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The No. 8 Blue Devils wanted to send their seniors out in style. And that's precisely what they did on Senior Day in a dominating 16-6 win over Boston College Saturday in Koskinen Stadium.
Another week, another game played against a recent national champion, another Duke blowout.
When the No. 8 Blue Devils take the field tomorrow, they will be concentrating on more than just ending their four-game losing streak.
When Duke squares off against Virginia Saturday at 6 p.m. in Charlottesville, the Blue Devils will see some of themselves in the Cavaliers in more ways than one.
It's hockey on grass. It's basketball with sticks. It's soccer with hitting. These are just some of the ways people try to characterize lacrosse.
They made the defending national champion Blue Jays look inexperienced, slow and, let's face it, downright bad.
As Duke has developed into a perennial powerhouse, it has been rare for the team to come in as a true underdog in any contest.
In a contest that Duke expected to come down to the wire, the Blue Devils destroyed perennial powerhouse Johns Hopkins in every facet of the game.
After falling in three consecutive games, the Blue Devils look to turn things around Sunday when they face top-ranked and undefeated Northwestern (10-0) at 1 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium.
Despite scoring fewer than 30 seconds into the game and breaking even statistically, the seventh-ranked Blue Devils couldn't overcome No. 12 Notre Dame
It's been six years since sixth-ranked Duke last dropped three straight games. But the Blue Devils face the possibility of adding on to their two-game losing streak today at 4 p.m. against No. 12...
Quinzani has scored in all 10 games this season, averaging more than a hat trick per outing.
It only would have been fitting for Duke to have made a comeback against Virginia. But the Blue Devils never even got close to avenging their devastating loss in last May's NCAA tournament...
One week before its national championship rematch against No. 8 Johns Hopkins, Duke (10-1) overcame a gritty Dartmouth squad at Long Island Saturday, 16-9.
When No. 3 Duke travels to Uniondale, N.Y. to play Dartmouth Saturday, it obviously won't be a home game.
It was the largest comeback victory in the history of the NCAA tournament-a stunning 14-13 win for Virginia, which overcame a ten-goal deficit in the final 20 minutes of play to beat Duke in the...
For No. 3 Duke, it was a welcome return to the win column after suffering its first loss to Georgetown last Saturday.
Before their 11-7 loss to Georgetown Saturday, the Blue Devils were the top-ranked team in the nation and were riding high, averaging over 17 goals per game.
Duke went into halftime of Saturday's game against Georgetown with momentum on its side, after Matt Danowski scored Duke's fifth conseuctive goal with two seconds left in the second quarter.
Despite a 90-second, three-goal run that began with just over six minutes left to play, Duke (7-2, 1-1 in the ACC) fell to No. 8 North Carolina, 16-14, Saturday in Chapel Hill.