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Four years ago Monique Currie tore her ACL and was forced to redshirt her sophomore season. Currie sat on the bench the entire year as her team reached the Final Four, but her father, Michael, continued his role as the Blue Devils' most vocal supporter.
Former Virginia head coach Pete Gillen stepped down at the end of last season after finishing in last place in the ACC and failing to make the NCAA Tournament for the fourth consecutive year. The Cavaliers brought in Dave Leitao and the first-year coach has led the team to a 7-7 conference record and 14-11 mark overall. The Cavaliers were picked to finish dead last in the ACC in preseason polls, but currently sit in a fifth-place tie with Florida State and Miami with two games left on their conference schedule. "It was unanimous that we were the 12th-best team in this league," Leitao said. "We never felt that we were the 12th-place team.... We just set out to work as hard as we could every day." The Cavaliers are currently ranked 68th in the RPI and are only 2-5 against teams ranked in the RPI top 50, leaving them on the bubble and in need of quality wins if they want to be dancing. Leitao's squad will have an opportunity to bolster its NCAA Tournament resumé Wednesday at North Carolina. The Cavaliers knocked off the Tar Heels in Charlottesville Jan. 19, but have struggled to a 1-6 mark on the road this season. "There's a change of routine, you're out of your comfort zone and there's no fan base," Leitao said of playing away from home. "For us specifically, we can't have much go wrong at home or on the road and be successful." The Cavaliers have been nearly unstoppable at home, however, dropping just one game and knocking off two top-25 opponents. Maryland will travel to University Hall Saturday for the final game of the regular season and the last game before Virginia moves to John Paul Jones Arena next season. Leitao said his team is focusing on finishing this year out strong and that this is the most important time of the season. "We've been hot and cold with what we've done all season long," he said. "We want to finish off the regular season playing the best that we can play." -Patrick Byrnes
Coming off a thrilling double-overtime win in Miami over the weekend, the top-ranked Blue Devils routed Virginia Tech, 93-51, on Senior Night Wednesday at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The women's golf team kicked off its spring schedule Monday by playing nearly 36 holes. Duke was in second when play was halted because of darkness during the first day of competition at the Arizona Wildcat Invitational in Tucson, Ariz.
J.J. Redick calmly drained his sixth three-pointer of the night with 4:15 remaining, and the Cameron Crazies erupted in celebration as the senior surpassed Duke great Johnny Dawkins to become the Blue Devils' all-time leading scorer with 2,557 career points.
For the first time of the season, Duke and North Carolina will battle for Tobacco Road bragging rights tonight.
Through Duke's first 20 games this season, shooting guard J.J. Redick has only twice attempted fewer shots than he did in Saturday night's win over Virginia.
Shelden Williams recorded the first triple-double of the Coach K Era as the top-ranked Blue Devils destroyed No. 23 Maryland, 76-52, and snapped their three-game losing streak against the Terrapins (11-4, 1-2 in the ACC).
The No. 1 Blue Devils have yet to play like the nation's top team. While they have notched impressive victories over Indiana and Memphis, both top-25 teams, they have struggled against weaker opponents.
With a pair of road victories over Miami and Florida State during the Thanksgiving Break, Duke (23-7, 17-5 in the ACC) finished the season with its best record since 2001 and was rewarded with a berth in the NCAA Championships.
Duke didn't look like the team most people expected when it opened its season Monday night.
Duke was outshot and outrebounded by Boston University Monday night, but it still emerged with a 17-point victory and moved into the second round of the NIT Season Tip-Off.
Making the adjustment from high school basketball to the ACC is difficult. It is even harder trying to adapt as a shooting guard with an injured shooting hand.
It was definitely not supposed to be this way for John Gilchrist. As a sophomore two years ago, the point guard dominated an ACC Tournament which the Terrapins eventually won.
For the first time since Nov. 3, 2002, the women's golf team lost a tournament on its fall schedule.
The Blue Devils' new guards took center stage Wednesday night.
While serving as an assistant golf professional at Crane Creek Country Club in Boise, Idaho more than two decades ago, Dan Brooks received a flier from the Boise State men's golf coach regarding a job opening at Duke.
The top-ranked Blue Devils cruised to a 27-stroke victory at the Stanford Intercollegiate over the weekend and made their mark on the record books. The tournament win was the 92nd of head coach Dan Brooks' 22-year Duke career, and he now stands alone as the winningest coach in Division I history.
RALEIGH - The National Hockey League is back on the ice after a year-long lockout between the owners and players wiped out last season.
Duke blew out the competition this weekend for its ninth-consecutive Lady Tar Heel Invitational victory in Chapel Hill, N.C.
