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ATLANTA - Any college basketball coach would agree that depth is a nice thing to have. But when wearing teams out with depth isn't the answer, it's even nicer to have a few offensive stars to carry a team by themselves.
ATLANTA - The first time Georgia Tech and Duke squared off in 1999, the game was over after just a few minutes, as the Blue Devils rolled to a 113-46 laugher.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Momentum can be a funny thing.
The end time is near.
RALEIGH - Some of the ACC's highest-scoring frontcourt players have found the points a little harder to come by against the women of Duke.
While most students were relaxing at home during the holiday break, Duke's women basketball players were doing something a little different: kicking butt from Durham all the way to California.
Owls tend to be nocturnal-they sleep during the day. Perhaps Temple's women's basketball players were emulating the habits of their mascot two months ago, thus missing the memo stating that Halloween would be held Oct. 31 again this year. That would explain why the Owls waited until Saturday afternoon to have their own day of horror inside Cameron Indoor Stadium. In a contest that got out of hand faster than an early season Kansas State football game, No. 16 Duke (7-4) dominated all phases of the game against visiting Temple (4-4) en route to a 112-34 victory-the most lopsided in the history of Duke's program. "Everybody, I thought, played well," said coach Gail Goestenkors in an obvious understatement. "This is one of the best games we've played both offensively and defensively." Riding some quick early buckets from Hilary Howard, Rochelle Parent and Peppi Browne, the Blue Devils embarked on a 14-0 run before the 1,122 in attendance even had time to settle in their seats. By the time the game was 12 minutes old, the margin was a jaw-dropping 40-3. After a three-pointer by Temple's Nicole Chaszar drew mock applause from the crowd, Duke outscored its opposition 24-7 over the remainder of the half to take a 52-point cushion into the locker room. For the half, the Owls shot just 13.8 percent from the floor and had more than triple the number of turnovers (15) as made field goals (four). In one particularly futile stretch, Temple went over 10 minutes-or a quarter of the game-without a basket while committing seven turnovers. That left Goestenkors without much to talk about during the break. "We felt really good at halftime," she said. "Sometimes when that happens, at the end of the game we don't feel any good any more because we've lost our focus.... Our goal was to feel good at the end of the game." Those good feelings were ensured when the Blue Devils came out to start the second stanza with the last thing the Owls needed: a 23-0 run to make the score 87-12. With the bench already pretty much cleared due to Duke dressing only nine healthy players, the only question left was how ugly the game would get before it ended. Howard credited her coach for keeping the team together in the almost surreal atmosphere of the second half. "Coach G helps us [keep our focus]," she said after her 21 points on 8-of-11 shooting left her just one point shy of a career high. "We're just trying to get better every game. It'll be a waste of time if we're out there and we're just going through the motions." An examination of the stat sheet was not for the weak of heart. Temple's Dawn Ingram led her team with eight points, while eight Blue Devils had at least that many and four turned in season highs. Parent tied a career-high with nine rebounds as Duke crushed Temple on the boards, 52-31. And Krista Gingrich handed out a career-high 10 assists while the Owls as a team chalked up only four. As a team, the Blue Devils shot 66.7 percent, held their opponents to 20 percent and created the kind of carnage that Cameron won't witness again for quite some time. Or will it? Next Saturday's opponent, UNC-Asheville, has already dropped a 93-25 decision to 3-4 N.C. State. That apparent mismatch waiting to happen is Duke's last game before heading out to California for the second time this season and a date with 10th-ranked UCLA. Still, Goestenkors isn't entertaining any thoughts of complacency, even after a game that was decided in less than three minutes. "We need to continue to work on ourselves and get better," she said. "This game's going into finals and Asheville's coming out of finals. So just getting back to the basics-improving on defense, improving our rebounding and our execution on offense."
For Method Man, a second album is a second chance.
On an otherwise lackluster night for the women's basketball team, a very bright spot for the Blue Devils came from highly-touted freshman Krista Gingrich. Showing the form that made her a coveted recruit coming out of high school, Gingrich teamed with center Michele VanGorp to form a deadly inside-outside scoring combination. Both players finished the game with a team-high 22 points, scoring nearly half of Duke's 91 points. "You can either choose to shut down me and Payton, or you can choose to shut down Krista, Hilary [Howard] and Nicole [Erickson]," VanGorp said. Gingrich impressed the Cameron crowd with her hot outside shooting, knocking down eight of 11 shots including five-of-seven from behind the arc. Displaying near perfect form, Gingrich hit nothing but net on most of her buckets. "I just think Michele did a good job of sensing the double team," Gingrich said. "They're not that hard to hit when there's nobody guarding you." After building a 17-point cushion early in the first half, Duke allowed Florida State to cut the lead down to six with 2:25 left before intermission. At that point, coach Gail Goestenkors made a key substitution and sent Gingrich into the game. Gingrich proceeded to score eight points-including two big three-pointers-in the span of just under 100 seconds, giving her team a 46-32 advantage going to the break. "I feel right now that my position on this team is to come off the bench and provide a spark," Gingrich said. "If I can do that offensively, [by] hitting the three and just getting everyone pumped up, that's what I'm going to try to do." Gingrich also helped ease the scoring burden a bit for VanGorp and Erickson, who turned in another excellent showing in a recent series of fine offensive performances. On a night in which Howard struggled a bit from the floor, and Georgia Schweitzer couldn't seem to get going offensively, Gingrich was the lift that Duke needed to put the game out of reach for the Seminoles. Coming into the game, Gingrich had played solid, if not spectacularly, in her role as a reserve. In Duke's first seven games, she had hit just 31 percent of her field goals and was averaging 6.3 points. There was never any question that Gingrich could shoot from behind the arc, however. Despite her low field-goal percentage, Gingrich was still shooting a red-hot 47 percent on her three pointers. "We knew exactly what she could do," Florida State coach Sue Semrau said. "I have seen her play a lot in high school. She's a great shooter and I think she had an exceptional game. For a freshman to come out in her first ACC game and shoot the way she did... I thought she showed a lot of poise." Indeed, such poise under pressure for a freshman is rare, and it is something that Gingrich also looks to contribute to the team this year. In the much-publicized season opener against No. 1 Connecticut, Gingrich turned in a very positive performance in an otherwise disappointing game for the Blue Devils. She seemed to maintain her composure in the nationally televised game, despite the loss. Duke and Gingrich will face another test of their poise and composure this Sunday against three-time defending national champion Tennessee in Orlando.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Vanderbilt's Memorial Gym is not the place a team ailing from injuries and inconsistent play wants to find itself, especially if it's not from the SEC.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - With just over two minutes remaining in Saturday's game against Duke, Notre Dame fans were leaving the Joyce Center in a steady stream. Since the Irish were manhandled by almost the exact same Duke team in Durham last season, the sight of people heading for the exits due to a lopsided game probably wasn't too shocking.
Derrick Thomas, this game is for you.
It was nearly eight months ago that Duke fell to Arkansas in the quarterfinals of the 1998 NCAA Tournament, sending the Blue Devils home one game short of the Final Four. Only one player is gone from that team, so on the surface it appears that in those eight months not much has changed.
Call it a case of life imitating art.
A brief moment of anxiety overtook me when Patrick Ewing and National Basketball Players Association executive director Billy Hunter approached the microphone for a live press conference yesterday afternoon. I was afraid they might announce that the NBA lockout was over and the new season would commence post haste.
Cameron Indoor Stadium is getting to be a popular place for coming-out parties.
Even an ugly game of football can produce a nice-looking W.
After a three-game stretch that saw the women's soccer team outscored 13-1 by its opponents, there was no doubt Duke's offense was ailing.
ATLANTA - It was a one-two punch that would have made a heavyweight boxer jealous.
Men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski returned his team to the top of the college basketball world last season, with Duke winning 15 of 16 regular-season ACC games and coming within a few minutes of the Final Four. Expectations are as high as ever as the Blue Devils look ahead to next year. For now, though, Krzyzewski is just as focused on the future of the athletic department, and more specifically the state of Cameron Indoor Stadium (see story, p. 16). But in his annual summer interview with The Chronicle, Krzyzewski also discussed his new job title and, of course, Duke basketball. Interview conducted by Joel Israel and Nick Tylwalk.
