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It did not take long for the men's and women's swimming teams to get back in the swing of things after their six week break when they hosted Davidson Saturday. The weaker competition did not hurt, either.
Until a statement ACC win by the men's basketball team last night at Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke's two No. 1-ranked teams had had a shakier grasp on the top of the polls than a couple of hands on cocktail glasses for happy hour at a retirement home.
The women's basketball team beat Tennessee this weekend at a neutral site, reaffirmed its place at the top of the country, took the day off and is headed to the Caribbean.
Preseason accolades and a feature in this week's Sports Illustrated were clearly not enough to satisfy Alana Beard, who gave East Carolina a wake-up call Friday night-and it didn't even take long.
Sometimes almost isn't enough.
In the second half of the women's basketball team's torching of Team Concept last night, Sheana Mosch forced a jump shot in traffic as Duke started to lose a bit of focus with a fifty-point lead. The senior forward clenched her fists, letting out a growl, a huff and a puff, but not before wiping her grimace off to go give her teammate at the foul line a high five.
"There are a lot of people who think that Florida State has tremendous potential. And I just happen to be one of them," new Seminole head coach Leonard Hamilton said. "So I don't feel like I'm Sherlock Holmes, where I just discover something that not a whole lot of people have been thinking over the years."
After a rainy and relatively inactive October, the women's golf team didn't have much to write home about in an up-and-down fall season. But after returning from her home continent to rejoin the reigning national champions, Virada Nirapathpongporn cast a beam of sunshine on her awakened team to close out the early season.
Maybe it's the scarves given away as a promotion Wednesday night. Maybe it's the thrill of playing on Senior Night. Maybe it's a new offensive formation. Maybe it's just the cold weather. Whatever it is, Duke is starting to heat up.
As Parents' Weekend nears, so too does a crowded Wallace Wade Stadium, chock-full of ear-to-ear smiles and three-person arm embraces as mom and dad reunite with their son or daughter while Duke takes on Maryland in the background. Then maybe it's for the best that Randy Earle is just staying home.
The men's soccer team's road trip to Charlottesville, Va., Sunday might as well have been a journey on the high seas, with the No. 18 Blue Devils riding strong and fast behind three straight wins towards a potential ACC championship.
Just as Jordan Cila softly skidded a pass, calm as could be, through two aggressive Campbell defenders last night at Koskinen Stadium, Blake Camp nonchalantly wandered up to the edge of the penalty box, only to find a soccer ball waiting there for him, begging him to fire it in and shut up a loud Campbell goalie.
Desperate times called for desperate measures for Kelly McCain this Sunday. After the sophomore women's tennis star breezed through four Top-25 players and basked in her dominance and the California sun for the entire weekend, something had to give by the end of the westward trip.
Maybe they don't care much for math, but the field hockey team wants to do anything but add this weekend. Fifty-six is the magic number for consecutive losses Duke has piled up over the last 19 years at the hands of North Carolina, but they do not want a part of any numbers except those on the scoreboard Saturday afternoon when the No. 12 Blue Devils (7-3, 0-1 in the ACC) host the No. 7 Tar Heels (6-4, 1-1) at Williams Field at 1 p.m.
Frank Sinatra called Chicago "one town that won't let you down. It's my kind of town." Well, the men's golf team certainly didn't come home disappointed, though it was Northwestern's town this week. The Wildcats blew away the second-place Blue Devils and the rest of the field as the Windom Memorial Classic wrapped up Tuesday at the Glen View Club in Glenview, Ill., a mere 20 miles from the Windy City.
Diminutive senior Trevor Perea may have been the big man with his golden goal against Clemson Saturday, but a pint-sized, pimply-faced freshman and his classmates are starting to fill some big shoes of their own for the ACC's newest power, the 20th-ranked men's soccer team.
If nothing else, at least they're in touch with nature.
