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Duke's 74-73 win in Chapel Hill left a sore taste in the Tar Heels' mouths. For the second time in five years, North Carolina found a way to lose a game it appeared to have in hand.
The Tar Heels grabbed everything Saturday night.
John Feinstein, Trinity '77 and former sports editor of The Chronicle, has spent his entire career telling stories. He covered the ACC's golden age, in the process forging relationships with some of the most successful, powerful college basketball coaches in history. The depths of those connections put Feinstein in the unique position to author his latest book, titled "The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry." Feinstein will discuss the book Friday at 7 p.m. at The Regulator Bookshop on Ninth Street.
By this time most years, the Blue Devils are getting ready to put away their pads, about to head off for spring break after another spring practice.
When Kellen Urbon takes the mound, his teammates know they aren’t going to be in the field very long.
The ACC has issued a public reprimand to Duke sophomore Grayson Allen after the Blue Devil guard tripped Xavier Rathan-Mayes in the final seconds of Thursday's 80-65 win against Florida State.
Update, 1:35 p.m.: The ACC is reviewing the incident from Thursday's game, according to the Associated Press.
Nothing seemed to fall for the Blue Devils in the game's first five minutes, but once the ball went through the net for the first time, they were off to the races.
Xavier Rathan-Mayes knew he had it going when he let go of the third 3-pointer.
On a cold, drizzly night at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, the hot bat belonged to a Blue Devil freshman at the bottom of the order.
The Blue Devils were left with limited options in the backcourt Saturday at the KFC Yum! Center, turning to walk-on Nick Pagliuca in the game’s closing seconds after both Grayson Allen and Luke Kennard fouled out in Duke’s 71-64 loss to Louisville.
When you think about college wrestling, you think about the Big Ten. But when you think about Big Ten wrestling, Northwestern is probably not the first team that comes to mind.
Playing short-handed after junior captain Matt Jones suffered an ankle injury, No. 20 Duke surged back from an eight-point deficit to beat No. 5 North Carolina 74-73 Wednesday night in Chapel Hill. Five Blue Devils accounted for 186 of the 200 possible minutes for the Blue Devils, and head coach Mike Krzyzewski did not substitute for the contest's final 10:51. On the other end, Brice Johnson posted 29 points and 19 rebounds, but the Tar Heels could not get off a clean shot on the game's final possession as Derryck Thornton blocked Joel Berry II's shot.
Duke finds itself the owner of a four-game winning streak heading into Wednesday's showdown at No. 5 North Carolina—due in part to a no-call on the final play of Saturday's win against No. 7 Virginia.
What a difference a week makes. The Blue Devils leapfrogged Louisville in the standings after a 2-0 week coupled with an 0-2 stretch for the Cardinals, and gained some ground on third-place Virginia as well with Saturday's dramatic win against the Cavaliers. A win Wednesday at North Carolina could throw Duke right back into the thick of the ACC race as the teams come down the stretch.
Everything changed for Jay Williams in June 2003, when the former Blue Devil point guard crashed his motorcycle in Chicago and sustained serious leg injuries that curtailed his NBA career. The Chronicle’s Ryan Hoerger spoke with Williams, now an ESPN college basketball analyst, about his new memoir, "Life Is Not An Accident." Their conversation has been condensed for clarity.
When Kennedy Meeks arrived at ACC media day in late October, he was handed a North Carolina polo shirt for the day’s endless loop of interviews, press conferences and video shoots.
Amile Jefferson hopped up from the bench with the rest of his teammates to celebrate Grayson Allen's buzzer-beater Saturday against No. 7 Virginia, but trailed the rush to mob to Allen because of the limitations of the walking boot still protecting his fractured right foot.
Ryan Kelly has been around plenty of basketball royalty during his career. He developed into a standout forward under the tutelage of head coach Mike Krzyzewski at Duke, played alongside Kyrie Irving and now suits up alongside Kobe Bryant on the Los Angeles Lakers.
The featured game of ESPN's Saturday college basketball slate was a 2:30 p.m. tilt between No. 6 Kansas and No. 3 Oklahoma—the rematch of January's triple-overtime game at Allen Fieldhouse.
