SPORTS
Men sneak by Clemson for 53rd straight ACC win
By Neelum Jeste | March 31, 2003The men's tennis team won its 53rd straight ACC regular season contest yesterday as it barely sneaked by Clemson 4-3.
The men's tennis team won its 53rd straight ACC regular season contest yesterday as it barely sneaked by Clemson 4-3.
After consecutive losses to No. 3 Georgetown and No. 7 North Carolina, the No. 9 men's lacrosse team (7-3) tore through Harvard's defense on their way to a 15-7 victory Saturday afternoon.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The last time Duke and Texas Tech met, it was each teams' first game of the 2001-2002 season.
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Dahntay Jones hoped that his fastbreak dunk off a Daniel Ewing pass would help to ignite a Duke run.
ANAHEIM, Calif. - The Fighting Irish threw their best punch at Arizona, but the Wildcats remained standing and struck back with a blow that sent Notre Dame reeling straight back to South Bend, Ind.
ANAHEIM, Calif. - As the men's basketball team found out the hard way, all good things come to an end.
Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors and her team may be reluctant to acknowledge it, but the sounds of "championship" are in the air.
Duke struggled to a tough 4-3 victory yesterday afternoon over No. 32 Wake Forest.
Duke baseball (13-13) handed the Davidson Wildcats (6-13) a rainy10-5 loss Wednesday at Jack Coombs Field in Durham, N.C.
The No. 1 women's (16-2) tennis team was narrowly upset by No. 5 Florida (17-2) yesterday in Gainsville, Fl., by a score of 4-3.
Yesterday, the men's tennis team did what it has done unfailingly since 1996; heac coach Jay Lapidus' squad beat an ACC opponent.
Think your life is tough? Try being Mike Krzyzewski or one of the players on this year's men's basketball team.
RALEIGH -- In what was anticipated to be a battle between the nation's top defense and offense, the Blue Devils looked like they were the team carrying both these labels Tuesday evening.
RALEIGH -- Word circulated quickly through Reynolds Coliseum prior to tipoff yesterday: Alana Beard's status in Duke's second round matchup against No.
The women's lacrosse team extended its winning streak to five with a convincing, 14-11 win over Georgetown, the defending national runners-up.
RALEIGH - En route to its quest for the national title, No. 1 seed Duke (32-1) must get through Utah tonight before making its sixth consecutive Sweet 16 appearance.
RALEIGH - Kim Smith is the best women's basketball player about whom no one has heard.
After an impressive finish to the indoor season and a respite from training over spring break, the track teams asserted themselves at two in-state meets this past weekend.
On the strength of sophomore Saras Arasu's 6-4, 7-6 victory at No. 3 singles, the No. 4 women's tennis team continued its dominance of ranked opponents with a 4-3 squeaker over No.