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Several years ago, the ACC made a move that would change the sports world as we know it and make one weekend in February one of the greatest in all of sports. The first UNC/Duke matchup was historically on a weekday night up until the 2020 season when the ACC moved it to the first […]
From Tar Heel Blog | 6 days ago | 1 read
There are some great what-ifs in Duke Basketball history. What if Bob Verga hadn’t gotten sick just before the 1966 Final Four? What if Duke had played Texas Western instead of Kentucky? Could Mike Lewis have dealt with Big Daddy Lattin? We’ll never know. What if Bob Bender hadn’t had appendicitis during the 1980 NCAA […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 6 days ago | 0 reads
You know that concern/complaint Duke fans have had this season about the Blue Devils starting slow? For at least one night, you can strike and reverse that, because Duke started Tuesday’s game against Boston College brilliantly, but trailed off significantly later. Not that it mattered. Duke was by far the better team in this one […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 7 days ago | 0 reads
As of Sunday, the calendar has now flipped to February. We are inching towards crunch time on the 2025-26 college basketball season. You know things are starting to heat up when the first UNC-Duke men’s game comes on the calendar, as it will this week. As we continue to get closer to March and the […]
From Tar Heel Blog | 7 days ago | 0 reads
This weekend, the North Carolina men’s basketball has quite the important event. On Saturday, they’re set to take on Duke in the first rivalry clash of this season. However before that, they had a game on Monday night against Syracuse to get through. There were two main objectives for UNC against the Orange. One was […]
From Tar Heel Blog | 7 days ago | 1 read
Today’s four No. 1 seeds, Arizona, UConn, Duke, and Michigan, have a combined record of 83-3 heading into the first week of February, with the Wolverines solidifying their place among the elite of the elite by defeating both 2 seed Nebraska at Crisler and 3 seed Michigan State in East Lansing. The quartet of No. […]
From Blogging the Bracket | 7 days ago | 0 reads
The game before the first Duke game has not been kind to North Carolina of late. In it’s past six contests before the Duke game leading up to the game against Syracuse, the Tar Heels were 1-5 with the one win being an overtime road win against Louisville. The five losses were mostly to not […]
From Tar Heel Blog | 7 days ago | 0 reads
It’s Duke week. In fact, with last night’s game thankfully behind us, the countdown to Saturday’s UNC-Duke game has officially begun. We’re all working ourselves up in anticipation of the biggest rivalry in American sports and we’ll have plenty of coverage leading up to that big night. Of course, on another corner of the Triangle, […]
From Tar Heel Blog | 7 days ago | 1 read
Next up for Duke is Boston College and while BC is struggling again, the culture of this program is hard work. Earl Grant has not been able to recruit top-shelf talent, but he gets guys who are willing to play hard and that sometimes lead to surprises. In their last four games, the Eagles took […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 8 days ago | 0 reads
Duke ran its already impressive win streak to 13 with an 80-44 Sunday win over Wake Forest. Perhaps most impressive was forcing 31 turnovers from the Demon Deacons. It was a tough day for freshman guard Milan Brown, who had 7 personally. Obviously Wake wasn’t able to get much of a rhythm going; the Deacs […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 9 days ago | 2 reads
If it’s not stunning, it’s only because it’s become familiar. Still, it remains striking every time 6-9 freshman Cameron Boozer, one of the ACC’s rebounding leaders, steps out to the perimeter and calmly, smoothly launches and makes a 3-pointer as an organic part of Duke’s offense. Boozer, as is well known by now, possesses a […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 13 days ago | 2 reads
For people who never saw him play, it would be hard to explain Duke’s Jason Williams. Built like a fireplug with a low center of gravity and also strong and explosive, Williams could do anything he wanted on the basketball court. Once against UCLA, he scored 17 straight points. And while he could be flakey […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 13 days ago | 2 reads
This time was supposed to be different. Louisville with Mikel Brown was supposed to be a much tougher out. That’s what we thought, anyway. We thought it would be a really tight, challenging game. Not so much, as Duke ran the Cardinals out of the gym, 83-52. And Brown wasn’t much of a factor at […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 15 days ago | 3 reads
Well, at least Louisville doesn’t have to worry about how they blew a sizable halftime lead after this one. Duke led by 10 at the break and did what they have done consistently to the Cardinals in the second half, rolling to an 83-52 rout that marked the largest margin of defeat of the Pat […]
From Card Chronicle | 15 days ago | 1 read
With 4:30 left in the opening half, Louisville had overcome. Overcome a weekend of travel uncertainty because of weather. Overcome having to fly to Tobacco Road on game day. Overcome a torrid start by the Blue Devils in Cameron Indoor. Overcome a scoring drought of seven minutes or so, when the Cards missed nine field […]
From Card Chronicle | 15 days ago | 2 reads
Let’s notch the biggest win this program has seen in some time. Go Cards.
From Card Chronicle | 15 days ago | 2 reads
College basketball was quite different in 1988. The Age of Duke was just a few years old and no one understood that it was an historical epoch. Duke hadn’t even won a national championship at that point. And the old Big East was a monster. Georgetown and Villanova had won national championships. St. John’s was […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 15 days ago | 4 reads
Duke absolutely dominated on the boards and in the paint at they thrashed Wake Forest by 21 points, 90-69 to remain undefeated in the ACC. The #1 Duke podcast around, the Duke Basketball Roundup, has a complete breakdown of all the numbers and the vibes from this contest on Episode 790, with special shout-outs to […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 16 days ago | 1 read
Bobby Hurley is not doing well at Arizona State. The Duke legend has definitely had his moments at ASU but things have not gone very well lately. After a loss to West Virginia, Hurley was more honest than most coaches are even after they are out of a job. Hurley surely didn’t hold back, saying […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 16 days ago | 4 reads
Wake Forest played well for much of the first half, leading for the first 13:18, but Duke erupted in the last 6:42 to make it clear that there would be no upset in Cameron, on their way to a 90-69 win. In fact, Duke ripped off a 16-2 run that should capture any basketball fan’s […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 17 days ago | 3 reads
In 1987, Duke was moving towards Blue Blood status and Wake Forest was in the Bob Staack era which unfortunately for the Deacons, didn’t end well. However, the Demon Deacons had a very dangerous weapon in Muggsy Bogues, the legendary 5-3 guard who would go on to a legendary 14-year NBA career. And in January […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 18 days ago | 1 read
With plenty of ice (and maybe snow) on the way, Duke prepares to welcome the Wake Forest Demon Deacons to Cameron on Saturday and the Duke Basketball Roundup is here with a preview of what to expect. Wake’s attack begins with superstar soph Juke Harris but there is much more to know about the Deacs […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 18 days ago | 2 reads
In 1986, Mike Krzyzewski took Duke to the Final Four for the first time since the 1978 team got there. Naturally, the immediate question after the championship game, which Duke narrowly lost to Louisville, was whether Duke was a flash in the pan. Was this a one-time thing, like it turned out to be for […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 20 days ago | 1 read
When Mike Krzyzewski took the Duke job, it took him a little while to figure out how to recruit here. At first he swung for the fences and cast a wide net, most of whom he missed on. One of those was Chris Mullin, who chose St. John’s after a tremendous high school career first […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 22 days ago | 4 reads
Duke hammered the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 93-46 Sunday, and extended their winning streak to 10. One of the defining characteristics of Kara Lawson’s Duke program is a rugged defense and that was in play here: Duke forced 15 turnovers and held Georgia Tech to 3-15 on three point attempts (20%) and 16-58 overall (28%). […]
From Duke Basketball Report | 23 days ago | 4 reads