No. 1 men's hoops team dismantles Georgia Tech from opening tip
(02/26/98 5:00am)
ATLANTA - Perhaps the game was over before it started.
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ATLANTA - Perhaps the game was over before it started.
The men's basketball team dealt UCLA its worst loss in history thanks to equal parts skill and strategy, with just a dash of luck thrown in.
With less than one minute left in its last regular-season home game against No. 10 N.C. State (20-5, 11-4 in the Atlantic Coast Conference), the women's basketball team stood one point away from making history. One jump shot and two free throws later, the 11th-ranked Blue Devils (19-6, 12-3 in the ACC) had gone where no Duke women's basketball team had gone before.
The baseball team could practically run a clinic on putting things off until the last minute.
Few things in sports are more thrilling than pulling off an upset over a higher-ranked competitor, someone heavily favored to win.
With this season's first clash between men's basketball rivals Duke and North Carolina quickly approaching, UNC's Shammond Williams has had to deal with his fair share of the hype.
The men's track team made significant progress at the Terrier Classic this weekend, competing in a field that included Georgetown, George Mason, Villanova, Iona, St. John's and host Boston University.
"The American Heritage Dictionary" defines 'imposing' as 'impressive.' In Atlantic Coast Conference basketball, the word has a different definition: Maryland's Obinna Ekezie.
If experience is one of the keys to success, the women's fencing team is on the right track. With the loss of only one senior from last year and the return of ten seasoned veterans, the Blue Devils have a strong base on which to build heading into their 1998 campaign.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - It was a bittersweet homecoming for Blue Devils and Michigan natives Mike Chappell and Shane Battier. Expecting to see their families and take an unranked Michigan team by storm at Crisler Arena on Saturday, they had to settle for just seeing their families, as the Wolverines (6-2) staged a stunning upset over No. 1 Duke (9-1), 81-73.
Last year the men's basketball team had no starter taller than 6-foot-8 and relied heavily on its perimeter game. Its dependence on the jump shot paved the path to its doom. When Duke's shots didn't fall, it struggled to grab rebounds and gave up crucial late-season and postseason victories. But this year things have changed.
In its home opener, the third-ranked men's basketball team (1-0) will take on Davidson (0-0) tonight at 6:30 p.m in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The men's soccer team has met the enemy, and it is Maryland.
On Saturday night, the men's basketball team set out to show what it could do. And what it did was steamroll the Upstate All-Stars, 128-74 in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
A trip to California will be no vacation this weekend for the men's soccer team.
For the first time since the '80s, the men's soccer team went into a game against Virginia as the clear-cut favorite. But when two fierce rivals clash, anything can happen.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - During the halftime show, the Marine drill team performed with absolute precision. Unfortunately, neither Duke's nor Virginia's football team did the same.
It's not how you get it done, it's just the getting it done that counts.
The 12th-ranked field hockey team (6-4, 2-1 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) notched a goal for every day it took off from competition, crushing Wake Forest (7-7, 0-2 in the ACC) in a 9-1 blowout Tuesday night.
All season long, the women's soccer team has had to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. This weekend it once again proved its mettle, defeating Pennsylvania, 3-1, and Alabama, 3-0, at the Duke adidas Women's Soccer Classic-all without its leading scorer.