Track posts solid showing at ACCs
By Elizabeth Colucci | February 19, 2001After two exhausting days at the ACC Championships, Duke track and field can boast four new school records and high hopes for what lies ahead.
After two exhausting days at the ACC Championships, Duke track and field can boast four new school records and high hopes for what lies ahead.
There would be no rematch of the nation's top two women tennis players. At least not this weekend.
The women's tennis team (3-0) showed why it is ranked third in the nation last weekend with convincing wins over No. 20 Ohio State (4-1) and No. 50 Indiana (6-1).
After easily defeating No. 30 Notre Dame 6-1 Saturday, the No. 5 Duke men's tennis team turned around and defeated No. 8 Illinois in hostile Champaign, Ill., by a score of 4-3.
It is 63-62 with seven seconds remaining, and Seton Hall has an opportunity to knock off No. 9 Syracuse on its home court.
Competing in Tempe, Ariz.
Although the indoor season is coming to a close, the Duke men's and women's track and field teams have only just begun to fulfill their potential.
Brand, Avery and Maggette. The great exodus of 1999.
When freshman heavyweight Levi Karnehm stepped onto the mat Saturday night against Maryland's James Taylor, the match was on the line.
The past, present and future of Duke basketball were in Cameron Indoor Stadium yesterday as the third-ranked Blue Devils (22-2, 10-1 in the ACC) defeated N.C. State (11-11, 3-7) 101-75.
N.C. State walked into Cameron Indoor Stadium at the wrong time.
This weekend Duke fencing hosted its annual fencing invitational, competing against Stanford, Notre Dame, Air Force, Ohio State and North Carolina-some of the nation's best teams.
Following Wednesday night's win over Gardner-Webb, when the Blue Devils started off strong and never looked back, it was questionable if Duke would be able to keep that pace over the weekend.
Nobody would have guessed yesterday that Duke had lost to North Carolina only three days prior.
The Duke men's and women's indoor track and field teams continued a steady streak of stellar performances this past weekend at the 14th annual Meyo Invitational in the Loftus Sports Complex at...
Eleven minutes into the second half, Florida State's 6-foot-10, 350-pound center Nigel Dixon wandered the key wearily, drenched in sweat, as he tried to keep an eye on Duke's Casey Sanders.
Deep in the heart of Texas, having seen all the members of his posse snipped off early, Duke senior Ramsey Smith tried to smoke the remaining competition.
Familiar face. Unfamiliar result.
The Blue Devils opened the 2001 season to mixed results.
He has been called overweight and slow and he has been accused of being the reason Duke did not start the preseason ranked No. 1.