If you had told me when I stepped on East Campus as a freshman that I would be pursuing sports media and journalism after graduation, I would have looked at you like you were crazy. Sometimes life throws you curves.
When venture capitalist and majority owner of the Golden State Warriors Joe Lacob touted his team as “light-years ahead” in a profile for New York Times Magazine March 30, owners around the NBA had mixed reactions.
Duke basketball won't feel the same in the 2016-17 season without guard Derryck Thornton, columnist Brian Pollack writes.
With 4:42 remaining, it was all but over. Villanova had pulled ahead by 10 points and North Carolina seemed to be spiraling out of control, unable to buy a bucket or catch a break.
With Thursday's 82-68 loss to Oregon, my time watching the Blue Devils as a Duke student came to an end. But as the final buzzer faded and the sadness maintained, the tears never came.
When the 15 finalists for the Wooden Award—the annual prize for the most outstanding college basketball player—were announced Saturday, there was one notable name missing from the list.
This year’s Big Dance will likely be defined by the seasoned veteran that can solidify his legacy even further with a deep tourney run.
It’s that time of year again—baseball season. Yes, college basketball is entering the stretch run of conference play and a top-10 team loses seemingly every day to create an interesting continuum of parity as March Madness approaches.
Last week, someone upstairs decided it’d be fun to delete all the words between “Duke” and “underdog” except “is the”, and for the first time in this columnist’s memory, the Blue Devils played the role of the punchy, undermanned upstart as though they’d completely forgotten about last year’s success.
These days, it feels like being a woman and being an NFL fan are mutually exclusive.
Whoever said “Offense wins games, defense wins championships,” must have had the NBA All-Star Game in mind.
Last week, Mike Krzyzewski and his Blue Devils dropped out of the top 25 for the first time since the 2007-08 season.
We’ll certainly see Peyton Manning once again next season. For his sake, I hope it’s on a commercial for Papa Johns or Nationwide instead of on the football field.
This is a weird time to be alive.
Chaotic. Unpredictable. Carnage. These words are not being used to recount the end result of gladiators strapping on armor and ripping one another to shreds for the amusement of the Roman populus—they are descriptions of the 2015-16 college basketball season. But let me add another word to the mix: beautiful.
In a season in which no dominant team has emerged, the top 25 teams in the country combined for 16 losses last week. But the team that has yet to suffer a defeat will not have the chance to become the first undefeated national champion since Indiana in 1976.
In its first nine games, Duke posted an average rebounding margin of plus-6.6, and outrebounded every one of its opponents. The last 10 games tell a vastly different story—the Blue Devils have been outrebounded in all four losses during this stretch and six times overall, including three by double-digits.
A look at how far players from both teams have traveled to get to New York for Saturday's Pinstripe Bowl.
For two of the Blue Devils’ national championship winning freshmen from a year ago, the stability of the organizations that selected them may be much more important than where their names ended up on the draft board.
The next time you’re watching your team play, maybe think about it before proclaiming them the best in the land, and when it comes to preseason predictions and polls: Just say no.
