Cutcliffe picks up 20 players in new class
It’ll be months before Duke takes the field for a game at Wallace Wade Stadium, but head coach David Cutcliffe said that Wednesday may have been the most important day of the college football year.
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It’ll be months before Duke takes the field for a game at Wallace Wade Stadium, but head coach David Cutcliffe said that Wednesday may have been the most important day of the college football year.
If William Shakespeare were to give Mike Krzyzewski coaching advice, he might warn Coach K to beware the ides of March. But if history is any guide, he’d be off by a month.
Although the husky may be the most feared animal in women’s college basketball, it’s critical to remember that a tiger can still maul you if you’re not paying attention.
It may only take two to tango, but in college tennis, it takes more than two to win a match. So while the Blue Devils possess one of the best doubles teams in the country, it will be critical for their other players to develop if they are to sustain success as a team.
The beginning of 2011 hasn’t been especially kind to Mike Krzyzewski and his team. The Blue Devils won a dogfight against Maryland in Cameron, then lost to Florida State on the road, and looked lost for nearly 30 minutes against Virginia.
When Duke most needed points on Saturday, trailing Virginia by four and still looking very out-of-sync, it wasn’t Kyle Singler that stepped up. Nor was it Nolan Smith, even though he and Singler did combine for 42 points in the contest.
As the Blue Devils anxiously await a final diagnosis on Kyrie Irving’s toe injury, basketball still goes on for the rest of the team.
There’s more than one way to win a basketball game. Some teams win with flair and smooth continuity. Other teams win with grit and methodical, physical play. It remains to be seen which route Duke will choose this season.
Nineteen teams remain unbeaten in the NCAA at this point in the season, but that number is guaranteed to fall by at least one tonight as two undefeated teams take the court in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Make no mistake: This is still Jasmine Thomas’s team. She still strikes fear in her opponents—Brigham Young head coach Jeff Judkins said after the game that the Duke press defense was “scary, knowing Thomas and what kind of player she is.” She still provides excellent leadership for a young team.
There’s an old adage that an irritated person is “seeing red,” but that wasn’t entirely true in Friday’s contest between Duke and Wake Forest at Koskinen Stadium.
Even on a team that gets as much attention as Duke, there is only so much hype to go around. Among Duke’s three incoming freshmen, point guard Kyrie Irving has made the most headlines, and deservingly so, since he’s the player ranked second overall in his class by Scout.com.
Expect youth to be served in Raleigh this season. N.C. State head coach Sidney Lowe looks to parlay the nation’s fifth-ranked recruiting class into success in a weakened ACC. As a result, the media projects the Wolfpack to finish fourth in the conference behind Duke, North Carolina and Virginia Tech.
It would’ve been rare to find a preseason prognostication that placed any importance on the matchup between Duke and Virginia this weekend.
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Shocking. That was about the only way Duke could describe its 44-7 shellacking this weekend at the hands of No. 21 Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Safety Matt Daniels used the word several times in a postgame interview. So did head coach David Cutcliffe.
Four huge games. That’s how head coach Robbie Church characterized the rest of his team’s schedule this season. With just one win in six ACC contests entering play this weekend, the Blue Devils found themselves in danger of missing the ACC tournament for the first time in the program’s history.
At first glance, it’s hard to imagine Cooper Helfet playing lacrosse. He’s listed at 6-foot-4 and 240 lbs., and he looks every bit that big. The average Duke lacrosse player, by contrast, weighed in at 191 pounds last year.
The Maryland Terrapins are off to a 3-1 start this season, but not many people, on a national or local level, seem to be taking an interest. The Terrapins haven’t received any votes in the AP poll, and last week’s contest against Florida International in College Park drew just 33,254 fans to Byrd Stadium (capacity 54,000). It was the smallest home crowd at any Maryland home football game since head coach Ralph Friedgen took over at his alma mater 10 years ago. Wide receiver Torrey Smith told The Washington Post: “It stunk.”
Duke travels to Winston-Salem Saturday to face a talented Demon Deacon squad that, despite being projected as one of the weaker teams in the ACC, still poses a real threat to the Blue Devils’ hopes of starting the season 2-0.
“We were never at a level that we had reached in practice and training camp. This was not reflective of our football team,” head coach David Cutcliffe said a year ago after his team fell to Richmond in its first game of the 2009 season.