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GREENSBORO, N.C. - Ever since last season's loss in the Elite Eight to ninth-seeded Arkansas, the women's basketball team has waited for its chance at redemption.
GREENSBORO, N.C. - With over 14 minutes left in the contest, the Blue Devils' third-team All-America center Michele VanGorp picked up her fourth foul going after the rebound of a missed three-pointer by Georgia Schweitzer.
The cruelest intention of the director of Cruel Intentions is showing us a movie like this, and then sending us back to our rooms while our roommates are still there.
During the last five years, the struggle for supremacy in women's basketball has been a tug-of-war between two storied programs led by the two greatest coaching icons in the game today.
The final tuneup before ACC play begins this weekend wasn't scripted like this.
After a season which saw the women's basketball team suffer the low of a 30-point season-opening loss to Connecticut, to the high of an 18-game winning streak which lasted from early December till late February, the Blue Devils will have the chance to make the most meaningful imprint of their season on the grandest stage in women's basketball.
Three weeks after climbing into the national elite, the men's tennis team showed Florida it enjoys the view from the top and intends to stay there.
The women's basketball team might have found out it would get a chance to stay close to home yesterday, but the Blue Devils must deal with one house guest who's crashed more than its share of parties-three-time defending National Champion Tennessee.
If practice indeed makes perfect, Duke's 93-71 win against North Carolina on Jan. 22 would have served as the exemplary model.
Leading practice, preparing for games, coaching an elite team and winning ACC coach of the year-it has all become routine for women's basketball coach Gail Goestenkors.
CHARLOTTE - Clemson's streak of three straight appearances in the ACC tournament finals and Duke's streak of two straight second-round exits may have foretold it. Clemson's slew of serendipitous plays throughout the game may have proved it. And Clemson coach Jim Davis outright said it after the game.
On a team where she is only the eighth-tallest player, she has led Duke in rebounding each of the past two seasons.
After watching his last start "rained out" by a faulty sprinkler system at historic Jack Coombs Field Sunday, Brad Dupree understandably may have been eager to return to the mound yesterday.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - If Elton Brand is ever looking for a side job for some extra cash, he might want to look into the window washing business. Brand showed his skill last night in the business, cleaning up the glass all game en route to a 16-rebound performance.
CLEMSON, S.C. - Clemson coach Jim Davis' most indelible memory of his team's last meeting with the Blue Devils was watching Nicole Erickson put on a shooting showcase, draining three, after three, after three, and almost single-handedly erasing the Tigers' 10-point second-half lead.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - In the eight games preceding last night's contest against Virginia, Duke's bench averaged 17 points and 10.25 rebounds per game. There was some concern (hey, when your team is 24-1, you have to find something to be concerned about) that the team was becoming too reliant on its starting five.
On the eve of his team's match against North Carolina, wrestling coach Clar Anderson seemingly has picked up a new profession-card dealing. He's certainly done more shuffling than any blackjack dealer on the Vegas strip the last couple of days.
His promise had been so bright, his demise had been so cruel.
CHARTLOTTESVILLE - With under 13 minutes left, Virginia's all-everything center DeMya Walker found herself alone at the top of the key and leaned in for a rare three-point attempt-swish.
For the last year and a half, Shane Battier has steadily seen his reputation grow as one of the premier players in college basketball, when falling down or on his back.
