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For the second year in a row, a freshman was the team's leading scorer in the No. 5 Duke women's basketball team season opener.
"We're trying to not go on the road this year."
Last year, when Duke ran into Southwest Missouri State in the NCAA Tournament, the Blue Devils struggled, panicked and were soundly defeated.
As time slipped away in Kent, Ohio and Rutgers was defeated in the first round of the 2000 NIT, sophomore guard Dahntay Jones had to wonder what his life had become.
Never mind the score.
This afternoon, while the last highly ranked high school basketball player to visit Duke announces her college choice, the next arrives on campus.
Parents will not be the only esteemed guests on campus this weekend.
More than a year ago, during an unofficial visit, Mike Krzyzewski laid out for J.J. Redick a list of the players that he wanted in the Class of 2006.
Rarely is the Duke men's soccer team (4-3) an unquestionable underdog in a game, but such will be the case in both of the Blue Devils' matches this weekend at the Rutgers Philips/adidas Soccer Classic against both the host school and St. John's.
After 20 minutes of prayer, thanks and a standing ovation, quiet and unassuming Shavlik Randolph strode to the podium near center court in Broughton High School's crowded Holliday Gym. He leaned his head from atop his 6-foot-9 frame down to the microphones and thanked the speakers who had preceded him and the hundreds of fans gathered in the gym.
Before Duke (0-4, 0-2 in the ACC) took the field against Virginia (3-1, 2-0) Saturday, a computer-animated cartoon was played on Scott Stadium's jumbo-tron.
Number four ran into the line, simulating a run, but released and ran downfield. Maroon and gold-clad defenders did not notice him until he caught the ball on a deep fade toward the sideline. He was even with defenders, but he won the race to the endzone; Number four wins races. Duke led Florida State 6-0.
When Northwestern (1-0) and Duke (0-2) step onto the field at Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday at 6 p.m., it will not be the beginning of a normal football game.
The women's basketball team will play host to another highly sought-after recruit for the Class of 2006 this weekend.
After graduation, while his classmates were starting summer jobs or going to the beach, Matt Christensen was having his lawn mown.
In 2001 the Duke men's soccer team will be rebuilding after losing seven prominent seniors, but hopes not to look like a rebuilding team.
Shortly after returning from Australia, where they prepared for the upcoming basketball season, the Duke women's basketball team is preparing for the less immediate future by bringing in two recruits for the 2002 class.
One more piece of a dynasty fell into place Thursday when high school junior Lee Melchionni gave a verbal commitment that he will join J.J. Redick and Michael Thompson in the men's basketball team's class of 2006.
Kalen Anderson carried the Duke women's golf team through a storm Sunday to hold on to the team title at the Liz Murphey Classic in Athens, Ga.-and to claim a first-ever tournament victory for herself.
CLEMSON, S.C. - On a night when the Blue Devils hardly flew to victory, the wings that them. Nate James' career-high 27 points and stellar defense against ACC leading scorer Will Solomon and Mike Dunleavy's 17 points and 17 rebounds steadied Duke over a pesky Clemson team, 81-64.
