."
I don't like Krzyzewskiville. There, I said it. Go ahead, Cameron Crazies. Wiggle those spirit fingers at me.
Six potential candidates have surfaced for Duke's newly-vacated head coaching job. Former head coach Ted Roof was fired Monday after compiling a 6-45 record during his tenure.
In head coach Joanne P. McCallie's rookie season, almost every game will provide a first for Duke. On Sunday night against No. 2 Connecticut, the ninth-ranked Blue Devils had a chance to garner their first win over an elite opponent in their first marquee matchup of the year.
By now, you've watched the video on ESPN. You've seen the blood-soaked photos in the newspaper. You've heard too many people debate whether it was intentional.
