Cameron Chronicles Season 5, Episode 15: 'Something crazy'
(02/17/22 9:05pm)
Duke knocked off Wake Forest Tuesday, but the last few days have sure been a whirlwind for the program.
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Duke knocked off Wake Forest Tuesday, but the last few days have sure been a whirlwind for the program.
As Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby said, all that you can do in winter is “stare out the window and wait for spring.” The calendar may still say winter, but baseball is back, and this Duke team has a lot to be excited about this season. The Blue Devils will have to replace the offense of Michael Rothenberg, Ethan Murray, Joey Loperfido and Peter Matt, but they return Chris Crabtree, RJ Schreck and Graham Pauley, the last player in that list being someone who head coach Chris Pollard praised in the team’s preseason media day. On the bump, Jack Carey has gone on to pro ball and Henry Williams will miss the season after undergoing Tommy John surgery, but it is likely that Cooper Stinson will once again be the Friday starter with last year’s closer Marcus Johnson and sophomore Luke Fox likely rounding out the weekend trio. Additionally, the freshman class for this year is loaded, checking in at ninth in the national recruiting rankings. -Jake Piazza
Sports are a matter of inches. Duke’s battle with Wake Forest showed that time and time again, the last time being in the closing moments.
In their four full seasons as a team, Duke softball has improved by leaps and bounds, but so have a lot of its ACC foes. The Blue Devils battled their way to the ACC Championship last season, yet were ranked fourth in the conference this preseason behind Florida State, Clemson and Virginia Tech. The good news: Duke is as primed as it's ever been. Accolades abound for multiple of the team’s more experienced members who make up the core of the superb pitching staff and improved lineup, including Softball America top-100 preseason selections for pitchers Peyton St. George and Shelby Walters and infielder Deja Davis. This young program has shown flashes of brilliance beyond its years; what comes now is building consistency and confidence to prolong them in the face of big-time pressure. -Molly Honecker
It's Duke against North Carolina. Coach K's last time in the Dean Dome. Hubert Davis' first time as head coach in the rivalry. Should we go on? As ESPN basketball analyst Jay Bilas says, this matchup always delivers, and our beats did their best at predicting the outcome of the first installment of this year's series. Saturday's game is set to tip off at 7 p.m. in Chapel Hill.
Round one of arguably the greatest rivalry in all of sports is here.
Bobby Hurley played at Duke from 1989-1993, winning two NCAA Championships in 1991 and 1992 and earned Most Outstanding Player honors for his performance in the latter. He competed in some of the most iconic games in Duke history, including several grueling contests against rival North Carolina. Last Wednesday, The Chronicle spoke with the now-Arizona State head coach about his college career and his memories of the Duke-North Carolina rivalry.
Duke announced Monday afternoon that its game against Notre Dame will be played Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. in South Bend, Ind.
Upset losses across the AP Top 25 have shuffled the rankings since last week, as Duke falls to No. 8. Here are our thoughts on the rest of college basketball and how the newest rankings look:
Sunday’s star-studded Empire Invitational pitted two of Duke’s top 2022 recruits against each other in a down-to-the-wire midseason event in New York.
Less than a week into his tenure as Duke football’s head coach, Mike Elko had the responsibility of welcoming a new batch of Blue Devils to the program as he hopes to reinvigorate its identity.
Less than a week after many believed Duke had put the finishing touches on a landmark recruiting season for incoming head coach Jon Scheyer, the Blue Devils got the nod from another class of 2022 prospect.
Texas A&M defensive coordinator Mike Elko will fill the head coaching vacancy for Duke football, as first reported by Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports Friday evening and announced by the program minutes after.
Following Duke's colossal win against then-No. 1 Gonzaga Friday night, men's basketball beat writers Evan Kolin, Jonathan Levitan, Alex Jackson and Micah Hurewitz run through their general reactions, players who stood out and what to watch for ahead of the Blue Devils' ACC/Big Ten Challenge matchup at Ohio State Tuesday night. Video by Sasha Richie.
No. 1 Duke is on the road Tuesday for its first true away game of the season against Ohio State. This was supposed to be a ranked matchup heading into the year, but the Buckeyes have dropped two games already. That being said, the Blue Devils will have a tall task in front of them as three-point favorites to avoid the upset in Columbus, Ohio.
After Sunday afternoon's news that Duke football head coach David Cutcliffe's time with the program has come to an end, let's take the time to appreciate some of the longtime coach's finest accomplishments with the Blue Devils. With that, the Blue Zone presents our list of Cutcliffe's top five moments in his 14 years at Duke:
Every football game, our beat writers Cam Polo, Jake Piazza, Max Rego, Alex Jackson, Micah Hurewitz and Jonathan Levitan will be here to give you their picks for Duke's upcoming matchup, and we'll keep track of their prediction records every week. This is Duke's last game of the 2021 season, and it enters this one against Miami as 21-point underdogs.
No. 5 Duke has a marquee matchup at 10:30 p.m. Friday against No. 1 Gonzaga, who is an 8.5-point favorite, and this contest almost has too many storylines to count. There's the freshman matchup of Paolo Banchero versus Chet Holmgren, the battle down low between Mark Williams and Drew Timme and the dueling point guards of Jeremy Roach and Andrew Nembhard. And that's not even all of them. Here's who our beats think will come out on top.
Another week of college basketball has come and gone, meaning that it's time for another installment of the Blue Zone's thoughts on the latest AP Poll. This week, Duke crept up a few spots to set up a top-five matchup Friday night:
It’s still early, but Duke has taken it into high gear.