Kennard's career-high 35 carry Duke men's basketball against Maine as Tatum, Bolden make regular-season debuts
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It was two in, two out for the Blue Devils Saturday afternoon.
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It was two in, two out for the Blue Devils Saturday afternoon.
No. 5 Duke has won four straight games and is set to face off against a Power-5 team for the first time since its only loss of the season against then-No. 7 Kansas when it hosts Michigan State Tuesday night at 9:30. The Blue Zone takes a look at a player from each team who could be a difference-maker in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge showdown:
After falling in the first round of last year's NCAA tournament as a No. 2 seed and graduating its top three scorers, Michigan State entered this season looking to rebound with help from the nation's third-best recruiting class. But less than a month after the Spartans opened the season ranked 12th in the country, Michigan State now sits unranked without a signature win against a top-25 opponent.
If a trio of 20-plus-point outbursts already were not enough to remind Blue Devil fans why Lexie Brown was an All-American at Maryland just two years ago, the 5-foot-9 guard made sure they remembered Tuesday night.
With Duke coming off the busiest and most challenging stretch of its nonconference schedule, the Blue Devils now return to Durham looking to stay hungry with two Thanksgiving break games.
Coming off its own high-profile upset during the most dramatic weekend of the college football season, the Panthers are hoping to avoid the lulls that have plagued them so far in ACC play.
Coming off a 103-99 overtime loss to then-No. 11 Indiana Friday evening, No. 7 Kansas will make the journey to Madison Square Garden Tuesday night to battle No. 1 Duke in the Champions Classic in New York. The teams have not played since 2013 at the same event—when Kansas pulled out a win led by Andrew Wiggins—so The Chronicle breaks down five aspects of the 12-time reigning Big 12 regular-season champions to get you ready for Tuesday's game.
Less than 24 hours after an impressive season-opening victory against Marist, the Blue Devils struggled to find their groove early, but cranked it up on both ends of the floor in the last 10 minutes of the half.
Ever since I moved to Philadelphia as a child, I have been obsessed with football. Each game is a mini-holiday—three hours I can separate from the rest of my life to engross myself in Eagles fanaticism.
On a night when he racked up six steals, Blue Devil senior Matt Jones did something he had not done since early in his Duke career.
In their first exhibition game last week, the Blue Devils got off to a slow start before turning on the jets.
ATLANTA—Through the first 30 minutes, the Blue Devils have marched up and down the field, racking up more than 340 yards of offense and moving into Georgia Tech territory on their first six possessions.
ATLANTA—With eight minutes to go and his Yellow Jackets trailing for the first time all afternoon, quarterback Justin Thomas rolled out to the right, backing up into his end zone.
Duke heads to Atlanta still searching for its first ACC win of the season Saturday at noon against Georgia Tech. The Blue Devils likely need a victory to stay in the hunt for a fifth straight bowl appearance, but they will need to contain the Yellow Jackets' explosive triple-option offense. The Blue Zone breaks down three keys to Saturday's matchup:
After earning just three victories from the beginning of September to the middle of October, Duke has rattled off three consecutive wins.
Before the Yellow Jackets’ 2014 loss to the Blue Devils in Atlanta, Georgia Tech had ripped off 10 straight victories against Duke and had not lost at home to its Coastal Division foe since 1994.
Haley Gorecki
When it was announced that Amile Jefferson would be out indefinitely with a right foot injury last December, Blue Devil fans began anxiously awaiting the 6-foot-9 forward’s return. Jefferson was in the midst of his best season since arriving in Durham—he set career highs in points, rebounds, assists and blocks while averaging a double-double during Duke’s first nine games last year.
N.C. State Wolfpack
For the third straight season, a former Blue Devil has lifted the WNBA championship trophy.