Game Commentary
(02/02/99 5:00am)
Cameron Indoor Stadium may be the only place where Michele VanGorp has been overlooked in her entire life.
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Cameron Indoor Stadium may be the only place where Michele VanGorp has been overlooked in her entire life.
On a roster dotted with freshmen, Jason Gorski is quickly making himself stand out from the rest.
In an effort to curtail inflated offensive numbers across the board in college baseball, the NCAA decided to use less potent aluminum bats for the '99 season.
Our social lives revolve around two things: Duke women's basketball and video games.
After sitting out last week's meet against Davidson with illness, Matt Mapes would have a good reason to complain of rust.
Top Five Highlights
Despite the absence of its top wrestler, Matt Mapes, the wrestling team took six of the final seven decisions in its match against Davidson and cruised to a 28-12 win Saturday in Davidson.
After 23 minutes of play in last night's game against Clemson, the women's basketball team was in trouble.
For once, the cacophonic thuds emanating from the Cameron Indoor Stadium vicinity Saturday were not of the on-going construction, but rather, of the multitude of records falling and the pride of the Temple women's basketball players crashing. After all the damage was accounted for following Duke's 112-34 demolition of Temple, the Blue Devils had set or tied team records for largest margin of victory (78), best field goal percentage (66.7) and most assists (32). In addition, Duke rewrote the opponent's section of the Temple record book by setting new marks for most points scored (112), most field goals made (44) and best field goal percentage. Where did it all go wrong for Temple? Putting Duke on the schedule would be a good place to start. Considering Temple hasn't had a winning season since 1989-90 and has already suffered a 16-point loss to Maryland-Eastern Shore this season, the outlook didn't look bright for the Owls coming into this contest. And after the first five minutes of the ballgame, that outlook didn't really get any brighter. While Duke has had a tendency of coming out of the gates sluggishly this season against the likes of Tennessee and Connecticut, the Blue Devils found out Temple isn't exactly Tennessee or Connecticut. Behind a red-hot Hilary Howard, and, well, the rest of the playing rotation, Duke scored the game's first 14 points and leapt out to a 40-3 lead midway through the first half. But give Duke coach Gail Goestenkors an award for being coy for mentioning that her players "weren't really doing a good job with our zone offense in the first half" with a straight face. For all Temple's concerned, it might as well have been the Harlem Globetrotters on the court. The Blue Devils' offensive repertoire included baskets off steals, bombs from behind the three-point arc and layups off pinpoint passes. In contrast, Temple's offense consisted mostly of turning the ball over before getting to the three-point line and pinpoint passes to Duke players. "When we got some early turnovers that led to baskets for us, it just took them out of their game," Goestenkors said. "They just never really recovered." Recovered? It's awfully tough for a team to recover when it's already buried before the last notes of "The Star-Spangled Banner" have died out.
In a season in which the men's cross country team rewrote its history, it's merely fitting the year ended with a member of this year's squad claiming yet another piece of team history.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - In Duke's season opener against No. 1 Connecticut, the Huskies outhustled, outplayed and simply outclassed the Blue Devils, turning a stellar matchup between two top-five teams into an absolute laugher.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Through most of the Blue Devils' game against Tennessee yesterday, they battled toe-to-toe with the reigning queens of women's basketball. Unfortunately for Duke, it just had a little trouble getting out of the locker room.
When Gail Goestenkors stepped into Cameron Indoor Stadium on her first day as the coach of the women's basketball team, she envisioned a program that would ascend towards the nation's elite and a program that would earn the respect of the nation.
While Ohio State and North Carolina swept most of the hardware at the Carolina Open Saturday in Chapel Hill, three Duke wrestlers brought home some accolades of their own.
Considering all the rust that has accumulated in its 27 years of absence from the grandest extravaganza in collegiate cross country, Duke's 26th-place showing at the NCAA Championships might not have been stellar, but it was certainly not a bust either.
A 7-21 record doesn't usually translate into optimism for the next season.
For the first time in 27 years, Al Buehler can finally end the cross-country season today by watching his runners gallop across the premier stage in collegiate cross-country.
Jennifer Love Hewitt in a bathing suit on a tropical island. You can't go wrong with that, can you?
The preseason is usually a time for unbridled optimism, enthusiasm and anticipation. Occasionally the hype leads to disappointment and crest-fallen coaches when the optimism turns into reality.
After 27 years of waiting, the men's cross country team will only have to wait another week before returning to the ultimate stage in collegiate cross country.