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As the fanfare for the Duke All-Star Charity Basketball Game grew in the weeks preceding this once-in-a-lifetime event, Blue Devil fans across the nation anticipated a brilliant performance by a man named Hill.
It was the call she always wanted to receive.
After competing for Team USA this summer, Duke players Chris Duhon, Carlos Boozer and Dahntay Jones are not only national champions, they are world champions. Paced by Boozer, who led his team in scoring and rebounding, and Duhon, whose asserted himself as captain of the squad of college all-stars, the USA basketball team went 8-0 and took home the gold medal in the FIBA World Championship for Young Men in Saitama, Japan earlier this month.
After experiencing a season he would rather forget, Duke quarterback D. Bryant has returned to action with a newfound confidence and optimism that could be a boon for the Blue Devils once the football season starts.
Like so many other accomplished college basketball players, Duke forward Billy King's dream was to play basketball on the professional level. And after being named the national defensive player of the year his senior season and excelling as a co-captain for a Duke team that made it to the Final Four in 1988, King's dreams were not far-fetched.
NEW YORK -- Being selected sixth in the 2001 NBA Draft might not have been the perfect professional beginning for last season's national player of the year, but make no mistake about it: Shane Battier is happy to be in Memphis.
Vanderbilt women's soccer coach Robbie Church always wanted to come back to Duke.
Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has experienced much success throughout his coaching career, but no period in his life has come close to the one he has entered into over the past four months. Sitting in his penthouse office on the sixth floor of the Schwartz-Butters building, Krzyzewski reminisced about his recent success, talked about his future in coaching, and sounded off on some of college basketball's most pressing issues in a one-on-one interview with Chronicle Sports Editor Craig Saperstein. Here are the highlights of this encounter:
Excited to join an already top-notch recruiting class and likely influenced by the decision of fellow point guard Anthony Roberson to commit to Florida, Sean Dockery committed to Duke July 7.
Fresh off a 2000 season that saw her emerge as one of the country's best freshman, Duke wing player Alana Beard will receive an opportunity this summer to prove her talent to the world. The 6-foot-1 rising sophomore, along with future Blue Devil teammates Wynter Whitley and Monique Curry, will play for the U.S. junior national team as it competes in the U.S.A. Basketball International Invitational in Washington D.C. July 4 through July 8. The three Blue Devils and their nine other teammates were chosen after four days of intensive tryouts at the U.S.A. Basketball training facility in Colorado Springs, Colo. Needless to say, Beard--who led last year's junior national team to five victories in five successive days at the 2000 COPABA Junior World Championship Qualifying Tournament in Argentina last summer--was delighted to be selected for the second consecutive year. "It's going to be another great experience," Beard said. "I'm going to use this to better my skills and my leadership. It's going to be a great experience playing with these girls and most of all playing with two of my future teammates." One of Beard's future teammates, Curry, also expressed her excitement about representing her country in the nation's capitol next month. But unlike Beard, who was nearly a lock for the team after she was named national freshman player of the year and selected to the All-America team, Curry had to impress the selection committee and coach Geno Auriemma to make the highly competitive team. "It was just a relief and it was really exciting," said
Just over two weeks after women's soccer coach Bill Hempen departed Duke to take over the reins at Colorado, the search for his replacement is in full swing. As many as 50 candidates have applied for the job thus far and more applications are expected before the June 30 deadline.
After signing forward Wynter Whitley last summer and wing player Monique Curry last fall, the women's basketball team may be on its way to adding a third vital component to their already impressive freshman recruiting class.
Duke pole vaulter Jillian Schwartz fell just short of capturing the NCAA individual pole vaulting crown last weekend in Eugene. Ore., but that does not mean she is disappointed.
Summer basketball tournaments have often served as a showcase for the best players on the Duke men's basketball team.
While three of his teammates will likely be chosen to represent their country in the FIBA World Championships for Young Men tournament in August, Team USA alum Jason Williams has something different in mind for this summer.
When a person thinks about a slippery slope in terms of golf, he is usually referring to the undulation of a putting green. But last week, with the decision by the Supreme Court to allow professional golfer Casey Martin to use a cart when playing in Professional Golf Association Tour events, a whole new question has arisen: Will allowing Martin to use a golf cart while playing in PGA events result in a bevy of requests for special accommodations by other players? Well, it might, but the decision was correct nonetheless.
Duke golfer Leif Olson has played the Duke Golf Club course more than any other player in this week's NCAA championship field, but that does not mean the sophomore entered the tournament with an advantage.
Men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has been recognized many times for his numerous achievements. But no honor can come close to the one he received yesterday--being inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame.
Less than two months ago, the entire country witnessed Duke basketball player Shane Battier lead his team to a national championship in the Blue Devils' 82-72 victory over Arizona. However, later this summer the entire world will get to see the recent graduate compete for a gold medal in the 2001 Goodwill Games as the only collegiate player on the USA basketball team.
With dazzling performances last weekend at the IC4A/ECAC Invitationals in Princeton, New Jersey, two Duke track stars vaulted themselves into the record books. Or more specifically, they pole vaulted themselves into the record books.
