Programs clear NCAA standards
(03/02/05 5:00am)
Duke received scores above the national average for nearly all of its teams according to the initial academic progress rates released by the NCAA Monday.
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Duke received scores above the national average for nearly all of its teams according to the initial academic progress rates released by the NCAA Monday.
“It’s a good day for Duke football.”
In their first true test of the young season, the fourth-ranked Blue Devils jumped out to an early lead and held on down the stretch to defeat conference foe No. 7 Maryland Saturday, 10-7.
At the end of last season, no one expected the Blue Devils to be in their current position.
Just when Duke was getting back to full strength, the men’s basketball team was dealt another blow.
On Senior Night in Cameron Indoor Stadium, the Blue Devils put together two dominating performances against overmatched Campbell and Duquesne Tuesday as they improved their record on the season to 8-4.
Moments after Lee Melchionni fouled out with 3:09 remaining in the overtime period against Maryland Saturday night, Reggie Love stood up from the end of the bench and removed his warm-ups.
The Blue Devils fencing team secured victories over rival North Carolina in both the men’s and women’s competition this weekend at the Duke Invitational.
Resting in the corner of head coach Kerstin Kimel’s desk is a statue of Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, the site of the 2005 women’s lacrosse Final Four.
Duke (18-2, 8-2 in the ACC) is now tied for the league lead with North Carolina and Wake Forest, and with the hardest remaining schedule of the three, the Blue Devils cannot afford to stumble.
For the first time in almost a decade, North Carolina will be the higher ranked team when the Blue Devils take on the Tar Heels tonight at 9 p.m.
Without the nation’s top golfer, the Blue Devils opened their spring season in a position to pick up where they left off in the fall.
Head coach Mike Krzyzewski announced Monday that forward David McClure will undergo surgery today on an injured left knee.
CHAPEL HILL — Duke did not look like a No. 1 team Monday night. In fact, in the first half it hardly looked like a team deserving of a top-25 ranking.
WINSTON-SALEM — With the game tied at 30, Mistie Williams spun from the left block into the lane and made a short layup. The Blue Devils scored on each of their next six possessions during a 16-0 run that put the game out of reach for Wake Forest.
Julius Hodge drove down the lane with his team clinging to a 45-43 lead with just under 17 minutes to go. He went up to shoot, but Daniel Ewing stuck his hand in and stripped the ball away for one of his three steals in the game. He collected the ball and hit Sean Dockery in stride for a layup, tying the game for the first time since the opening minutes.
Julius Hodge has never backed down from a challenge against the nation"s elite. Nor has he ever been afraid to speak his mind.
The biggest question mark surrounding the Blue Devils at the start of the season was their lack of depth. And during the winter break the problem worsened when Shavlik Randolph was forced to the bench with mononucleosis and his backup, Reggie Love, broke a bone in his right foot in the first half of the Clemson game.
Prior to the kickoff of the Duke-North Carolina football game Nov. 20, parents of seniors joined their sons on the field for the annual Senior Day ceremony. At the end of the line stood Richard and Diane Harris, parents of the late Micah Harris, who passed away this summer in a tragic car accident.
Despite a 20-10 record and a trip to the semifinals of the ACC Tournament, the Duke volleyball team did not receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament when the 64-team field was announced Sunday.