Three guards a charm
(03/07/03 5:00am)
With the addition of Lindsey Harding into the starting lineup, Duke has perfected what is now arguably the strongest backcourt in the nation.
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With the addition of Lindsey Harding into the starting lineup, Duke has perfected what is now arguably the strongest backcourt in the nation.
With 14 minutes left in the game, Lindsey Harding looks ahead to Alana Beard, driving hard at half court. With N.C. State (11-16, 6-10 in the ACC) defenders struggling to recover, Beard cut hard toward the center into Amy Simpson and crashed to the floor--seconds before the ball slid through the net, seconds before her third three-point-play of the game.
There's just one more regular season game to play and one more school to rival with, but there's everything to gain for No. 2 Duke. Sunday night, the Blue Devils (27-1, 15-0 in the ACC) will end their regular season, taking on N.C. State (11-15, 6-9) in Cameron Indoor Stadium at 7 p.m.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - With the regular season ACC championship just 20 minutes away, the women's basketball team (26-1, 14-0 in the ACC) decided it was time to grab its title in championship fashion - Duke picked up its third straight regular season conference title and 38th consecutive ACC win by downing Maryland 97-55 at College Park, Md., (10-16, 4-11) on the strength of over 50 percent shooting for the fifth consecutive game.
With 16:01 left in the second half Alana Beard, who finished with 23 points, wove steadily by four stiff Georgia Tech defenders with a reverse underhand layup to bring the Blue Devils within two points of doubling the Yellow Jacket's total score. Less than a minute later, Iciss Tillis, who finished with 14, hit a three to bring the score to 51-25 to permanently take Georgia Tech out of play. For the rest of the game, Duke would enjoy a lead of no less than 23 points.
As February chills over campus, the baseball team's season begins to heat up at historic Jack Coombs Field. Duke's spring competitors had an early start this weekend as the Blue Devils (2-1) took on Cincinnati (1-2). Duke took two of three, winning the first game 4-3, losing the second, 8-0, and then taking the third, 7-1.
CLEMSON, S.C. - After their first loss of the season this past weekend to then-No. 2 Connecticut on national television, the women's basketball team (21-1, 9-0 in the ACC) continues to roll along their undefeated ACC path outlasting a struggling Clemson team (11-10, 3-7) that has lost five consecutive contests.
CLEMSON, S.C. - After an emotionally draining loss, it takes a strong team to come out dominating the next game, regardless of the caliber of the opponent. While there were no explosive minutes or complete breakdowns, the women's basketball team dominated Clemson tonight.
Emerging from the shadows of Saturday night's loss against UConn, the women's basketball team (20-1, 8-0 in the ACC) has some frustrated punches to throw in their next contest against Clemson (11-9, 3-6). With such a loss there can only be two results: an ultimate demise or a new motivation. The team, who left a packed Cameron Indoor Stadium still roaring and pounding on bleachers, feels it has acquired the latter.
With six players in double digits, breaking 30 in the team's overall winning streak, breaking 100 points with a three-point field goal by Vicki Krapohl in the last 23 seconds in the game, the womens' basketball team (18-0, 6-0 in the ACC) showed what it has been struggling with recently: what it means to play like a No. 1 ranked team.
As the tents begin to sink in K-Ville under the snowfall, the heat of the long standing Duke-North Carolina rivalry threatens to boil over. Monday, the women's basketball team will take on the No. 8 Tar Heels (14-1, 4-0 in the ACC) looking to advance their undefeated season to 17-0 and 5-0 in conference play.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -Broken records, upsets, and final seconds that seem to last forever: These are what glue us to our television sets nervously munching on chips and dip and clamoring at referees in the television across the room. Thursday night's game against Virginia was one of those contests that makes fans go crazy in jubilation, only to break them back down to tears - and back again - all in an eighth of a second.
For the second year in a row, the Duke volleyball team (24-9) made it into the semifinals of the ACC tournament only to be silenced in a hard fought game a step short of taking the championship.
When Atlanta hosts this year's ACC volleyball championships this upcoming week, the volleyball team hopes that the city will hold a better fortune than the city did this past weekend.
As fall sports come to the end of their seasons, each win becomes more important and each loss more heart-wrenching. This weekend, the volleyball team (22-7, 10-4 in the ACC) was delt one of each. In a tough match against long-standing rival UNC (24-2, 11-1), the Blue Devils went down in three games only to shut out N.C. State (3-28, 0-13) less than a day later.
The volleyball team (21-6, 9-3 in the ACC) ruined Maryland's hopes for an upset, pulling out a hard-fought win this weekend at Ritchie Coliseum in College Park, Md. The Terrapins (16-12, 5-8) pushed the match to five games, but in the end the Blue Devils' offense showed that it can dominate when necessary.
Head volleyball coach Jolene Nagel told her dominant Blue Devils they had to stay steady this weekend. The team complied, and once again proved their strength in the ACC with back-to-back shutouts this weekend against Clemson (13-10, 4-4) and Florida State (13-7, 4-3 in the ACC).
In the heat of the second game against No. 20 Georgia Tech (19-4, 5-2 in the ACC) in Cameron Indoor Stadium Tuesday night, Duke's Arielle Linderman blocked a powerful shot by the Yellow Jackets' Blair Moon, which almost knocked her flat on her back.
Once sophomore Erin Noble hit the first kill of the game, Virginia knew they were facing a determined Duke volleyball team.