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The doubles duo of Sean Sculley and Garrett Johns had an early round exit in the NCAA Doubles Championship.
As the legendary boxer Mike Tyson once said, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth,” and that’s really the only way to describe Duke’s performance against Florida State.
"We didn't need to get this far for me to know how good they are," Blue Devil head coach Dan Brooks said. "We could go out and have this championship, this match play day, again, and it might go a different direction and we might win them both. Hats off to Oklahoma State though, they played some great golf, that match was really something."
Sportswrap is your one-stop shop for everything Duke athletics, where we’ll recap how each of Duke’s sports currently in competition performed over the last week and give a brief look ahead. Here’s our recap for the week of May 18-24.
Late May gives way to one thing in college golf: champions being crowned. And much like the last few seasons, the Blue Devils are right in the thick of the chase for eternal glory.
Baseball may now be a game of spin rate, launch angle and exit velocities, but to this day there’s still not a quantifiable measurement to appropriately value getting hot at the right time.
He did it again. Somehow, someway, he did it again. Mr. Overtime, Broadway Joe, whatever you want to call him. But at this point, Joe Robertson deserves a nickname.
Anxious hitters, rattled pitchers, tough late-inning decisions—all occasional problems that hurt the Blue Devils throughout the season, but never with major consequence. That changed Sunday.
Despite nearly falling victim to a no-hitter and facing elimination, Duke is staying alive another day after prevailing in a marathon duel.
If the late-season comeback hasn’t been storybook enough for Duke, a team who used a similar run in 2019 to go all the way to the Super Regionals, the names and faces leading this surge makes it almost trite and contrived.
For the first 10 minutes, it looked like Duke was going to blow past undefeated Northwestern. But lacrosse is a game of runs, and the Blue Devils found themselves on the wrong side of one.
When the men’s lacrosse NCAA tournament bracket was announced May 9, it looked like No. 2-seed Duke was poised for a rematch against No. 7-seed Denver in the quarterfinals. But this is postseason lacrosse, where anything can happen.
It's officially a wrap for Duke's 2021 season.
The No. 13-seed Blue Devils defeated UNC Greensboro 2-0 in the opening game of the Athens, Ga., regional at Jack Turner Stadium Friday afternoon.
Friday morning marked Nina King’s official introduction to the Duke community.
Nina King's roots and impact throughout the broader world of collegiate athletics have never been more evident than in the wake of Wednesday afternoon’s surprise announcement, as King’s friends, colleagues and rivals alike took to social media to congratulate Duke’s new athletic director and to praise the school on a true slam dunk of a hire.
The NCAA announced its qualifiers for the 2021 NCAA regionals Thursday afternoon, with a number of Blue Devils finding their names announced.
Confidence was at its peak for the Blue Devils as they faced off against the rival Tar Heels. Unfortunately, North Carolina's play was also at its peak.
The love affair with Duke culminated in Kim signing her letter of intent in November 2017. At the time, it was a safe bet to assume that Kim would be a major factor in the future of the program. Once she arrived in Durham though, Kim was thrown into the fire quickly.
Duke is conference champions, but it still has work to do.
