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With Duke’s season officially in the books, the Blue Zone breaks down each player's season, including comparisons to their preseason projections. We previously looked at Jaylen Blakes, Jaden Schutt, Jacob Grandison, Ryan Young, Mark Mitchell, Dariq Whitehead, Tyrese Proctor, Dereck Lively II and Kyle Filipowski. Last up is Jeremy Roach:
With Duke’s season officially in the books, the Blue Zone breaks down each player's season, including comparisons to their preseason projections. We already looked at Jaylen Blakes, Jaden Schutt, Jacob Grandison, Ryan Young, Mark Mitchell, and Dariq Whitehead. Next up is Tyrese Proctor:
At the Raleigh Relays over the weekend, Duke met with a variety of teams from all over the nation — and ran circles around them.
On Monday night, No. 3-seed Duke hosts one last game inside Cameron Indoor Stadium this season, this one against No. 6-seed Colorado for the right to head to Seattle for the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16. With the stakes high as ever in Durham, The Chronicle's beat writers make their predictions.
March is full of upsets. On Saturday afternoon, Duke came close to causing one against the No. 2 team in the nation — until a fateful 15 minutes changed that.
Duke’s outdoor season kicks off in style with a St. Patrick’s Day-themed meet scheduled for Thursday through Saturday. Luck might be just what this team needs after months of mishaps and injuries that ultimately culminated in an indoor season that ended on a down note.
No. 5-seed Duke men's basketball kicks off NCAA tournament play against No. 12-seed Oral Roberts on Thursday night. The Blue Zone has three keys for the Blue Devils to avoid the upset:
In theater, a bad rehearsal before opening night is supposed to be good luck. Duke has talent and speed — and if the indoor season is a dress rehearsal, Duke should have a great opening night on the outdoor track.
At 7 p.m. Friday, No. 4-seed Duke meets No. 1-seed Miami in Greensboro, N.C., with a ticket to Saturday’s ACC tournament final on the line. Before tipoff arrives, the Blue Zone is here with three keys to a Blue Devil win:
GREENSBORO, N.C.—It took less than a week for the Blue Devils to turn around and take revenge on the Tar Heels, proving that old adage — the third time really is a charm.
Duke men's basketball closes out its regular season Saturday night in Chapel Hill. Ahead of round two of the rivalry matchup, the Blue Zone looks back at the first meeting and previews the upcoming game:
The bells rang out across Duke’s campus at 5 p.m., chiming as if in celebration of Blue Devil senior Celeste Taylor.
Duke women's basketball fell in its regular-season finale to rival North Carolina, breaking its season-long home win streak. The Blue Zone breaks down the loss:
Sophomore Megan McGinnis ran around the curve of the track just barely ahead of Miami freshman Sanaa Hebron, running at McGinnis’ hip. Anchoring Duke’s women's 4x400m relay race, she crossed the finish line in a flash. The Roanoke, Va., native and her teammates clocked an unofficial time of 3:32.54 — fast enough to win gold in the event, fast enough to qualify for nationals and fast enough to earn Duke the handful of points it needed to clinch the conference championship. But while McGinnis crossed the finish line on time, her baton did not — and that cost Duke everything.
On Sunday afternoon, plenty is at stake for Duke: A rivalry win, a conference title and a season undefeated within Cameron Indoor Stadium all hang in the balance. With North Carolina set to visit the Blue Devils at 12 p.m. Sunday for the regular-season finale, our beat writers make their predictions.
Duke men's basketball's rematch with Virginia Tech is inching closer, and the Blue Zone has three keys for the Blue Devils to redeem themselves at home:
With 5:34 left in the third quarter of Duke’s momentous defeat of Gardner-Webb Sunday, graduate attacker Maddie Jenner broke the record for most draws in NCAA history.
They say the devil is in the details. But in Durham, the Blue Devils are in the details—and numbers:
Before returning to Durham for its final three-game home stand, Duke men's basketball has another away contest as it heads north to take on Syracuse. The Blue Zone has three keys for the Blue Devils to right the road-game ship:
When head coach Kara Lawson took a seat in front of the microphone Sunday afternoon, she wasn’t thrilled. With the exception of a single free throw from sophomore guard Shayeann Day-Wilson, Lawson’s team had just ended a game against an important ACC rival with a seven-minute scoring drought. The ninth-ranked Blue Devils struggled to find the basket in the last quarter against Miami, whereas the Hurricanes were picking up speed. The visiting team closed what had once been a 19-point deficit to a 10-point gap with aggressive defense and sharpshooting from deep.
