CHOPPED DOWN
By Harrison Comfort | January 30, 2009TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - If offense wins games and defense wins championships, then No. 3 Duke discovered Thursday that it needs plenty more work with the latter to be a championship-level team. In a...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - If offense wins games and defense wins championships, then No. 3 Duke discovered Thursday that it needs plenty more work with the latter to be a championship-level team. In a...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - It was a night when Duke's stars could have propelled the Blue Devils to the top of the ACC. Instead, it was a senior from the Seminoles who boosted her team to first place in...
If Duke knows anything, it's that challenges on the court and opportunities to get better are not limited to matchups against its traditional rivals. They come in many forms. The No. 3 Blue Devils...
When a team has a combination of great shooting and great defense, it usually finds itself on the winning end. On Sunday against Georgia Tech, No. 4 Duke (17-1, 5-0 in the ACC) had just that,...
N.C. State head coach Kay Yow, 66, died Saturday morning after a decades-long fight with breast cancer. Yow announced Jan. 7 that she was too weak to coach anymore and would re-evaluate her...
Aspiring basketball players learn one golden rule when they are taught how to break a zone defense: Don't dribble through a zone. Somehow, that age-old lesson eluded Georgia Tech Sunday. From the...
Karima Christmas doesn't show much about herself on the surface. You wouldn't know she's a tenacious basketball player just from looking at her, save for her 5-foot-11 stature. And you wouldn't...
RALEIGH - When Duke's leading scorer Chante Black was sidelined with foul trouble for much of the first half, the Blue Devils called upon a player becoming more and more familiar with making big...
RALEIGH - What a difference a half makes. With N.C. State shooting lights-out and the Blue Devils looking sluggish on offense, Duke found itself trailing by nine at intermission. But the No. 4 Blue...