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It would be hard for people who never experienced Jason Williams’ run at Duke to understand just how good he was. He was built like a fire hydrant, short by basketball standards, really strong, and with a low center of gravity. He was also explosive as hell. Take this game against Kentucky in the 2001 […]
Clemson understandably focused on Cameron Boozer, who has had a tremendous freshman year, but his teammates stepped up and put the game out of reach in the second half on the way to a 67-54 win. The #20 Tigers stayed with Duke for the first 12:00 or so before the Blue Devils began to pull […]
We’re as excited about Cooper Flagg as anyone is. He’s having an insane year and he’s doing things that no one reasonably expected him to do this early. He was expected to be an elite defender but his offense has developed far beyond what most people expected. However, when it comes down to the arguments […]
In Saturday’s ACC Action, Georgia Tech flies up to South Bend to take on Notre Dame, Cal is on the Northeast will take on Boston College, Pitt is at UNC, Florida State takes on Virginia Tech in Cassell, SMU plays Syracuse, Stanford meets the Joel as the Cardinal takes on Wake Forest, and Miami gets […]
We’ve talked before about how Connie Hawkins was mistreated by the basketball establishment. He came out of New York City’s Boys High School and accepted a scholarship to Iowa in 1960, only to get caught up in a point shaving scandal that he clearly had no part of. It was based in and around New […]
Date 2/14 || Time 12:00 Noon || Venue Basketball Paradise || Video ESPN Clemson comes to Cameron Saturday and that’s probably going to be a good one. Clemson is much better than most people expected, but our feeling is that as long as they have Brad Brownell, they’ll be fine. And they certainly have been […]
Bad break (no pun intended) for UNC basketball as freshman star Caleb Wilson suffered a fracture in his left hand in Saturday’s loss at Miami. You may have noticed that after a certain point, he had his hand taped, and everyone believed that it was not a big deal. As it turns out, it is, […]
For Duke fans, Christian Laettner’s shot against Kentucky – now just called The Shot – is a permanent highlight in program history. When they play it every March during the NCAA tournament, well, we love it. Obviously that’s not the case in Kentucky, where it remains a permanent wound. We constantly see Laettner’s name come […]
One of the most interesting, and best coached, teams in the ACC comes to Cameron on Saturday in the Clemson Tigers. The Duke Basketball Roundup crew takes a look ahead at the battle between the ACC’s #1 team and the club that is right on their heels. Head coach Brad Brownell has put together a […]
The Duke Basketball Roundup once again welcomes former ESPN the Magazine and The Athletic writer/editor Jordan Brenner to the show. The host of The Underdogs podcast has watched Duke for years and knows how to look at the team through an analytical lens. His insight is always on point. As he has several times over […]
In Wednesday’s ACC Action, Syracuse survived Cal in double-overtime 107-100, Stanford got by BC 70-64, Wake Forest took out Georgia Tech 83-67, and Virginia Tech upset Clemson 76-66. Even more impressively, this was a huge road win. This game was nip and tuck for about 18 minutes before the Hokies pushed out in front on […]
After a terrific rookie season with the Philadelphia 76ers which was unfortunately cut short by a knee injury, former Blue Devil Jared McCain had another issue this season with a hand injury. And since Philly’s backcourt is pretty solid, they decided to trade the promising second-year player to Oklahoma City…and that might have been shortsighted. […]
Let’s just be honest. Pitt gave Duke more trouble than expected in their matchup on Tuesday night. The Duke Basketball Roundup dives into what was a sluggish, but ultimately successful outing for a Duke team missing Big Pat, its main man in the middle. Jason and Donald start out talking about the guards who led […]
In Tuesday’s ACC Action, Virginia nipped Florida State 61-58, SMU survived Notre Dame 89-84, and Miami took care of UNC, 75-66. Apparently one good court storming deserves another, but in Miami, no one got hit in the face. We’d guess that UNC had a tough time matching the emotion we saw in Saturday’s dramatic upset […]
Like most Tar Heels, Rasheed Wallace was not popular with Duke fans, but in the NBA, he emerged as an interesting and provocative figure. Over a 16-year career, Wallace played for the Washington Bullets, Portland Trail Blazers, Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics, and New York Knicks. In this video, Wallace explains “The Slam Heard […]
Duke’s win over Pitt was not flawless. It was not one we will talk about in years to come. But it was an important win, and some really good things happened—not least of all succeeding while Pat Ngongba had to sit due to a wrist injury. Pitt started out hot, running out to a 12-6 […]
After Saturday’s loss in Chapel Hill, Duke is off to Pitt to take the measure of Jeff Capel’s Panthers. And that’s an interesting team. There’s no question that at 9-15, Pitt is struggling. They’ve only won twice since December 30th, with a solid win over Georgia Tech, 89-66, and an 80-76 overtime win over Wake […]
There’s plenty of time left in the 2026 season, plenty of testing to be done and proving to be achieved. But enough games have been played, tests met, to offer a fairly clear gauge of the prowess of this year’s Duke team. Frankly, despite their gaudy record and No.4 spot in the AP poll, at […]
This was salting Carthage. This was sacking Rome. This was the Mongols sweeping down the plains and terrifying all the other teams nations in the land. Okay, the ACC. But still. That’s how good Louisville was in Monday night’s win which could be summed up in two words: He’s baaaaack. Mikel Brown, who had not […]
As we mentioned the other day, we’ve really lost track of Maryland since they left the ACC in 2014 for the Big Ten. What we do see periodically are mostly the problems, although Derick McQueen’s buzzer beater last March was impressive. However, that was against the backdrop of the ugly breakup with coach Kevin Willard, […]
The Detroit Pistons visited the Charlotte Hornets on Monday night and to say things got a bit heated is an understatement. In the third quarter, Jalen Duren drove to the basket and was fouled by Charlotte’s Moussa Diabate. They got into it and it just spiraled from there as a major brawl broke out. Isaiah […]
Duke has to put this past weekend’s heartbreaking loss behind them, as they travel to take on Pitt and fellow Brotherhood member Jeff Capel on Tuesday night. We preview the game against the Panthers on DBR Bites #142. We do go back to the court storming briefly to get an update on the staffer that […]
Normally we don’t like to focus on the personal here, but our family has been associated with Duke since near the beginning of the school and with Duke Basketball for over 60 years. So when things happen, DBR is the logical way to tell a lot of people news in one easy shot. So here’s […]
Only one game Monday night but it’s a good one as NC State visits Louisville. State is on a six-game win streak, something it hasn’t done since David Thompson wore fire truck red in the 1970’s. If you don’t know about Thompson, know this: he was the player Michael Jordan aspired to be. State is […]
Luke Kennard has been in the NBA for a little more than a third of his life now, which is kind of wild to think about. He’s moved around, starting with Detroit, then playing for the LA Clippers, the Memphis Grizzlies and the Atlanta Hawks before being traded to the Lakers just before the trade […]