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No. 1 Blue Devils roll over No. 2 Longhorns
By Sarah Kwak | December 10, 2005EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - There was no stopping J.J. Redick Saturday.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - There was no stopping J.J. Redick Saturday.
When the preseason college basketball polls were released in early November, all eyes immediately turned to Dec. 10 and a game that would potentially pit the nation's top-two teams against each other.
During the women's soccer team's NCAA Tournament second-round match Nov. 13 against Yale, senior Carolyn Ford was preparing for overtime with the score tied at one and time winding down.
When a player puts on a Duke jersey and steps out onto Coach K Court, he expects to win and to have a chance to compete for a national title.
Head coach Mike Krzyzewski could only roll his eyes and turn back to the bench as if to say, "What are they doing?".
Despite the prospect of having to face No. 1 Nebraska in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, members of the volleyball team were never intimidated.
In a game that many expected the Blue Devils to cruise through while riding an emotional high from Sunday's last-second victory over Virginia Tech, Duke struggled out of the gate and was never able...
FORT WORTH, Texas - It took Laura Kurz's inspired play and Lindsey Harding's best Sean Dockery impersonation to pull No. 2 Duke out of a 19-minute first-half funk and past TCU (2-5) Tuesday, 92-52.
It wasn't pretty, but No. 1 Duke defeated the University of Pennsylvania 72-59 Wednesday night.
The No. 1 Blue Devils have yet to play like the nation's top team.
Less than 20 years after Maryland introduced the first black head basketball coach in ACC history, the conference has moved to the national forefront in the diversity of its basketball coaches.
AUSTIN, Texas - It's not often a 2-4 opponent legitimately scares the second-ranked team in the nation.
This past Saturday, I was taking a quick breather from my jog around the neighborhood when I saw four children, each about 10 years old, playing two-on-two football.
AUSTIN, Texas - Without Mistie Williams in the game, Duke had trouble exploiting its size advantage in the post.
AUSTIN, Texas - In a game in which head coach Gail Goestenkors pleaded with her team multiple times to "get tough" in the first half, the play got awfully tough in the second period.
Not until after Sean Dockery hit a running 40-footer to win Sunday's thriller and the initial pandemonium died down did the Cameron Crazies finally start chanting the senior's name.
After defeating American in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Friday night for its first postseason victory since 2001, Duke saw its season came to an end Saturday.
This weekend, the wrestling team traveled to Las Vegas to face new opponents in a new setting.
Sean Dockery hit a 40-foot shot to give Duke a 77-75 victory over unranked Virginia Tech Sunday night.