Wrestlers take optimism to ACC tourney
Judging by its record, it has been a tough year for the wrestling team. The Blue Devils are 7-6 overall, but they lost all five of their Atlantic Coast Conference matches this season.
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Judging by its record, it has been a tough year for the wrestling team. The Blue Devils are 7-6 overall, but they lost all five of their Atlantic Coast Conference matches this season.
The women's indoor track and field team spent the weekend at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. There the Blue Devils took part in the George Mason Last Chance Invitational.
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The men's basketball team should have no problem getting motivated for Sunday afternoon's game at Wake Forest.
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During the November signing period, the women' s basketball tam signed one recruit, Jennifer McGinnis. The following is a profile of the top-40 prep player from Tennessee.
Last year at this time, the women's basketball team was coming off a tournament victory at the Duke Women's Basketball Classic. The Blue Devils won the two games by an average of 16 points, but something was not quite right.
If anyone doubted that this year's men's basketball team would be a completely different one than last year's, the first two games of the regular season have put the doubt to rest.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--A Duke sports team that travels to Chapel Hill to take on North Carolina is always ready for a battle. Regardless of the teams' records, the Tar Heels almost always give the Blue Devils problems in the world of baby blue.
The volleyball team went into the weekend well aware of the task at hand.
Imagine this: The football team enters the fourth quarter tied with Army 21-21. The Blue Devils proceed to tighten up, make careless errors down the stretch and lose a heartbreaker to the Cadets.
RALEIGH -- The weather this weekend was terrible. Heavy rains and cloudy skies dominated both Saturday and Sunday.
Preseason practice was winding down, and the players on the volleyball team were exhausted. They had been going through days of grueling two-a-day workouts in preparation for the beginning of the regular season, and little energy was left in reserve.
The women's tennis team has one of the best players in the country on its roster. Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, Kelli-Anne Johnston will probably remain a name on the roster, unable to compete this season.
Although few people seem to know it, the Duke tennis program could very well be the strongest collegiate tennis program in the country.
By DAN WICHMAN
By DAN WICHMAN
Saturday was just another day at the office for the third-ranked women's tennis team.
The seventh-ranked men's tennis team is the dominant team in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and North Carolina is the only team that seems capable of challenging Duke's supremacy. Duke has proven itself to be far superior to the other ACC teams, to the point at which matches with most teams have become something of a chore.
It is becoming routine for the men's tennis team. Each Atlantic Coast Conference match has meant another blowout, as Duke has yet to lose more than one point against an ACC foe this season.