Deficit on glass keeps Duke from win
By Will Flaherty | January 29, 2008Duke seemingly did everything to earn a win over Tennessee Monday night. They forced 23 turnovers.
Duke seemingly did everything to earn a win over Tennessee Monday night. They forced 23 turnovers.
It's rare for a defending national champion to have strong motive to take down another team, but that's exactly the situation No. 2 Tennessee finds itself in as it faces No. 10 Duke tonight at 7...
Georgia Tech entered Thursday night's game against Duke riding an 18-game home winning streak. The Blue Devils came in with 27 consecutive victories over the Yellow Jackets.
Nearly three minutes into the second half of No. 12 Duke's contest against North Carolina State, it looked as if Cameron Indoor Stadium would witness a loss on the day of a jersey retirement for...
For its upcoming tilt against N.C. State, Duke is looking beyond the simple lessons of Aesop. Rather than resorting to the slow and steady pace of a tortoise or the fast and loose play of a hare,...
Christian Laettner. Jason Williams. Grant Hill. Alana Beard. The most sacred place on campus this side of the Duke Chapel-the Cameron rafters-is about to get a new name within its hallowed ranks:...
As the Blue Devils filed out of the Comcast Center with solemn faces and heads hung low, a scream on the loudspeakers could only rub salt in the wounds.
With the lights dimmed on a raucous crowd of 15,531 in the Comcast Center Monday night, two pillars of fire blazed at halfcourt as each Maryland starter was announced.
Seven minutes into the first half of Friday night's game against Florida State, Duke's starting backcourt of Abby Waner, Wanisha Smith and Jasmine Thomas was uncharacteristically quiet.
In preparing for her first ACC home opener, head coach Joanne P. McCallie is looking for one thing from her team more than anything: consistency.
Before Saturday's game against Miami, the No. 11 Blue Devils had won six straight games with relative ease.
With 12.1 seconds remaining in Saturday's game against Pittsburgh, Duke found itself in a familiar situation-a rough, ugly game that came down to the wire.
Playing in the Maggie Dixon Classic, held to promote awareness about sudden cardiac arrest, Duke was playing as if its own offensive heartbeat was fluttering.
When Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie described a team as physical, scrappy and gritty Thursday, she was not talking about Rutgers.
With a chance to seal the game at the free-throw line, Carrem Gay didn't let her memory drift back to the last time Duke faced Rutgers.
At her introductory press conference in April, a reporter asked newly-hired head coach Joanne P. McCallie about playing Texas, former head coach Gail Goestenkors' new team. Her answer was somewhat...
After the Blue Devils erased a 15-point first-half deficit against Penn State Sunday night to tie the game with 8.9 seconds left, Karima Christmas had a chance to give No. 11 Duke a one-point lead...
Abby Waner did not look like the player who had missed four consecutive games and then struggled to return to form over the previous two contests.
The last time the Blue Devils dropped two consecutive games by double-digits, Hanson was still on the radio.
The main page of Vanderbilt's athletics website was completely black Wednesday, except for a large banner of bolded white-and-gold print that read "Beat Duke."