QUINN-SANITY: Duke basketball beats Louisville 76-71 to take the Battle 4 Atlantis
(11/25/12 12:11pm)
NASSAU, Bahamas—“A leader has to look strong before he is strong.”
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NASSAU, Bahamas—“A leader has to look strong before he is strong.”
On March 28, 1992, Rick Pitino was 39 years old, with exactly 200 collegiate wins to his name. Mike Krzyzewski was slightly his senior, as a 45-year-old with 367 wins. That night, Christian Laettner hit what would go on to become one of the most famous shots in basketball history, sending Duke to the Final Four with a 104-103 victory against Pitino’s Kentucky squad.
NASSAU, Bahamas—The Atlantis Paradise Island resort was designed as the perfect vacation getaway, not as a basketball facility. As a result, teams are afforded little space to practice or prepare in the midst of the three-day Battle 4 Atlantis tournament.
NASSAU, Bahamas—On March 15, 2007, Virginia Commonwealth guard Eric Maynor sank a miraculous 15-foot jumpshot with five seconds left in the game to hand Duke a first-round loss in the NCAA Tournament. The No. 11-seeded Rams forced 17 turnovers in that game, including six by point guard Greg Paulus. They also shot the lights out from beyond the arc, with a 9-for-16 showing that overcame Duke’s superior shooting performance overall.
NASSAU, Bahamas—Thursday evening, Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski told reporters that he had never been on a movie set. He added, though, that the setting for his team’s 89-71 victory against Minnesota felt like one.
When the Duke basketball team headed to Hawaii last November for the Maui Invitational, it was hard to imagine a more exotic place for a basketball tournament. The squad may have outdone itself this year, though, as it heads south to the Bahamas for the second annual Battle 4 Atlantis, which will take place at the Atlantis Paradise Island resort in Nassau Thursday through Saturday.
The coach: Shaka Smart—Illinois made the 35-year-old rising star a $2.5 million offer to leave VCU in March, but he declined.
The coach: Josh Pastner—Pastner just turned 35 years old last month, but has taken Memphis to the NCAA tournament each of the last two years.
The coach: Tubby Smith—The long-time Kentucky head coach could get within two wins of 500 for his career if the Golden Gophers win the Battle 4 Atlantis.
The coach: Johnny Dawkins—The Duke legend played for Mike Krzyzewski from 1982-86 and then spent 10 seasons as an associate head coach at Duke. In four seasons at Stanford, he has yet to lead the Cardinal to the postseason.
The coach: Frank Haith—Haith won 30 games in his first season with the Tigers after a 129-101 record across seven years in the ACC with Miami.
The coach: Ben Jacobson—Jacobson has taken his Panthers to the NCAA Tournament twice in his six years, including a magical 2010 run to the Sweet Sixteen as a No. 9 seed.
The coach: Rick Pitino—The coaching legend joined Louisville in 2001, with more than 350 wins to his name already. He has since won 265 more games with the Cardinals.
ATLANTA — In a fight between two talented heavyweights, winning requires more than just punching. It requires taking punches as well, and Duke demonstrated Tuesday night that it understands this principle.
Duke got off to a conventional start despite an unconventional opponent Friday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium, defeating Georgia State 74-55 in the season opener for both teams.
Head coach Joanne P. McCallie and her team shared a great deal of disappointment at the team’s heartbreaking loss in the regional finals of last year’s NCAA Tournament. But there’s a silver lining as a new season gets underway—nearly all of those disappointed players are back on campus in an effort to make another run at a title.
Rasheed Sulaimon has known for years that he wanted to play college basketball for Duke. Amile Jefferson made a last-minute decision to commit to the Blue Devils after head coach Mike Krzyzewski became a late entry into his recruiting process. Sulaimon is a soft-spoken 6-foot-4 Texan with excellent size for a guard. Jefferson is a vocal 6-foot-8 forward from Philadelphia who will need to continue adding muscle to compete at the collegiate level.
If you’re the head coach of a Division II team, even one that won the national championship last season, it’s difficult preparing for No. 3 Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium. If your championship squad lost eight players and returns just one starter, it’s nearly impossible. If four of your five current starters are sidelined and you have just seven players available to play, you might resort to meteorology.
On a four-lane road in suburban Atlanta, lined with strip malls and apartment complexes, there is a strip club. It was there that my parents met.
Basketball is a diverse sport, with players of all shapes, sizes and nationalities, but they all have one thing in common—they wear shoes. And in the world of college basketball recruiting, the companies that make those shoes are exerting an ever-greater influence on recruits and their college decisions.