Wednesday night, No. 3-seed Duke hosted 14th-seed Virginia Tech in Koskinen Stadium for the first round of the ACC tournament. The Blue Devils fought through lockdown defense for a 2-0 victory that will keep them at home for a quarterfinal matchup against California Sunday.
As No. 1 Duke women's soccer and No. 2 Duke men's soccer head into ACC play, here's a review of their seasons and a look at the upcoming tournaments.
Joined by the Duke band, the Blue Devils delivered an astonishing 4-0 performance Friday night over the team that lost in the finals of the College Cup last year.
At home in Koskinen Stadium Tuesday, the fifth-ranked Blue Devils took on the Lancers for their penultimate game of the regular season. Duke’s early spark led the team to a 4-1 victory over Longwood.
Mesalles balances on the precipice of his college career’s end, fast approaching the time of year when any game could be his last. He’s figuring out how to captain a team, which means raising his quiet voice. The one thing around which there exists no doubt is that he will never have a season like this — with Duke — again.
Friday night, No. 10 Duke overtook Virginia Tech 1-0, continuing its undefeated road record and tallying its fourth straight shutout in a row.
It was a 5-0 victory for the tenth-ranked Blue Devils Tuesday night as they cruised past Queens in Koskinen Stadium, a scoreline emblematic of the team’s utter dominance on both ends of the ball.
Halfway through, the Blue Devils were knotted with Howard at zero. By game’s end, it was 10-0 Duke.
At home in Koskinen Stadium, No. 16 Duke played to a 0-0 draw against in-state opponents Wake Forest. The Blue Devils entered the match without a home win in over a month, while the Demon Deacons came into the game in good form.
On a chilly fall evening at Rudd Field in Elon, N.C., No. 16 Duke outlasted the Phoenix 2-1 in a resilient second-half comeback.
No. 18 Duke, finally playing at home in Koskinen Stadium, took on No. 16 SMU Friday night in a frenzied matchup that ended in a 2-2 draw.
On Luckhurst’s heels once again, the Blue Devils took down the Wolfpack on its home Dail Soccer Field Friday night in Raleigh.
With fall sports thoroughly underway, The Chronicle is polling its readers every week via its Sportswrap newsletter to highlight one Blue Devil athlete’s outstanding performance. This week’s spotlight goes to Adam Luckhurst of Duke men’s soccer.
It was a pretty day in Stanford’s Cagan Stadium but an ugly match. Duke held onto a lead until the last 15 minutes of the game, which ended in a 2-2 tie.
At home in Koskinen Stadium for only the second time this season, the Blue Devils lost 2-1 to their spookiest Tobacco Road rival. No. 11 North Carolina broke Duke’s 23-game regular-season home undefeated streak, dating back to 2021.
In a game characterized by flaring tempers and mountains of fouls, the Blue Devils managed to scrape out a 1-0 win in Charlottesville and grab an ever-important first conference victory.
Duke found itself blown off course Friday as it fell 3-2 to Grand Canyon in its first non-conference regular-season loss since 2021. But in Koskinen Stadium Sunday, the Blue Devils trampled Division-III Averett, allowing just one goal from the Cougars while scoring 14 to tie their program record set in 1994 for most in a single game.
The Blue Devils took on San Diego Thursday and UC San Diego Sunday; they tied the first match 2-2 and won the second 3-2 thanks to sophomore Ulfur Bjornsson's hat trick.
In the wake of several significant departures — senior captains Nick Pariano, Antino Lopez, Lewis McGarvey and Amir Daley included — finding those veterans seemed a tall task. Kerr, however, has taken full advantage of his ability to recruit graduate transfers, such that his roster may have more veteran leaders now than it ever has. Graduate students comprise 10 of Kerr’s 32 players, and only two of them — Cameron Kerr and Luke Thomas — are returners to Duke.
While Duke soccer may be in the offseason, several former Blue Devils are kicking off their MLS campaigns. The Blue Zone is here to break down the performances of some key alumni.
