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With 75 seconds remaining in last night's blowout over Virginia, Olga Gvozdenovic made a layup to put Duke up by 25 points, eliciting wild cheers from a dozen or so fans in the front row of Cameron Indoor Stadium who had painted "We love Olga" on their torsos.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.- Pete Gillen was not expecting much of a valentine from the Blue Devils last night. But after suffering a 42-point loss earlier in the season at Cameron Indoor Stadium, everything came up roses last night for Virginia (17-6, 6-6 in the ACC). Virginia became the second team in two weeks to down the Blue Devils (22-3, 10-2) in a last-second, 91-89 win at University Hall. Perhaps more strikingly, the Cavaliers brought the nation's longest consecutive-road-win record to an end at 24.
It was not her fault.
For over a decade, it has been the grand bluff of state politics.
In his first season as an assistant coach, Mike Brey went straight to the top. Less than a year into his college career, he found himself at the Final Four.
Seventeen-and-a-half to two-and-a-half.
WINSTON-SALEM - Clemson coach Jim Davis called it the addition of subtraction.
To top things off, his opponent is one of the top-10 teams in the nation.
It was an atypical afternoon back in the middle of December when the Blue Devils went to Littlejohn Colliseum and found themselves down by five points at halftime. It was even more atypical when they left, suffering a merciless 18-point loss to Clemson, their first and only loss, in their first ACC game of the season.
Duke freshman Vicki Krapohl has never played college basketball at North Carolina.
Even though Lloyd Axworthy and Madeline Albright are no longer their respective countries' top diplomats, they remain very good friends. In fact, during Axworthy's tenure as Canada's foreign minister from 1996 until last October, the two would often slip away to dine and chat casually, without the hassle of aides, at many of the international functions and conferences. The two contemporaries, who share similar viewpoints, struck up an especially warm relationship, despite Axworthy's often prickly positions on the U.S. embargo against Cuba and American missile defense.
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In most parts of the country, there is no looking forward to the dreary grays of winter. Then there is Duke, where the 12-degree nights and the occasional snow flurries are always a welcome change to the temperate days of late summer and early fall. It is one of the rare places in the country that lives for the month of November, the one month that simultaneously brings an often-merciful end to football season and marks the dawn of another possible run at the Final Four. There are, of course, the few loyalists, the football diehards who either remember the glory days of football seasons long since past, or who dream of a new glory yet to come. They are rare around here, especially this time of year, when they are vastly outnumbered by the crowds of tents parked in front of the Wilson Recreation Center. But they do exist, and they do not spend their summer and fall waiting for November.
There's a different tempo to women's basketball than men's basketball. There's a different rhythm, there are different plays and different rules, different issues and different players. They are different sports.
After committing an atypical 12 first-half turnovers, Duke found itself only four points up at halftime against a speedy and tenacious Boston College team.
A little over a month since tight ends coach Joe DeLamielleure was fired, it had also became clear that his son, junior Todd DeLamielleure would transfer. DeLamielleure becomes the third major football player to transfer from Duke in the two-year tenure of coach Carl Franks.
Not Georgia Schweitzer. Not in this game. And certainly not at Cameron Indoor Stadium. After last night's matchup against Georgia Tech, a local reporter asked Schweitzer if at any point in the game, she was "scared." "Scared?" Schweitzer repeated in a tone conveying a sense of incredulity that anyone would ever get that impression. "I wouldn't call it scared," she stressed. "I just give them a lot of credit for fighting back. I was pretty confident the whole time we would win the game. We had the momentum a lot of the time." Without betraying her trademark cool demeanor, Schweitzer knew Duke was in trouble. With 34 seconds remaining in the second half, her team was up only by three points, 84-81, a lead that had mysteriously dwindled from 15 as the game clock ticked down toward zero. Knowing one more bucket could put the game away, she caught a pass from Michele Matyasovsky inside the lane and shot. It would be the last of only three misses Schweitzer had on the night. That shot was sandwiched in between 31 seconds that saw Georgia Tech power forward Jamie Kruppa hit two free throws and win two battles on the glass. Rochelle Parent, who scored three times with her trademark inside drives, had fouled out. Seventeen seconds later, Milli Martinez hit a layup on the other side of the court, bringing the game within a point for the unranked Yellow Jackets. Schweitzer did not pout or panic. When Georgia Tech intentionally fouled Alana Beard with eight seconds to go, Beard, calm and cool, knocked down two free throws, forcing a last-second three-point burden on a team that had hit only four shots from behind the arc last night. Predictably, the Yellow Jackets crumbled under a superb eight seconds of Duke defense and the Blue Devils escaped with the win. But for the recently anointed point guard, Schweitzer controlled Cameron Indoor Stadium as much as anyone last night. A bookend to Rochelle Parent, who can light up the team with emotion in a jam, Schweitzer can light up her team with patience and focus. "I wasn't pleased with our defense in any way, shape or form," Duke coach Gail Goestenkors said after the game before adding about her team's inside game, "That's something we have to work on." Having taken two early fouls, Iciss Tillis went on to get only five rebounds, two points off only five shots and two more fouls, while Kruppa was tearing up the boards and putting it in the bucket. Without a true center, Duke has had to effectively use Tillis inside throughout the season, but last night even she struggled and was pulled early. Enter Schweitzer, who made some trips into the lane against Kruppa and came out with six rebounds, all of which were defensive rebounds. And she also recorded a steal. Meanwhile, she shined on the offense as well, where she had a lot more company, Beard could not miss in the first half and finished the night with 29 points. But Schweitzer hit nine shots in 12 attempts. Of those 12 attempts, four were from beyond the arc and three of them made it through the rim. On a night when Duke knocked down only five treys, her outside presence gave Duke an extra dimension that made Georgia Tech at least give a nod of the hat to the perimeter instead of the lane and the post where the Yellow Jackets were more comfortable. She has already been ACC player of the year. It's true that with talent like Beard and Tillis coming in this season, she can be overshadowed at times. But even when a vital link like Beard of Tillis has an off game, Schweitzer has the versatility to make up for it. Nothing to get scared about. Unless you're Georgia Tech.
If it seems like Nate James has had a spring in his step lately, it's the literal truth.
CLEMSON, S.C. - For freshman Alana Beard, it was the first time she lost a game since her sophomore year of high school. For Clemson, it was a warning to the rest of the ACC that the Tigers cannot be taken for granted. For ninth-year coach Gail Goestenkors, it was a setback for what is still her most talented team yet at Duke.
She has only been at Duke for two seasons, but Jolene Nagel is already making a name for herself with the Blue Devils.
