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With Thursday night's 2017 NBA Draft approaching, four of The Chronicle’s editors in the sports department share their thoughts on landing spots for the top four Blue Devil prospects in this year’s draft class, as well as their predictions on how the lottery selections will shake out later this week in Brooklyn.
CAMDEN, N.J.—The colors on the floor were familiar for Amile Jefferson.
After being crowned as the ACC individual champion in April and coming up just one shot short of a chance at an NCAA title last month, Leona Maguire was rolling.
Eight players, nearly 81 percent of last year’s total minutes played, more than three-quarters of the team’s scoring offense and a trio of top-10 recruits are all gone.
Last week, ESPN college basketball analyst and former Blue Devil Jay Bilas criticized Pittsburgh on Twitter for restricting guard Cameron Johnson from transferring to another ACC school. Bilas extended his criticisms to Duke’s treatment of former quarterback Thomas Sirk, who was not allowed to transfer to any team on Duke’s schedule next year and eventually settled on East Carolina.
With five ACC title game appearances, two conference titles and a pair of College World Series appearances, there arguably has been no program in the league more dominant than Florida State in the last eight seasons.
A year ago, Duke—even with a 14-15 ACC mark—was well on its way to an NCAA tournament appearance thanks to 33 regular-season wins.
When Duke faced its Tobacco Road rivals exactly one month ago in Chapel Hill, the third-ranked Tar Heels thoroughly dominated the Blue Devils despite dropping the doubles point en route to a 5-2 victory.
With their most important ACC series on the horizon, the Blue Devils made the short trip to Greenville, N.C. Wednesday night, looking to maintain the momentum they gained with a 9-0 rout of Campbell Tuesday.
In the 120-plus year history of the Penn Relays, the renowned competition has seen its fair share of Olympians as well as top collegiate and high school athletes grace the track at Franklin Field.
Since trailing 6-1 at then-No. 16 North Carolina three weeks ago, Duke has been as hot offensively as any team in the country. But Saturday in Milwaukee, the Blue Devils faced a second-half deficit, trailing 6-5 against an unranked Marquette side that entered the weekend without a victory against a team currently in the top 20.
Recently, Duke has seen its fair share of siblings play together. The three Plumlee brothers excelled on Coach K Court, Deondre and Dylan Singleton patrolled the secondary at Wallace Wade Stadium last fall, Robin and Lauren Blazing helped the Blue Devils’ field hockey team to a 2015 Final Four appearance and Leona and Lisa Maguire have kept women’s golf among the nation’s best programs.
A little less than two months ago, the Blue Devils suffered two losses in their first four games and looked like they might once again have to cope with inconsistent play from their defense and midfield lines.
With one of the ACC’s worst pitching staffs slated to face a lineup featuring three of the top 100 professional prospects in all of baseball, the Blue Devils’ midseason exhibition contest had all the makings of a potential thrashing.
A little more than halfway through its season, Duke had yet to show itself as the same team that earned an NCAA tournament bid for the first time in more than half a century last year.
Amile Jefferson
There were three walks, two singles, one hit batter and a wild pitch leading to five runs.
Harry Giles
A year ago at this exact point, the Atlantic Coast Conference had just made history—six of its teams were among the final 16 sides in the 2016 NCAA tournament.
GREENVILLE, S.C.—After his team warded off Troy to win by 22 despite a few defensive lapses, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski made an observation that seemed prophetic when the Blue Devils’ season came to a crashing end Sunday night.
