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Kon Knueppel has had a remarkable rookie season, but he was initially viewed as something of a consolation prize. His Duke teammate (and roommate) Cooper Flagg was the great prize of last year’s draft. Called a generational talent, he was taken by Dallas with the first pick, and Knueppel fell to the #4 pick, where […]
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An Achilles injury is one of the most devastating injuries an athlete can suffer. Knee injuries used to be nearly as bad, but arthroscopic surgery has really changed that. Treatment has advanced, but Achilles injuries are still very difficult to overcome. So when former Blue Devil Jayson Tatum collapsed in a heap last year during […]
Two more big honors for Blue Devils as Malik Brown won the Lefty Driesell Award for the nation’s best defender and Cameron Boozer added to his haul with the Lute Olson National Player of the Year Award and the Kyle Macy Freshman of the Year Award from CollegeInsider.com. Boozer also won the CBS Sports Player […]
People used to say that recruiting is the lifeblood of college basketball. It’s not exactly true anymore, at least not in the same way it once was. It would probably be more accurate now to say that talent acquisition is a more precise term. However it happens, young players come into basketball every year, and […]
Justin Gainey was introduced as NC State’s new coach on Wednesday. In a bit of an unforced error, NC State A.D. Boo Corrigan apparently twice referred to his new coach as Jason Gainey. Not an auspicious start, but perhaps Gainey will perform better than Corrigan did. Here are some of Gainey’s comments from his introductory […]
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Cooper Flagg, along with his Duke roommate Kon Knueppel, is generally seen as the leading candidates for NBA Rookie of the Year. It’s been a tremendous year for both former Blue Devils. In this interview with Pat McAfee, Flagg discusses his rookie season to date. He touches on something that Kevin Garnett discovered in his […]
Although we haven’t done it in a while, back in the day, we used to do an annual April Fool’s Day Joke (we stopped doing them because SB Nation asked that April Fool’s Jokes be identified as such in the body of the story, which sort of takes the fun out of it). Since it’s […]
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It doesn’t quite register in North Carolina the way it does in Indiana, but high school basketball in the Hoosier state is more or less a religion. The rest of the world got a glimpse of it through the movie Hoosiers, the best basketball movie ever made and one of the best sports movies period, […]
With Duke’s loss to UConn in the Elite Eight, every team in the ACC is now in off-season mode, other than Boston College, which is waiting for Huskies assistant Luke Murray to move to Beantown, which he can’t do until UConn’s season ends. Over the last few years, we’ve argued that the issue with the […]
Starting close to home, it looks like NC State has opted to hire former Wolfpack point guard Justin Gainey. Gainey, 49, played for the Wolfpack from 1996-2000. He was an assistant at Elon, at App State under Jason Capel, at Arizona under Sean Miller, then at Marquette under Steve Wojciechowski, and most recently under Rick […]
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Back in 1989, Georgetown still carried the aura of Patrick Ewing. Ewing graduated in 1985, but he was so ferocious in his Hoya days that everyone just assumed that Alonzo Mourning could do the same things, and that in particular, he was as ferocious a defender as Ewing had been. It wasn’t a wild thought. […]
Duke fans are in pain. To be upset in the NCAA Tournament is always agonizing. An upset loss with the game seemingly in hand hurts all the more. But to be upset in a game that was in your control on a miraculous buzzer beater that required so many things to go wrong in succession—both […]
There’s not a whole lot to say about Sunday’s loss to UConn, but we did want to mention a few things. First, we feel terrible for Cayden Boozer. If you’ll remember back when Caleb Foster was hurt, Boozer really stepped up. And it’s more than that, because that guy made winning plays over and over. […]
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The season ended in the hardest of ways for Duke Sunday, with a bitter loss to UConn, but basketball always rolls on. We don’t know for sure who will be back next season in this new era. Some, like Cameron Boozer, will be in the NBA. Some may opt to transfer, and some will be […]
It wasn’t a great day for Duke Basketball, either on the men’s or women’s side, where Duke fell to UCLA, 70-58. Much like UConn, UCLA came back in the second half after a good first half by the Blue Devils. Duke shot just 23.3% in the second half, and it’s hard to win like that. […]
Pain. Duke’s season ends on a final second miracle 3 pointer to UConn, and unfortunately we have to talk about it. Jason and Donald gather to recap the game that ends the 2025-26 season on Episode 815. The Blue Devils had it all going in the first half. The second half saw them let a […]
Duke and UConn once again put on a game for the ages, with the Huskies coming back for a dramatic 73-72 win. People will compare it to Houston’s comeback last year, but it’s not quite the same thing: this time, Duke’s Caleb Foster and Pat Ngongba were playing with serious foot injuries, and Maliq Brown […]
Iowa’s remarkable postseason came to a close Saturday night at the hands of Illinois, but it wasn’t easy. Illinois pulled away relatively late. Iowa proved to be a very tough out, which is down to good coaching. Why? Because Iowa’s talent is nowhere near that of Illinois. Bennett Stirtz has emerged as an NBA prospect, […]
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The late Bill Walton occupies a unique place in basketball history. He ranks with the greatest centers – Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Hakeem Olajuwon, among others – but injuries greatly limited his career. But when he was healthy, he was indisputably great. Boston Celtics teammate Robert Parish was speaking to former Celtic […]