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Max Rego is a Trinity junior and sports managing editor for The Chronicle's 117th volume.
It has been a hectic week for the Blue Devils, featuring the biggest win of the year so far and their first loss in close fashion.
Just two days after capturing the top spot in the AP Poll, the Blue Devils saw their perfect record go awry thanks to a late rally by Ohio State.
No. 1 Duke is on the road Tuesday for its first true away game of the season against Ohio State. This was supposed to be a ranked matchup heading into the year, but the Buckeyes have dropped two games already. That being said, the Blue Devils will have a tall task in front of them as three-point favorites to avoid the upset in Columbus, Ohio.
With the David Cutcliffe era officially coming in Durham, the focus now shifts to identifying who the next Duke head coach could be. Here is a list of 10 candidates that athletic director Nina King might have in mind, grouped into two categories. The main qualities we took into account were a potential coach's recruiting chops and ability to produce sustained winning.
Every football game, our beat writers Cam Polo, Jake Piazza, Max Rego, Alex Jackson, Micah Hurewitz and Jonathan Levitan will be here to give you their picks for Duke's upcoming matchup, and we'll keep track of their prediction records every week. This is Duke's last game of the 2021 season, and it enters this one against Miami as 21-point underdogs.
No. 5 Duke has a marquee matchup at 10:30 p.m. Friday against No. 1 Gonzaga, who is an 8.5-point favorite, and this contest almost has too many storylines to count.
Naturally, those inclined to root for and bet on the Blue Devils during Friday night’s collision between Duke and Gonzaga might be a little gun-shy in the wake of that show the Bulldogs just put on. But basketball is defined by matchups, and Duke, well let’s just say it is infinitely better suited to face off against the top-ranked team in the land than UCLA was.
As a date with No. 1 Gonzaga approaches, the Blue Devils are 6-0 and racking up stellar numbers on both ends of the floor. Which meant that it was time for another episode of Cameron Chronicles.
In a high-octane undercard to the Duke-Gonzaga showdown later this week, the Blue Devils pulled away in the second half en route to a 107-81 victory against The Citadel.
In what sounds like a broken record, the Blue Devils were once again uncompetitive in an ACC matchup, falling 62-22 to Louisville in front of a sparse crowd at Wallace Wade Stadium.
