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Nineteen yards. That’s about the length of a standard construction dumpster like the one you might see in the Wannamaker firelane these days. And that’s all the rushing yards that the Blue Devils gained in their first game last year against Richmond.
One of the most important classes at Duke this fall semester can’t be found in ACES. It’s not on file at the registrar’s office. Its enrollment this semester is limited to just four students. There is no classroom available for its sessions, so the four meet nearly every morning at 7:15 in an office on the second floor of the Yoh Football Center. The instructor is quarterbacks coach Kurt Roper. Welcome to QB 101.
It’s a busy time to be a Duke women’s cross country runner.
Duke head coach Sean McNally isn’t a proponent of flashy baseball. He builds his teams on a tripod of fundamentals: pitching, defense and timely hitting. All three of those skills were on display Tuesday night, as McNally’s Blue Devils (13-7) defeated Davidson (13-8) 6-2 on the road.
After an emotional weekend series victory over then-No.11 North Carolina to run their win streak to 11 out of 12 games, the Blue Devils hit a wall against No. 11 Miami last weekend. Duke (12-7) looks to get back on track against Davidson (13-7) Tuesday night at Wilson Field in Davidson, N.C.
There are some who say that basketball is a universal language. And in a way, they’re right. You can put a center from Cameroon with a point guard from Paris and a small forward from Slovakia, and they might be able to put a ball through a hoop with ease. But at Duke, women’s basketball isn’t just about basketballs and backboards. The sport may not get lost in translation, but the players sure can.
CHAPEL HILL — Free throws are the one predictable thing in a basketball game. You know just where you’ll have to stand. You know the defenders can do nothing but watch from a distance. It’s just you, a basketball and a basket. You’ve done this since you were old enough to hold a basketball, and nary a practice has gone by that you didn’t shoot a free throw.
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — It had been barely three days since Duke had moved up two spots to No. 6 in the rankings, with a streak of 12 straight wins interrupted only by a loss to powerhouse Connecticut. And Boston College looked likely to become victim No. 13, as the Eagles had struggled with consistency en route to a record barely above .500.
Duke moved up two spots in the Associated Press poll this week to No. 6, but senior Bridgette Mitchell would be unable to tell you that.
Duke found plenty of different ways to score points Thursday against Wingate, but its high-intensity play was perhaps more defined by the variety of ways in which the Bulldogs committed their astounding 41 turnovers: five-second calls, shot clock violations, steals off the dribble, blocked shots and intercepted passes.
A gambling man probably wouldn’t bet that a top-15 team would miss the chance to compete in the NCAA tournament, but the No. 14 Blue Devils face exactly that possibility as they enter the ACC tournament.
Duke has weathered some difficult competition from unranked nonconference opponents this season, requiring two overtimes to defeat UNC-Wilmington Sept. 22 and losing 4-1 to Davidson Oct. 6. But head coach John Kerr and his team are determined to ensure that the rain which postponed their game against Presbyterian is the only bad weather involved in their matchup with the Blue Hose Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium.
How do you improve a tennis team that lost more than half the doubles points it played in 2009? With a solid right-handed player returning in Reid Carleton, the Blue Devils couldn’t go wrong by bringing in prized lefty recruit Henrique Cunha from Brazil. That approach has worked dazzlingly for Duke so far, as Carleton and Cunha emerged as champions from the ITA Carolina Regionals.
Sometimes there is such a thing as too much drama. Coming off a two-week stretch that saw the Blue Devils set a school record by playing four consecutive overtime games, the team headed into one of the tougher tests of its ACC season, against No. 19 Maryland that had enjoyed a full week of rest.
A team with just five upperclassmen on its 17-player roster always spends the beginning of its season learning, and the lesson this weekend proved bitter: controlling a game and winning that game are two entirely different things.
