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The drama seemed to be long over in yesterdayPis menPis tennis match when DukePis Pedro Escudero and MiamiPis Jose Lieberman went to a second-set tiebreak. The seventh-ranked Blue Devils (14-4) had already clinched their eighth-straight victory, having won the doubles point and the five other singles matches.
Three times this season, the men's lacrosse team has traveled north for a game between two undefeated, top-10 teams. Three times, Duke has emerged with its record unblemished.
Fifteen. That's Ryan Caldbeck's jersey number and the number of times Mike Krzyzewski has led Duke into the NCAA tournament. It's also the Blue Devils' smallest margin of victory since Feb. 6. In that span they have played 13 games, posted 13 victories by an average of 29.5 points and left all 13 opponents at least 15 points behind when the final buzzer sounded.
With under seven minutes remaining in the third quarter of yesterday's game against 11th-ranked Navy (3-2), the men's lacrosse team trailed 4-2. Less than four minutes later, Duke led 7-4.
CHARLOTTE - For the first time in a week, Trajan Langdon's famous jump shot was swishing through the nets at the Charlotte Coliseum. It is still "very doubtful," however, that the senior will be launching long-range bombs tonight, said coach Mike Krzyzewski.
No one can accuse this year's NCAA Selection Committee of lacking a sense for the dramatic. It did give 32-1 Duke what it wanted, awarding the Blue Devils the top seed in the East Region and two games in Charlotte. But the committee also added some intrigue to the bracket, placing the team responsible for Duke's one loss in the same region.
It has been said many times, by TV commentators, columnists and coaches. The Atlantic Coast Conference will get four teams into the NCAA tournament. Sure, the league is down this year, they say, but it still ranks among the best in the country and deserves more than three berths.
The last time the men's basketball team won in Chapel Hill, Corey Maggette was in the fifth grade. The newest jersey to hang in Cameron Indoor Stadium was Danny Ferry's, and the rafters on the opposite side of the building were empty. Mike Krzyzewski's four Final Four trips in five years were viewed as evidence of Duke's permanent bridesmaid status as much as proof of coaching genius.
One more point was all the men's tennis team needed to upset fifth-ranked Illinois Sunday.
College golf tournaments are usually held in sunny locales such as Puerto Rico and Florida, a long, long way from home for a golfer from somewhere like Minnesota.
In the first matchup of the season between Duke and Georgia Tech, the Yellow Jackets didn't have a prayer of winning. In the two teams' second meeting, the Blue Devils needed a 35-foot prayer at the end of the first half just to escape against the Yellow Jackets.
Long before the first dunk of Midnight Madness, Maryland fans were expecting a storybook season for their men's basketball team, a proud program that has never found its way into the Final Four. Duke knows the route well, and the Terrapin faithful hyped the teams' two matchups as a chance for Maryland to prove it belongs among college basketball's elite.
The coach lost his hair, but his squad rarely lost Saturday, as the women's swim team finished its season at .500 with a 150-91 victory over Davidson.
RALEIGH - When Kenny Inge completed a three-point play to pull N.C. State within six with 8:40 left in Duke's final visit to Reynolds Coliseum, Mike Krzyzewski said he imagined the ghosts of the building's 50-year past dancing in celebration.
Trips to Florida in January are usually vacations, but the young baseball team won't have much time to relax this weekend. Duke opens its season with games against three top teams, Central Florida, sixth-ranked Rice and South Alabama, in the Olive Garden Classic in Kissimmee.
Two minutes into overtime, two of your star teammates on the bench, your team down one, what do you do? Do you drill a three-pointer with an opponent's hand in your face? Do you block a shot into the ninth row? Do you throw down a one-handed dunk over two defenders?
Almost a year to the day after suffering a one-point loss to William & Mary, the women's swim team defeated the Tribe 142-99 Saturday in Williamsburg, Va.
Elton Brand showed some versatility in his game Saturday afternoon, driving coast to coast, faking a pass then converting a finger roll in the first half and sinking a long baseline jumper in the second.
Even though the swim teams don't have another meet until Jan. 15, the time away from competition won't be easy. The Blue Devils will get a break from the pool after a tough pre-finals week of practice, but then they'll head to Fort Lauderdale for almost two weeks of high-yardage workouts.
The men's basketball team returned from a week in Alaska Sunday afternoon, only to jump back on a plane bound for Chicago two days later. Last night's flight might have been shorter than the trip to Anchorage, but the competition won't be any easier for fourth-ranked Duke, which is coming off its first loss of the season to then No. 15 Cincinnati.
