Blue Devils need to rediscover emotion
Take one look at the box score from the men's basketball team's 66-61 loss to Virginia in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament semifinals and two things stand out.
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Take one look at the box score from the men's basketball team's 66-61 loss to Virginia in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament semifinals and two things stand out.
The wrestling team ended its season with a sixth-place finish at the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, March 4-5 in Charlottesville, Va., but freshman Dan Covatta fared well enough to advance to the NCAA Championships as an at-large entrant.
Senior Day `94 basketball supplement
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Several white towels were strewn across the floor of the Leon County Civic Center before Wednesday night's men's basketball game against Florida State. The leaky roof of the arena was letting some of the day's abundant precipitation fall onto the playing surface, and the towels were there for damage control.
CHAPEL HILL -- North Carolina brought its best-ever wrestling team out Tuesday night to face the underdog Blue Devils, and Duke responded with maybe its best match of the year.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- For being one of the hottest and most intriguing non-conference men's basketball rivalries in the country, the Duke-Michigan series is awfully one-sided.
When the final point was scored in Kentucky's Memorial Coliseum in the volleyball team's surprising annihilation of the 12th-ranked Wildcats in the NCAA tournament Sunday, Duke players and coaches celebrated loudly on the court, and with good reason.
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Don't expect the 20th-ranked volleyball team to be invited back to the state of Kentucky any time soon.
The Road to the Final Four begins this week, but there is still some unfinished business for the football team.
By the time Saturday morning came around, the Yale and Duke cross country teams were ready to race.
In most intercollegiate athletic events, the competitors don't meet face-to-face until it's time to do battle. This weekend, though, the members of the Duke men's and women's cross country teams won't have to wait until race time to meet their opponents from Yale. In fact, all they'll have to do is wake up in the morning.
Two days after the football team's gut-wrenching 39-38 loss to Rutgers the questions still linger about the fourth-quarter collapses that have characterized the team's play the last few seasons.
Head football coach Barry Wilson said Tuesday that, though he thought that his Duke team did not play up to its offensive or defensive potential in its season opening 45-7 loss to Florida State last Saturday, the Blue Devils are by no means ready to push the panic button.
For most of the 26,800 fans in the bleachers of Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday during the football team's disheartening loss to top-ranked Florida State, there weren't many positives to draw from the 45-7 thrashing unless you were clad in the garnet and gold of FSU.
Volleyball coach Jon Wilson said that he has never seen as high a hitting percentage by a team as he saw this weekend during the Blue Devil's season-opening round-robin tournament in Georgia.
The top-ranked football team in the country is visiting Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday to play the Blue Devils, but you wouldn't know it by the ticket sales for the game.
At last, it's game week for the football team.
The scene has been repeated many times over the last three years during Duke field hockey games at the West Campus Turf Field.