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With winter in full force, a substantial portion of the student body huddles outside Wilson Recreation Center looking for new and inventive ways to avoid the ever-present dangers of freezing to death or drowning in rain-flooded tents.
17-1, a new Duke record.
Perhaps one of the most interesting thing about sports is all the fun little coincidences that arise.
As most of the student body enjoyed the opportunity to relax and recover from first semester, a large portion of the track team took the opportunity to open their 2001 campaign.
With 7:42 remaining in the first half, the Cameron crowd did something that it probably has not done too many times in Duke history-it cheered for the opposition.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>PHILADELPHIA - Duke did a lot of things well to produce a 25-point victory against a Temple team that almost pulled off an upset the last time the two teams met. The Blue Devils dominated the entire game, but anyone who watched, played in, or for that matter, heard about Saturday's spanking of Temple can tell you the key to victory. "We shot the ball really well," coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "I'm not sure about the percentage, but we shot the ball really well. We played great, and we shot the ball incredibly. We're not going to be able to shoot like that every time." If Duke was that consistent, it would be time to pick up your 2000-2001 NCAA Championship T-shirt. The Blue Devils opened the game by connecting on eight of their first 12 threes, which would be a perfectly reasonable percentage were this game being played on your Sega Dreamcast. Duke finished the first half 11-for-18 from behind the arc, impressing everyone in attendance. "This is as good of an outside shooting team as I have ever had," Krzyzewski said. The Blue Devils' shooters deserve the lion's share of the credit for Saturday's blowout, but a change in Temple's strategy made the shooting performance possible. In the final of the preseason NIT, Temple focused its defense around putting pressure on Duke's perimeter game. With the Owls' defense spread out, Carlos Boozer wreaked havoc on the inside totaling 26 points on only 14 shots. Determined not to make the same mistake twice, Temple turned its efforts to controlling the paint. "We concentrated our efforts on cutting off the inside," Temple coach John Chaney said. "We shut [Boozer] down by sending someone underneath [when he got the ball]." The Owls' defensive attack proved successful in taking Boozer out of the game offensively. The sophomore finished with eight points for the game, taking only six shots. Unfortunately for Temple, shutting down the inside proved to be a Pyrrhic victory. "They tried to take Boozer out of the game, which they did," Krzyzewski said. "But we are a good shooting team." Boozer did not force bad shots against the double-team, and rather than consistently trying to force the ball inside, the Blue Devils spread the floor and found each other open for the trifecta. "They spread with four or five guys," Chaney said. "Then they hit their shots. We had to give them something. You've got five fingers and they've got six parts." Jason Williams was the biggest beneficiary of Temple's shift in focus. The sophomore came out on fire, connecting on all six of the threes he attempted in the first half. Williams had 22 points before the break, 16 of which came in the final nine minutes. That nine-minute stretch extended Duke's lead from five to 22 and put the game out of contention. Williams went 2-for-4 from behind the arc in the second half and finished the game with a career-high, and team-leading, 30 points. "Jason has improved in every way," Krzyzewski said. "He's in better shape, he's making better decisions and he's keeping his feet under him [when he shoots]. Jason is one of the top players in the country and he is still learning about the game." Krzyzewski added that he thought Duhon's ability to relieve Williams of some of the ball-handling duties and the responsibility of guarding the dangerous Lynn Greer were major factors in Williams' shooting performance. Whatever the cause of the three-point barrage, the result was evident. Temple's players looked like punch-drunk fighters, and a large portion of the record-breaking crowd was already in its cars by the time the game finally reached a conclusion that seemed inevitable since late in the opening frame. Afterwards, Krzyzewski said the Blue Devils were finally playing up to their ability level. But he was not letting the performance lead him to place this team among the greats in Duke history. John Chaney, not one to shy from hyperbole, drew more dramatic conclusions. "I don't know what you what you guys are seeing," he said. "They just tore us apart. They handed us our heads. This is a very special group that you saw tonight. "I've never seen a team as good as this team."
WINSTON-SALEM - From the outset, there was a feeling that Friday was not going to be the Blue Devils' night.
You just might begin to notice a theme developing here.
So how good are the Tar Heels?
Ask the casual sports fan to name one player for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, and you will almost certainly get the same answer every time-Robert O'Kelley.
Thankfully, the single greatest abomination possible in Western civilization has been brought to a close with the end of the Subway Series. We'll ignore for a second the fact that it produced the worst possible result-a Yankees victory.
Cream always rises to the top; sometimes it just takes a little more time than you expect.
Taking a cue from a John Mellencamp tour schedule, the men's and women's cross country teams followed up last week's appearance in South Bend, Ind. by competing in Saturday's Pre-National Invitational in Ames, Iowa.
RALEIGH - Returning to ACC play after back-to-back wins over non-conference opponents, the 25th-ranked men's soccer team (8-4, 3-1 in the ACC) faced off against N.C. State Sunday. In a very physical game, Duke shutout the Wolfpack (1-8-3, 0-5) to win 7-0 at the Method Road Soccer Complex in Raleigh. "I think we're doing very well now, we've won a couple of games here, it's just that we can't afford any more losses," Duke coach John Rennie said. "Our destiny is still in our own hands." The first half remained very competitive, with the Blue Devils managing to score only once against a determined Wolfpack defense. The first goal came 24 minutes into the game, when senior Ali Curtis maneuvered the ball into the net off an assist from fellow senior Robert Russell during a scramble in State's penalty box. The goal was Curtis' 48th of his career, placing him just three shy of the school record for career goals. The second half opened looking as though it might continue along the same lines as the first, but quickly developed into a very different game. Six minutes into the half, junior Scott Noble knocked a header into the goal off senior Nii-Amar Amamoo's throw-in during another scramble. "Scoring that second goal that way, all of a sudden the ball's in the goal and you wonder what happened," Rennie said. "That took a lot out of N.C. State." The low morale of the Wolfpack immediately became apparent as the Blue Devils dominated the possession of the ball for the remainder of the game. Constantly on the offensive, with players open near the net, it was only a matter of time before Duke scored again. Through sheer desperation, fatigued Wolfpack players held off the attack for another 15 minutes before a wave of fresh players off the Blue Devil bench overcame them. "We knew they were gonna come out real hard, and before the game we made it a goal to try and run them into the ground," freshman forward Danny Wymer said. "I think we did a real good job in the first half, making them tired, and fresh legs in the second half really made the difference." It was a difference Wymer himself was able to capitalize on, scoring his first career goal just four minutes after he entered the game in the second half, and again off a penalty kick 12 minutes later. Duke's bench continued to dominate the match, denying N.C. State an opportunity to develop its offensive game. The Wolfpack never sent more than three players across midfield in the second half, and attempted only three shots in the entire game. The only breaks from the constant barrage of the Blue Devil attack occurred when frustrated defenders booted the ball across the field to gain brief respites from Duke and the sweltering heat. "It was a very hot day, and we used our bench well," Rennie said, noting that the bench accounted for five goals and three assists. Austin Fath contributed to this story.
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The Blue Devils lost, again.
It is safe to say that the men's cross country team's performance this weekend at the Fordham invitational was a resounding success.
If there are any lingering effects from a disappointing opening weekend in Connecticut, the men's soccer team (2-2) did not show them as it trounced Long Island and Butler this weekend to win the Duke-adidas Soccer Classic.
In a 38-0 loss no one did their job well-no one.
It probably goes without saying that when you are the starting quarterback for the defending national champions on a college campus obsessed with football, you will attract a great deal of attention from the opposite sex. Thus, it should come as no surprise that, numerous times last spring, attractive coeds cosied up to Chris Weinke and asked if he would be interested in going out... with their mom.
