REVENGE OF THE IRISH
(02/21/11 10:00am)
CJ Costabile picked up the ball after the Blue Devils won the opening faceoff and brought it into the offensive third, ready to take a shot on goal.
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CJ Costabile picked up the ball after the Blue Devils won the opening faceoff and brought it into the offensive third, ready to take a shot on goal.
It was the start of a new season for Duke Saturday, but it was a veteran who stole the spotlight for the young Blue Devils in their opening game.
When the Blue Devils take the field Saturday, there will be few reminders of the last game they played.
NEW YORK — On the one-year anniversary of Duke’s lopsided defeat to Georgetown at the Verizon Center, the No. 3 Blue Devils faced off against another Big East opponent Sunday, attempting to build off the momentum of four straight ACC victories.
Home court had not been kind to the nation’s top teams this week.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — There was upset fever in the air at the Donald L. Tucker center Friday two days after the Duke men saw their undefeated season come to a crashing halt against Florida State.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Saturday’s matchup between Duke and Butler was expected to play out much differently than April’s national championship game.
After an up-and-down regular season, the Blue Devils are free from the rigors of their brutal conference schedule and have finally found some consistency in the NCAA Tournament.
Duke’s season lives on for at least one more weekend as the team earned a bid in the NCAA Tournament for the eighth consecutive year Monday afternoon. The Blue Devils will play California Friday in Gainesville, Fla.
It is do-or-die time for the Blue Devils.
Friday night was a celebration of last year’s national championship season—but also the beginning of a new one.
After a heartbreaking loss to Miami Thursday in which the Blue Devils surrendered two goals in the final two minutes, Duke returned to form Sunday with the help of an unexpected source of inspiration—Mia Hamm.
The national spotlight is on Duke this weekend, and it’ll shine its brightest tomorrow in Wallace Wade Stadium.
The Blue Devils have had a number of breakthroughs in the first two years of the David Cutcliffe era, like winning their first season-opener since 2002 and notching consecutive ACC victories last season. The team, however, has yet to defeat one of its primary in-state rivals—the Demon Deacons.
After a grueling stretch to begin the regular season, the Blue Devils welcomed the opportunity to play their home opener against an unranked opponent.
The final weekend of the season is no longer complete without an appearance from Duke.
Kyle Singler entered the Bill Brill Media Room Tuesday morning grinning from ear to ear.
Dylan Arnould was laboring.
HOUSTON — A Final Four for Duke, at last.
HOUSTON — For the past few years, the knock on Duke has been that the Blue Devils were a finesse squad, incapable of winning a physical, gut-it-out contest against the best teams in the country.