6-foot-7 Bales dominates paint in defensive battle with Huskies
(03/29/06 5:00am)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - The adage is as old as the sport itself-offense wins games, but defense wins championships.
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - The adage is as old as the sport itself-offense wins games, but defense wins championships.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Over the past decade, the women's basketball team has elevated itself to elite status by advancing to the Sweet 16 nine consecutive seasons and the Regional finals seven of those nine years.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - After leading by only eight points at halftime, top-seeded Duke blew out last season's national runner-up Michigan State in the second half on the way to an 86-61 victory Sunday at the Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Conn.
When Lee Melchionni's name was introduced on Senior Night, the 6-foot-6 forward walked to center court to a raucous ovation.
LaSalle's white hats might as well have been white flags.
After suffering one of its toughest losses of the year in extra innings Sunday to Maryland, Duke responded with one of its best performances of the young season in a 4-1 victory over LaSalle Tuesday afternoon.
Duke opened its ACC season with its first series loss of the year, dropping two of three at Jack Coombs Field to Maryland this weekend.
For the second game in a row, the Blue Devils were walloped on the road, giving up an astounding 17 runs.
Duke put an end to its four-game losing streak by taking two of three over the weekend to win its series against Radford at Jack Coombs Field.
Despite four straight losses and a 2-5 start to his Duke career, first-year head coach Sean McNally isn't panicking.
The Blue Devils turned in their worst performance of the season in dropping their third straight game, 19-5, at East Carolina Tuesday.
The Duke fencing team ended its season this weekend by taking home three of the six weapon cups in its only home competition of the year.
For a team that has struggled with turnovers for much of the year, Clemson's recent trouble handling the ball has not been surprising. In back-to-back road defeats at Florida State and North Carolina last week, the Tigers committed a combined 38 turnovers. After a 3-3 start in ACC play, Clemson has dropped three straight, falling to ninth in the league. The Tigers' 347 turnovers ranks third-worst in the conference, surpassed only by Georgia Tech and Wake Forest, owners of the ACC's two worst records. "When you turn the basketball over-averaging twenty a game for our team that struggles to score-that puts an additional burden on our defense," head coach Oliver Purnell said of his team's play last week. Clemson's ball-handling woes came at the most inopportune moments in each game, killing momentum and leading to easy scores for the Seminoles and Tar Heels. In Tallahassee, two straight turnovers quickly turned a tie game into a seven-point deficit. Against North Carolina, the Tigers' miscues keyed big runs at the start of each half for the Tar Heels. "Our inability to take care of the basketball cost us in both those instances," Purnell said. "Putting yourself in a chase mode on the road in this league is very difficult." The barrage of turnovers accentuated Clemson's offensive struggles. In those same road losses, Clemson made only 8-of-39 three-point attempts and shot a combined 37 percent from the field. The Tigers, who average more than 73 points per game, scored just 59 and 61 in the two games, respectively. "Well, we're obviously struggling right now," Purnell said. "One of the reasons is the point we're at in the schedule. We probably have passed the toughest part and it hurt us." Four of the Tigers' last seven contests are at Littlejohn Coliseum, including Wednesday's battle with Virginia Tech. "In some ways, the schedule's favorable in that we've passed the tough part," Purnell said. "But that certainly doesn't mean anything is going to be easy from here on out."
The Duke fencing team completed its longest road trip of the season this weekend, with the men compiling a 5-4 record and the women going 4-6 in competitions in State College, Penn., and South Bend, Ind.
In his 17 years as a college head coach, Oliver Purnell has earned a reputation as a program builder.
It was a day of mixed results for the men's tennis team at the ITA Mideast Regional qualifier Thursday at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.
The men's tennis team opened its season to mixed results over the weekend at the Southern Intercollegiates Championship in Athens, Ga. Although Duke's top two singles players, Ludovic Walter and Joey Atas, were both upset Saturday, senior Jonathan Stokke advanced to the quarterfinals to help salvage the weekend.
Good conditioning played a major role in Duke's march to the Sweet 16 of last year's NCAA Tournament. Even so, the Blue Devils heartbreaking 4-3 loss to Pepperdine proved their stamina was still not good enough to challenge for a national championship.