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ATLANTA - All game long, Georgia Tech backcourt mates Shaun Fein and Tony Akins had played like pitcher and catcher or even father and son, one tossing it effortlessly to the other for open three-pointers to keep the Yellow Jackets' upset bid alive.
ATLANTA - After getting crushed on the boards all afternoon, the Blue Devils chose an opportune time to crash the glass Saturday at the Georgia Dome.
ATLANTA - Last Sunday showed that, despite playing with three guards and two forwards instead of a center for most of the game, Duke still had life without Carlos Boozer. Friday night in the Georgia Dome, the Blue Devils proved their interior play also has life without Boozer.
ATLANTA - With his team still teetering on the NCAA tournament bubble, Georgia Tech center Alvin Jones demonstrated precisely why he deserved his spot on the conference's first team.
During his four years at Duke, J.D. Simpson has never been a name to appear in the midst of heated basketball discussions. The four-year player has been referred to by fans more often as the basketball team's pretty boy than as a legitimate player, but this semester, Simpson has a new title by which he is called-team captain.
Duke's three members of the ACC's All-Tournament team continued to garner recognition yesterday.
GREENSBORO - Even when it became apparent to all but the most diehard N.C. State fans that last night's ACC tournament championship game had slipped out of reach, the unofficial MVP was still diving on the floor and fighting for loose balls in the final minute just as she has done all season.
CHAPEL HILL - North Carolina coach Matt Doherty has garnered a considerable amount of praise and even mention as a candidate for conference coach of the year, but yesterday the first-year coach played right into the hands of Mike Krzyzewski and No. 2 Duke.
The official report on Carlos Boozer was released yesterday, and the news is not promising for the second-ranked Blue Devils.
Only a day after Sports Illustrated for Women picked Beard as its top freshman in the nation, CBS Sportsline bestowed the same honor today on the Blue Devils' forward, who has had the most dominant season of any freshman in Duke women's basketball history.
After every practice, having just finished off a series of sprints and an overall exhausting workout, Duke's players saunter over to the sidelines and grab a drink of water or a bag of ice to help quell their aching muscles. But not Alana Beard.
The Blue Devils have set a goal for themselves, and as always, Georgia Schweitzer is doing more than her fair share to see that it is realized.
One day after leading her high school team to the championship title at the Merril Lynch Tournament in Walpole, Mass., one of the nation's best high school shooters is on her way to Durham to see if No. 7 Duke can clinch sole possession of the ACC regular-season championship.
Before Shane Battier ever stepped foot on Duke's campus, his name was cast around as the one who would fill the shoes of the recently departed Grant Hill. After tomorrow night, those two names will forever be linked, one next to the other, when Battier's No. 31 jersey is placed in Cameron's rafters alongside Hill's No. 33.
NEW YORK - The anticipated matchup at sold-out Madison Square Garden between prized point guards never materialized, at least not between Duke's Jason Williams and freshman Omar Cook of St. John's.
ATLANTA - Out of commission since Jan. 2 after a second calf injury prevented her from running, point guard Krista Gingrich eased her way into a game for the first time in better than a month last night at Georgia Tech's Alexander Memorial Coliseum.
After four years of injury-free basketball at Southwood High School in Louisiana, Alana Beard spent the last three weeks learning what it is like to watch games from the sidelines in street clothes.
The men's tennis team's quest for a national championship is under way.
The hailstorm of batteries, bottles and gum Maryland fans threw onto Duke players' families at Saturday night's men's basketball game has produced a firestorm of controversy on the College Park campus. On Monday, Maryland President C.B. Mote, athletics director Debbie Yow and coach Gary Williams issued separate statements condemning the students' behavior and announcing that new regulations will be in place by Sunday's matchup with Clemson.
Recovering from a score of illnesses that kept him out of singles play during the ACC indoor championships a week-and-a-half ago, freshman Phillip King bounced back this weekend to sweep both the singles and doubles titles at the adidas Tennis Classic in Orlando, Fla.
