Men get top seed in East
(03/08/99 5:00am)
CHARLOTTE - All season long Duke has been trying to return the basketball program to its levels of the early '90s.
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CHARLOTTE - All season long Duke has been trying to return the basketball program to its levels of the early '90s.
CHARLOTTE - Finally, when the Christian Laettners and Grant Hills return to Durham next fall for pickup ball, they won't be able to ask the current Blue Devils why they don't have any banners.
CHARLOTTE - Take away a National Player of the Year candidate, and it turns out Duke was still too much for the rest of the ACC.
CHARLOTTE - Duke was expected to beat Virginia last night.
CHARLOTTE - The men's basketball team entered its ACC tournament opener last night bearing several similarities to last year's squad but with one important difference.
When Joe Alleva took over as Duke's athletic director a year ago, he knew the situation he was facing.
For teams whose NCAA fates are pretty well set, conference tournaments represent a bit of a strange situation.
CHAPEL HILL - By the time fans in the Dean Smith Center started heading for the exits with a few minutes left Saturday night, it was difficult to decide which of the top-ranked men's basketball team's accomplishments was bigger.
CHAPEL HILL - And to think Shane Battier almost wasn't missed.
Quality was certainly more important than quantity for the women's track team at the ECACs in Boston this weekend.
CHAPEL HILL - This wasn't the way Ademola Okulaja expected to finish his career in the Smith Center.
No player has emerged as much on the women's basketball team this season as Michele VanGorp. The 6-foot-6 post player has improved her scoring from just over 10 points from last year to over 17 now. An offense that took Duke to the Final Eight last year has been retooled to take advantage of VanGorp's strong play inside. VanGorp and coach Gail Goestenkors took a few minutes this past week to talk about the Michigan native's improved play, her thoughts about the future and life on campus as a women's basketball star. Interviews conducted by Joel Israel.
The same flu epidemic that spread around campus over the past few weeks made its way to the track teams this weekend, limiting Duke's performance at the 1999 ACC Indoor Track and Field Championships in Blacksburg, Va.
It's a story that seems almost too perfect.
What would you honestly expect of a senior who plays for one of the best women's basketball teams in the country and yet sees the court for less time than anyone else?
Life certainly isn't the same anymore for the women's golf team. Let your best player sink a 40-foot putt in her sport's biggest event and all of a sudden people are beating down your door.
The Renaissance continues for Carl Franks and the football team.
Before last night, Maryland star Steve Francis supposedly had a picture of Chris Carrawell taped to the door of his locker to remind him of Duke's win in College Park last month.
At two different times last night, the wrestling team looked like it was about to wrap up an upset of UNC-Greensboro in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
A team has to be pretty good if it is two thirds of the way through its season with only one loss and nobody is surprised.