New ACC opponent up next
(02/03/05 5:00am)
When the women"s basketball team heads to Miami today the Blue Devils will be entering uncharted territory.
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When the women"s basketball team heads to Miami today the Blue Devils will be entering uncharted territory.
Monique Currie may call this year her last at Duke and jump to the WNBA. The junior wing, who red-shirted the 2002-03 season with a knee injury, will graduate this spring with a year of basketball eligibility remaining.
RALEIGH — Duke has been advertising Monique Currie as a Player-of-the-Year candidate all season, and Currie has shown she deserves that accolade during the past three games.
The women?s basketball team managed to pull away down the stretch in a tough battle against Maryland Thursday night.
Apparently, one half of effort is enough for the women"s basketball team to beat run-of-the-mill ACC foes.
Most Duke students swiftly departed campus after final exams for a month of unwinding. The women"s basketball team used its time off more productively than the majority of the student body, tallying 13 consecutive victories dating back to mid-November on their way to earning the No.1 ranking.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A shorthanded Duke squad knew it would have its hands full against No. 10 Notre Dame in the semifinals of the preseason NIT Wednesday night. The game lived up to its billing as the Fighting Irish exploited a worn-down Blue Devil unit at the end of an emotional contest to notch the early-season victory.
Fittingly, it was senior Erin Noble who punctuated the Duke win with an untouched kill on the final point Tuesday night.
Duke’s seniors will suit up to play for one last time in Cameron Indoor Stadium tonight. With ACC Tournament seeding on the line, the volleyball team faces Wake Forest in its final home match of the at 7 p.m.
At this time last year, Georgia Tech was flying under the radar, excluded from preseason hype. The Yellow Jackets, however, quickly entered the national mix with a 12-0 start that catapulted the team to No. 3 in the country.
Listen up and listen closely Blue Devil fans. The player formerly known as Mistie Bass will now go by Mistie Williams, after her August wedding to Kenneth Williams.
The Blue Devils will count on David McClure to lead his team to many victories during his career at Duke—but not necessarily right away, and not in the ways normally expected of recruits coming to Durham.
With Alana Beard in attendance and Lindsey Harding’s suspension looming over the team, Jessica Foley stole the show, leading No. 6 Duke to an easy 91-62 victory against the EA Sports All-Stars Wednesday night.
Andrew Giuliani is coming to Duke next fall—to play golf. Yes, this is the same Andrew Giuliani whose father served two terms as mayor of New York City, the same Andrew Giuliani who Chris Farley parodied on Saturday Night Live in 1994 for mocking his father at the mayoral inauguration.
Coming into Friday night’s game, the volleyball team was riding high after a pair of conference victories and a rise into a second-place tie in the ACC. Duke’s next two opponents, Virginia and Maryland, were teams that the Blue Devils had already beaten at home this season. The outlook was optimistic heading into the season’s home stretch.
Having to bounce back from a loss for the first time all season, the Blue Devils did not generate a goal through the first 45 minutes of action Wednesday night. When a Georgia State player picked up a pair of yellow cards, Duke took advantage, scoring four second-half goals.
When Duke began play Tuesday it had full round plus the end of the second to catch Northwestern. With four holes remaining in Tuesday's final round it appeared as if Duke might complete the comeback, but the team faltered over the final holes and finished in second.
Ryan Blaum and Nathan Smith are the All-American candidates that are supposed to be leading the Blue Devils, but during Monday's opening round, it was a trio of freshman who catapulted Duke in second place. Officials suspended play in the second round because of darkness and the tournament will conclude Tuesday.