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After suffering their third loss on a game's final play over the last 15 games, the Blue Devils must have had just one question on their minds following Saturday's tilt at Navy-how did we lose?
On Tuesday, the reporters at Duke's weekly press conference were excited to speak with head coach Ted Roof following the team's first victory in nearly two years over Northwestern.
Practice might be a head coach's best measuring stick for identifying game starters because, after all, practice makes perfect.
After suffering an embarrassing 23-3 loss to Wyoming last weekend, Virginia head coach Al Groh was disappointed in the team's performance considering he returned 18 starters from a year ago.
Following arguably Duke's most winnable game this season, the stat sheet seemed to suggest that the Blue Devil defense was largely to blame for Saturday's blowout loss to Connecticut. Instead, the game's deciding factor was found in a less obvious statistical category-field position.
After a disappointing 0-12 finish last season, Duke's offense cited its extreme inexperience as the root of its struggles. Now, with a year of play under their belts, the Blue Devils return their entire line-up and are hoping their improved chemistry will translate into more wins.
Heading into his fourth full year as Duke's head coach, Ted Roof is hoping to steer the Blue Devils out of the bottom of the ACC. Duke finished 0-12 last season and has lost its last 22 games against Division IA opponents. Football beat writer Matthew Iles sat down with Roof at the squad's annual Meet the Blue Devils event where hundreds of fans turned out to show their support for the team.
After losing in the NCAA semifinals during her freshman and sophomore seasons, Caroline Cryer and the rest of the Blue Devils were just 20 minutes away from earning the school's first ever national championship appearance in May.
Johns Hopkins
Taped up all around the Duke locker room, self-made flyers remind the Blue Devils what they have been through and what they need to do to succeed in the future.
When North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper announced that three former Duke lacrosse players were exonerated of all charges levied against them a year ago, the whole program gave a long-awaited sigh of relief.
After playing three games in seven days a week ago, No. 5 Duke (6-2) will face No. 12 Delaware (6-2) Friday and Bellarmine (1-6) Saturday, with both games starting at 3 p.m. in Koskinen Stadium.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - After dropping its second game of the season to No. 1 Cornell Tuesday, No. 5 Duke (6-2) produced enough offense to erase a two-goal halftime deficit for a 6-4 victory over No. 7 Georgetown (4-2) Saturday.
With the pressure of last year's season-long suspension still weighing heavily on Duke, the Blue Devils feel they have something to prove. And nothing would prove more than winning the National Championship.
After a failed comeback against Loyola resulted in the team's first loss of the season a week earlier in San Diego, No. 4 Duke returned to North Carolina and successfully rallied to defeat No. 13 North Carolina 9-7 Saturday in Chapel Hill.
After impressively disposing of ACC-rival Maryland in an emotional road game Friday, the Blue Devils are gearing up again for a contest against winless St. Joseph's (0-3) today at 3 p.m. in Koskinen Stadium.
After playing its season-opener in front of the second-largest crowd in school history last Saturday, No. 2 Duke will play on the road for the first time in 10 months tonight.
In Sean McNally's first year as Duke's head coach, the team went 15-40 and finished second to last in the ACC. One year later, McNally's Blue Devils are 6-0 and crushing the competition.
Duke amassed 16 runs on 22 hits in the third game of its series sweep of Saint Bonaventure, but the team's solid pitching and defense were the keys to its 16-4 win at Jack Coombs Field Sunday.
Despite having to carry the nation's longest active losing streak through the winter off-season, the Blue Devils have plenty to look forward to next fall.
