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Growing up in North Carolina, Seth Curry knew the significance of being a Duke basketball player. He understood the spotlight that accompanied being a member of Coach K’s squad. He knew the benefits of being tutored by one of basketball’s preeminent coaching minds.
Georgia Tech began August with enormous potential. Coming off an ACC-championship season, they were ranked No. 16 in the polls and were widely considered one of the contenders to win the conference once again.
And they’re off. No. 1 Duke began its 2010-2011 season with a bang on Sunday against Princeton.
Last January, the Seminoles must have felt pretty good about themselves. They began their season promisingly with a 13-2 record, including an impressive victory on the road against then-No. 22 Georgia Tech. Sophomore center Solomon Alabi was well on his way toward a promising season, putting up 11.7 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per contest. Junior forward Chris Singleton put up equally impressive statistics.
Sean Renfree may have had his worst moments as Duke’s quarterback last Saturday after playing Miami. The sophomore had just completed less than half of his passes, and worse, threw five interceptions. He even fumbled a snap.
Duke’s season has taken a recent turn for the worse, falling short of its preseason expectations.
The old adage goes “defense wins games.”
Not many people expect Duke to win.
If he wanted, Sean Renfree could finally let out a sigh of relief. He had just led his team to a 41-27 victory over Elon, passing his first test with flying colors as Duke’s starting quarterback.
They play the same position, attended the same high school, and their names even sound tantalizingly similar. However, the most important similarity between sophomore Connor Vernon and junior Donovan Varner is the prominent role they played last year in helping the Blue Devils become competitive in the ACC.
The close of the 2009 season was bittersweet for the Yellow Jackets. While they took home the ACC Championship, they were forced to deal with the departure of four key players: Jonathan Dwyer, the team’s leading rusher; Demaryius Thomas, the first receiver selected in the 2010 NFL Draft; Derrick Morgan, the ACC Defensive Player of the Year; and Morgan Burnett, arguably the best safety on the squad.
The Blue Devils have made a habit of cutting down nets this season.
Before his team’s second-round matchup against the Blue Devils, Louisiana State head coach Van Chancellor knew that his star player, Allison Hightower, would need to have a career night for his squad to beat Duke.
There are 64 teams in the NCAA tournament. Out of those squads, only four can lay claim to a No. 1 seed. So, what are the chances of any of the other 60 teams taking home the title?
In the days leading up to his last Duke-North Carolina game at the Dean E. Smith Center last month, Tar Heel senior forward Deon Thompson felt nothing short of optimism.
When it comes to who the best player on Duke’s squad is, there’s not a question about it—it’s Jasmine Thomas. Thomas leads the Blue Devils in points, assists and steals, and she became the 26th player in Duke history to score 1,000 points, as a junior, earlier this year. Last week, she was named as one of 30 candidates for the Naismith Player of the Year award. The list goes on and on, but there is one question that is much more pertinent to Blue Devil fans—can Duke win without her?
For the Tar Heels, the importance of tonight’s game extends far beyond the Carolina-Duke rivalry. It’s about more than getting a ‘W’ and improving in the ACC standings. For the defending national champions, the last few weeks have been nothing short of disastrous. For that reason, tonight is about redemption, and returning pride to a university that has historically boasted some of the finest basketball players in the world.
Joy Cheek won the tipoff and tapped the ball towards Jasmine Thomas. She dribbled it down the court, calmly took the open jumper and scored. Only three seconds into the game, Duke was already ahead off of an easy field goal. It was that type of night for the Blue Devils in a rivaly matchup against the Tar Heels (16-6, 4-4 in the ACC).
After Friday night’s game against the Blue Devils, Florida State head coach Sue Semrau only needed three words to describe her team’s performance.
Coaches always say that defense wins games, and the Blue Devil defense frustrated Charlotte in a big way Monday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
