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With the end of 2015 quickly approaching, The Chronicle's sports department takes a look back at the biggest sports stories of the year. Each day, The Blue Zone will review a major game, event or storyline that helped shape the course of the year in Blue Devil athletics.
With the end of 2015 quickly approaching, The Chronicle's sports department takes a look back at the biggest sports stories of the year. Each day, The Blue Zone will review a major game, event or storyline that helped shape the course of the year in Blue Devil athletics.
After being featured on a SportsCenter commercial last week, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski got called back for an encore.
The Blue Devils spent Christmas in the Big Apple, but the present they were looking for will have to be earned on the field Saturday—a bowl victory.
NEW YORK—Last year, the Blue Devils squared off with Utah in the Sweet 16 and earned a gritty 63-57 victory en route to a national championship.
The Blue Devils will be playing their bowl game in a baseball stadium, so as part of their preparation for next week's showdown against Indiana, they decided to dabble in America's pastime themselves.
Duke had escaped the injury bug early in the season, but the reprieve came to an abrupt end Monday, when the Blue Devils announced that senior captain Amile Jefferson will be sidelined indefinitely with a right foot injury.
The Blue Devils have already dealt with adversity once this year, following a disheartening loss to then-No. 2 Kentucky. They responded by winning the 2K Classic in New York and then ripping off four straight victories of 19 points or more.
The Blue Devils secured a bowl bid for the fourth consecutive season Sunday when they accepted a bid to the New Era Pinstripe Bowl against Indiana Dec. 26 at 3:30 p.m. at Yankee Stadium.
Seven months after announcing that freshman Justin Robinson would receive a full scholarship, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski confirmed that Robinson will be redshirting this year.
After pouring 94 points on Indiana Wednesday and racking up 85 against Utah State last Sunday, it looked like the Duke offense was finally starting to click.
Patience is not something college basketball does well nowadays. With the one-and-done system entrenched as the path for top-flight players, just a few dozen games are all hyped-up high school talents get in the college game before they are off to sign multi-million dollar contracts in the professional ranks.
Duke safety Jeremy Cash picked up his third all-conference recognition Monday. On Wednesday, he earned an even bigger honor.
Each of the past three years, the Blue Devils have made an early-season statement with a big win against a ranked opponent coming off of a Final Four appearance in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
It’s been a very, very long time since Duke squared off against Yale.
T.J. Rahming
After bouncing back from its loss to Kentucky with a narrow 79-71 victory against Virginia Commonwealth Friday, No. 5 Duke has a chance to take home the 2K Classic title Sunday against Georgetown. The Blue Devils haven't squared off with the Hoyas—who knocked off Wisconsin 71-61 in the other semifinal Friday—since 2010, and head coach John Thompson III brings a dangerous squad into Sunday's showdown at Madison Square Garden. The Blue Zone takes a look at one player from each team who could be the difference:
Sometimes, a team has to be punched in the mouth and knocked down to see what it is made of.
The Blue Devils received their first commit for the Class of 2016 Tuesday when five-star forward Leonna Odom signed her National Letter of Intent to come to Durham next fall. The 6-foot-2 Odom is the No. 9 prospect and top-ranked wing in her entire class, per ESPN, and received a 98 scouting grade.
After the season’s opening weekend, all the hype surrounding Duke basketball is not about its top-ranked recruiting class, nor its nationally televised showdown with No. 2 Kentucky Tuesday—but rather the magnificent scoring prowess of Grayson Allen.
