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Duke scored four goals in the first eight minutes Sunday and never looked back.
In many ways, Duke's performance against the second-ranked Orange mirrored last weekend’s matchup against the top-ranked Tar Heels, albeit on a slightly different time scale.
Robertson scored his 100th career goal to complete a hat trick in the first 20 minutes of play Saturday afternoon. Then he decided that wasn’t enough, and scored four more.
There may not have been any sun shining Friday night for the Blue Devils. Instead, it was the essence of the team itself that provided a spot of light, despite the loss.
When Duke found itself down 5-4, head coach Kerstin Kimel sent in LeRose, and the rest is history.
Is there an absolute recipe for a perfect lacrosse team? No. But do the Blue Devils have one that makes Martha Stewart look like an amateur? Yes.
Joe Robertson went 630 days without playing in an official game for Duke men's lacrosse. But on Saturday he finally returned to the field, and made an immediate impact.
While Duke boasts the No. 14 recruiting class in the nation this season, the real difference-makers Friday evening were the team’s more experienced players.
Men’s lacrosse isn’t the only team on campus returning a wealth of experience and adding a top graduate transfer—women’s lacrosse is doing the same.
As new players get acclimated, Duke relied on its depth pieces to score and pull the Blue Devils to their second win.
For the first 35 minutes of Duke’s season opener against Denver, all the hype surrounding the 2021 Blue Devils seemed like a bit of an exaggeration.
O'Neill has been lauded as a generational recruit, but will join a Duke squad that won't need him to be an alpha scorer right away.
Sowers has proven himself as the best player in college lacrosse, but to cement himself as one of the greatest to ever play, the team-first star is well aware that it all comes down to hoisting the trophy on Memorial Day Weekend.
Duke enters the season as favorites to bring home the program's fourth national championship.
There’s no denying it—this year’s Duke squad enters the 2021 season as one of the most hyped college lacrosse teams in recent memory, one that has the talent to be remembered for a very long time.
After the team announced its final 2020-21 roster Friday, it looks like the Blue Devils will have a good chance at repeating their 2020 success next spring.
With the official announcement of returning seniors and graduate students, Duke is prime to be one of the best teams in college lacrosse next season, with the program's fourth national championship certainly in the cards.
Rosenzweig leaves Pennsylvania as the program’s all-time leading scorer with 247 career points.
The Blue Devils have a lot to look forward to next year.
It looked like Duke had finally broken through and were on track to make its first NCAA tournament since 2016.