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This weekend two high school seniors-Kelly Cain and Karima Christmas-will make official visits to Duke as they try to sift through a number of scholarship offers and decide where to lend their...
For years the Triangle has been known for its men's basketball. Mike Krzyzewski, Dean Smith, Jim Valvano and others have made the area one of the nation's most famous for men's competition on any...
Beard, a Blue Devil from 2001 to 2004, is a member of the USA Women's Senior National Team that began practicing Tuesday and will continue until Sept. 6 in preparation for the FIBA World...
Former Blue Devil star Alana Beard is coming home to Cameron Indoor Stadium Tuesday, and she's bringing the rest of the 2006 USA Women's World Championship Team with her.
Even though the Blue Devils fell just short of their ultimate goal of a National Championship this season, the jubilant scene outside Cameron was a sign that the women's basketball program was...
The Charlotte Sting made Currie the third overall pick in the WNBA Draft, while her teammate Mistie Williams landed with the Houston Comets after being selected in the second round. Jessica Foley...
Playing on the biggest stage in the sport, the Blue Devils squandered a 13-point second-half lead to a young and talented Maryland squad that edged Duke, 78-75, in the National Championship game.
Maryland's underclassmen showed no fear leading the Terrapins to the program's first National Championship Tuesday night.
For Currie and the rest of her teammates, the prospect of winning a National Championship has been looming overhead all season. Deeper and more balanced than in years past, Duke has held the goal...
The Blue Devils (31-3) rode a dominating defensive effort to a 64-45 victory over LSU (31-4) in the national semifinals Sunday night at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston. With the win, the Blue...
BOSTON - Going into Sunday night's Final Four game against LSU, head coach Gail Goestenkors had a plan for the Blue Devils. It worked.
For Louisiana State, it's been a long, but ultimately rewarding, road back to the Final Four. With their 62-59 win over Stanford Monday, the top-seeded Lady Tigers (31-3) advanced to the national...
When Tennessee defeated Duke, 66-56, in the semifinals of the 2003 Final Four, the four players on the Blue Devils' current roster that were part of that team assumed they would soon be back. It...
Abby Waner came to Duke as a phenom, having won several high school National Player of the Year awards. But 16 games into her college career, Waner was coming off the bench and her confidence had...
The Big One. The National Championship. Some coaches walk right into it as if it's not even a challenge. Purdue's Carolyn Peck beat Duke in the 1999 NCAA final in just her second year as a head...
Thrown into a tough regional bracket, top-seeded North Carolina had to beat national powerhouse Tennessee to get to the Final Four. In the second round, UNC had to take down Vanderbilt in the...
Maryland has been surprising people all year, but the Terrapins are not surprised at all to be in the Final Four-in fact, they expected it. When their Regional Final game against No. 5 seed Utah...
The Blue Devils managed to advance to the Final Four in spite of their lowest offensive output of the year. Entering the game as the highest scoring team in the nation, averaging 87.7 points per...
Searching for the team's first national title, Duke squeaked by Connecticut in an overtime nailbiter, 63-61, in the Elite Eight Tuesday night to advance to the Final Four.
Unhappy with the treatment she was receiving for her injury and her situation at Duke, the Columbus, Ohio, native decided to transfer to Connecticut. And after sitting out last season due to NCAA...