A healthy Richa Jackson ready to step up for Duke women's basketball
(03/19/13 9:53am)
Richa Jackson knows what it’s like to have a season cut short by injury.
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Richa Jackson knows what it’s like to have a season cut short by injury.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—The Blue Devils did not have an answer for Joe Harris.
COLLEGE PARK, Md.—In her first game without teammate Chelsea Gray Friday, freshman guard Alexis Jones found herself on the bench less than two minutes in after picking up two quick fouls.
For the women’s soccer team, the Spring semester is usually a time for training, announcing the incoming freshman class and a few exhibition matches.
Coming into the 2013 season, Duke lost three 100-point scorers to graduation. Behind senior Makenzie Hommel’s 13 total goals this season, though, the Blue Devil offense hasn’t missed a beat.
For the third consecutive year, Duke will compete among the best teams in the nation at the ITA National Team Indoors.
After bouncing back from its first loss, Duke returns home this weekend to welcome two top-25 opponents in three matches.
The 2012 season ended abruptly for Kim DeCesare and Callie Simpkins.
Rasheed Sulaimon had a rough start. He went to the bench after letting Maryland’s Dez Wells score Maryland’s first seven points and grab five rebounds in the first four minutes.
STORRS, Conn.—For 20 minutes, Monday’s matchup looked just as compelling on the court as it did on paper: Two top-five teams battling back and forth, separated by just two points at the break.
The last time the Blue Devils entered Gampel Pavilion undefeated, they ran into Maya Moore. Connecticut’s eventual Naismith Award winner dropped 29 points to hand Duke its first loss—an 87-51 rout that began with the Huskies on a 23-2 run. Last year’s game wasn’t much different. The Huskies came to Cameron Indoor Stadium and took down a fifth-ranked Duke team 61-45.
Back from a season-opening win at Hawaii, the deepest Blue Devil team in years faces two in-state foes in its home opener.
When the line monitors—the students who oversee the Duke basketball tenting process—decided to prohibit formal tents for the 2013 black tenting season, they knew they were bringing back a popular rule, but they had no idea just how many Cameron Crazies would show up ready to take on the most difficult level of tenting.
After last year’s national championship game loss to Stanford, the Blue Devils looked to earn another shot at winning the national title at the start of this season, having lost no starters to graduation.
She came, she saw, she conquered.
2011-2012 Record: (13-18, 4-12 in the ACC)
After a slow start, the Blue Devils raised their level of play but could not put together a comeback against the Seminoles.
In the final regular season game of his career, James Belshaw earned a shutout, and the Blue Devils made sure not to waste it, recording their third win in four games.
After a drawn-out 18-month appeals process, Chris Tweed-Kent received the final word on his collegiate playing career. The NCAA had again denied him the opportunity to play a fourth season for the Blue Devils.
To bring the Countdown to Craziness festivities to a close Friday night, Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski introduced a new tradition for the Cameron Crazies.