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YouTube Gold: Kon Knueppel On The Tonight Show!
You know things are going well for Kon Knueppel, but if you weren’t a Duke fan or maybe not even a big basketball fan and how would you know? One way would be if he started popping up on TV, as he does here on the Tonight Show. He talks about his family inviting his […]
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More Thoughts On Duke’s Win Over Florida
Are you still buzzing after last night’s win over Florida? It’s happening across Duke Nation after one of the most exciting games in recent Cameron history. And let’s give Florida props: that’s a really good team. Thomas Haugh looks like an absolute pro. Interesting significa here: Haugh is 22, four years older than Cooper Flagg. […]
2 months ago | 1 read
The Early NET Rankings Remain Delightfully Quirky
Yale is not one of the Top 25 teams in college basketball. An obvious sentiment? Not if the NCAA’s early NET Rankings are to believed, which have the Bulldogs rated No. 25 in the country. Kidding aside, the early NET rankings have historically been quirky, as I’ve written about before. This year’s edition has a […]
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ACC Roundup – A Big Night For The League
In the first day of ACC/SEC Challenge, the ACC performed far better than it did last year: Syracuse knocked off Tennessee 62-60, UNC took care of Kentucky 67-64, Virginia Tech took out South Carolina in overtime, 86-83, Miami beat Chris Beard’s Ole Miss 75-66 and Notre Dame got by Mark Mitchell and Missouri, 76-71. Duke […]
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YouTube Gold: Isaiah Evans’ Greatest Clutch Moment
Duke’s win over Florida was intense and dramatic. You could pick any number of moments – 11 blocked shots, multiple great plays by Cameron Boozer, or Boogie Fland coughing the ball up at the end and call them the most dramatic plays. Still, we’re pretty sure that most Duke fans would agree with us that […]
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The Beast Of The East And The Best Of The West: Rookies Knueppel, Flagg Honored By The NBA
This is so cool: Former Duke stars Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel are now the first draftees from the same school to be named Rookies of the Month in the same month. Flagg is the West Rookie of the Month while Knueppel represents the East. As the image here notes, their stats are very close: […]
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DBR Podcast #776 – Slim Shocks The Gators In An Instant Classic!
What is it about the ACC-SEC Challenge and Isaiah Evans? After burying Auburn under a barrage of threes a year ago, he turns the tables by hitting almost nothing against Florida this year… until the moment when it mattered most. The Duke Basketball Roundup has a joyous recap of a thrilling game that was as tense […]
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Gator Wrangling: Duke Slips By Florida In A Thriller
When you’re a kid and you fall in love with a sport, it’s magical. As you get older though, other things push in and the sport, though always there, gets pushed back. Every so often though, you see a game that reminds you of why you fell for that sport in the first place. Duke […]
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Looking For A Duke Christmas Present? Look No Further, Because You Can’t Beat This
As longtime DBR readers will know, Jason Robichau is sort of our official artist. He’s done some amazing work over the years. If you look here, you’ll see a couple of his earlier Duke works, including one of Shane Battier blocking a UNC player, which is really good. There’s also a beautiful lithograph of Coach […]
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Now In Year 4, Scheyer’s Teams Have Shown Some Definite Statistical Tendencies
In his four seasons as Duke’s head coach, Jon Scheyer’s teams have taken on consistent definition despite riding a churning tide of personnel turnover. For instance, through the end of November, with about a quarter of the 2025-26 season under their belts, his Blue Devils characteristically made more than half their shots from the floor, […]
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YouTube Gold: Basketball In The 1920’s
James Naismith, who was born in 1861 laid down the first 13 rules for basketball in 1891, when he was about 10 years younger than LeBron James is now. Although Naismith originally asked for boxes, a janitor brought peach baskets instead and we got basketball and rims instead of boxball and, well, something else. Anyway, […]
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DBR Podcast #775: Preparing For The Gator And…An ACC Title Game?!
We’re back with Episode 775 where we begin with our preview of the Florida Gators and NO WE DON’T! DUKE’S IN THE ACC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME! All plans to start with the Florida preview were thrown out the window the second an SMU kicker sent his potential game-tying field goal yards right of the uprights, sending […]
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Next Up – Florida In The ACC/SEC Challenge
Date 12/2 || Time 7:30 || Venue Cameron Indoor Stadium || Video ESPN Duke’s opponent in the ACC/SEC Challenge is defending national champs Florida. Florida lost a fair amount from last year, not least of all Walter Clayton, who had a terrific season last year, including the most critical play of the national championship game […]
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ACC Roundup – A Look Ahead To This Week’s ACC/SEC Challenge
It’s almost time for the ACC/SEC Challenge and hopefully it’ll go better than last year’s disaster. Let’s put the matchups, times and networks out first and then we’ll take a look at them: Wednesday Syracuse had some moments in the Players Era Championship, taking Houston to overtime and giving Kansas a solid game. They didn’t […]
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Twitter Gold: Kon Mania Building
Honestly, Duke fans were probably confident that Kon Knueppel would do well in his rookie season in the NBA, but probably most of us figured he’d spend a year getting his feet wet and emerge as a fine player as his career develops. But this? Who expected this? Hype can always get out of hand, […]
2 months ago | 4 reads
Duke Football: On To The ACC Championship!
Every so often, it’d be cool to be a fly on the wall. And right about now, it’d be fun to be a fly on the wall in various places around the ACC to hear what people are saying this morning. Stuff like this: “Bobby Joe, what the hell happened? We got Virginia in the […]
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ACC Roundup – Georgia Tech Falls To Drake
In Saturday’s ACC Action, just one game as attention begins to shift to the ACC/SEC Challenges. And in that one game, Georgia Tech fell to Drake, 84-74 in the Consolation game of the Emerald Coast Classic. Jalen Quinn had a great game as the former Loyola Rambler racked up 31 points and also passed out […]
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CBS Looks At An Interesting Duke Basketball Adjustment
Duke will play defending national champs Florida in the ACC/SEC Challenge and while we’ll get to that in ad day or two, we thought it was worth it to look at this article from CBS Sports and pass it on. The article is about how teams have adjusted their lineups, and one of the schools […]
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Twitter Gold: Jared McCain Is Back!
As Duke fans know, Jared McCain was a leading candidate for Rookie of the Year last year until a knee injury finished his season. Then this season, he had a wrist injury that kept him out of action. Well, he’s back now, and it looks like he’s picking up where he left off. Wearing the […]
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Duke 49, Wake Forest 32: Five Critical Plays
Duke defeated Wake Forest 49 – 32 to finish the regular season at 7 wins and 5 losses. For the second season in a row, Duke swept the Big Four competition as Head Coach Manny Diaz improved to 6-0 against North Carolina, N.C. State and Wake Forest. Duke played clean football this afternoon with zero […]
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Arkansas Was Fun, But Hardly A Perfect Win
Most Duke fans watched the win over Arkansas and probably had some fairly universal reactions: 1) we won. Yay! 2) Day-um Boozer! and 3) take that Calipari. Old habits die hard. As much fun as it was though, it wasn’t perfect. In fact, there is a particular point of concern. As we all saw, Boozer […]
2 months ago | 1 read
ACC Roundup – Two Buzzer Beaters And A Couple Of Blowouts
In Friday’s ACC Action, Virginia Tech fell to VCU, 86-68, Wake Forest held on against Northeastern 86-73, Virginia trumped Queens 94-69, Florida State got trashed by Texas A&M 95-59, Miami took out Georgetown 78-65, Stanford nipped Saint Louis 78-77 in thrilling fashion, Clemson vandalized Alabama A&M 92-56, DePaul handled Georgia Tech 75-61, SMU got by […]
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