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In mid-October, when four of the nation's top prep stars committed to attend Duke, many Blue Devils fans accepted their team's 1997-98 preseason No. 1 ranking as a foregone conclusion.
After a winter indoors, the intense Duke-North Carolina rivalry moves outside tonight when the 11th-ranked men's lacrosse team (2-1, 1-0 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) hosts the No. 8 Tar Heels (2-1) at 7 p.m. at Duke Lacrosse Stadium.
After a late-season surge gave it considerable momentum, the wrestling team suffered a disappointing showing at Saturday's Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament in Raleigh.
What has been the difference between the wrestling team's mediocre 1995-96 season and its stellar 1996-97 campaign? A guaranteed victory each meet at 126 lbs.-courtesy of junior Chris Heckel-has helped Duke ever so slightly in earning its second Atlantic Coast Conference triumph in seven years and a winning overall record.
As the end of the men's basketball season approaches, observers nationwide are trying to predict the NCAA Tournament's field of 64. Self-proclaimed experts guess which teams will make the tourney, which won't and-for those clubs that do get invites-what seed each team will receive.
The wrestling team made an impressive showing in a pair of meets at Cameron Indoor Stadium this weekend and came away with a split decision.
After enduring months of grueling, early-morning practices, the women's swimming team has finally reached the pinnacle of its season. Beginning today, Duke competes at the three-day-long Atlantic Coast Conference Championships at Koury Natatorium in Chapel Hill, where its swimmers will shoot for career-best marks.
The sixth-ranked men's basketball team took a giant step Tuesday night toward winning its first regular-season Atlantic Coast Conference championship since the Grant Hill era, knocking off No. 8 Clemson, 84-77, at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The last time the men's basketball team won four games in one season against its Big Four intrastate rivals, Bobby Hurley and Thomas Hill comprised the Duke backcourt.
On a weekend when several of her women's track teammates broke school and personal records, sophomore Jeanie Minton stole the show, setting a school record and five personal records and placing in Duke's all-time top five in four different events at the Virginia Tech Five Way in Blacksburg, Va.
For 39 minutes Wednesday night, Duke and North Carolina fought a back-and-forth battle just as they have frequently throughout their storied men's basketball rivalry. With 42 seconds remaining, however, Trajan Langdon took charge.
Every few years, a wrestling home meet takes place just days before the Duke-North Carolina men's basketball game, and thus coincides with the Krzyzewskiville student camp-out. In such instances, several hundred-perhaps more than a thousand-students pour into Cameron Indoor Stadium, giving the wrestling team a much larger crowd than usual.
In their rich men's basketball histories, Duke and Maryland have both featured numerous All-Americans who carried their teams to championship status. Jerseys that once belonged to Joe Smith, Len Bias, Len Elmore and several others hang from the roof of Maryland's Cole Field House, while at Duke, fans reminisce about the glory days of Grant Hill, Danny Ferry and Art Heyman.
Given a choice, the struggling women's basketball might have picked a different remedy for its recent slump than facing 10th-ranked Clemson.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the usually bitter Duke-North Carolina men's basketball rivalry may have taken a strange turn.
The women's track team kicked off the new year in fine fashion, with three runners breaking school records last weekend at the squad's first meet of 1997, the Virginia Tech Invitational in Blacksburg, Va.
Take Harold Deane away from the Virginia Cavaliers, and they don't have a chance against the men's basketball team.
No matter how much of an impact freshmen have had on college basketball in recent years, experience always matters. Don't think so? Just look at the Big Ten. The conference that gave the world the Fab Five is now proving the importance of upperclass leadership.
Charlottesville, Va. - During Saturday night's men's soccer game, the ominous clouds above Charlottesville produced only a light drizzle. At Klockner Stadium, however, revenge-minded Virginia unleashed a furious storm, pouring in five goals within a 25-minute second-half span to pound No. 9 Duke, 6-1.
For college basketball players and coaches across the country, today brings endless hope. Every Oct. 15 schools nationwide begin practice, and from Akron to Yale, basketball-crazed folk brim with excitement.
