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Ideally, any basketball coach would like to have at least one quality big man, some long defenders, some guys who can shoot and someone to run the team – a coach on the floor as people like to call it. Those are ideals but just as in life, basketball rosters are rarely ideal and one […]
If people had questions about the ACC being back, Saturday should have sorted that out. Aside from the close Duke-Florida State game, Virginia clubbed NC State, 76-61, Wake first slipped by Virginia Tech 81-78, Clemson escaped Pitt 73-68, Georgia Tech got by BC 65-53 and SMU upset UNC 97-83. It’s hard to understand what happened […]
When Leon Redbone showed up on the music scene in the early 1970’s, no one knew quite what to make of him. Bob Dylan said he could be anywhere from 25-70 and that if he started a label he would certainly sign him. Redbone, who was born in Cyprus before ultimately moving to Canada with […]
Welcome back, ACC. We missed you. Sort of. Over the last few years and especially last year, the conference has been pretty weak but in Duke’s first two games, first against Georgia Tech and then Saturday against Florida State, two of the weaker teams in recent years played very, very well, with both giving the […]
Sometimes being wrong isn’t the worst thing in the world. Take Louisville at Stanford. While we have a healthy respect for Kyle Smith though. He’s clearly a very sharp guy and he’s likely to get as much as possible out of his analytics approach. Still, we didn’t think Stanford had much of a chance here. […]
The coolest thing anyone on Duke’s team last year said was when someone asked Cooper Flagg what he would take to a desert island. He said “some food, a gun…Kon Knueppel.” They are very good friends and were roommates at Duke. Now, they’re the two primary candidates for NBA Rookie of the Year and now, […]
We talk about this on ACC Roundup today but it’s such a striking, strange if not shocking end to that game that it deserves more attention. The Irish were up 71-68 with 9.9 to play. Cal brought the ball in and Dai Dai Ames took it up court. Logan Imes was pressuring him but appeared […]
Duke hosted Boston College on Thursday and it was a blowout, with Duke winning 100-49. After a tough start to the season, the Blue Devils have now won five straight, none of them at all close. Duke forced 20 turnovers and Boston College hit just 4-21 of their three point attempts (19%) and 21-59 overall […]
Time to hit the road. Duke travels to Tally this weekend to take on the Florida St. Seminoles, hoping to get back to being the team they were just a few weeks ago. Duke has had some trouble with Florida State in the past so the Duke Basketball Roundup is here with all the details […]
Date 1/3 || Time 3:45 || Venue Donald L. Tucker Civic Center || Video CBS Duke travels to Tallahassee Saturday to take on the new-look Florida State Seminoles. Long-time coach Leonard Hamilton retired after last season and former ‘Nole Luke Loucks was hired to rebuild the program. Hamilton had a solid run at FSU, particularly […]
Two games on tap Friday as Louisville and Notre Dame change West Coast dance partners after both won on Tuesday with Louisville hammering Cal and the Irish winning a Tony Bennett special against Stanford, 47-40. It’s interesting that there is a three-day break between games, but it is still between semesters. We don’t imagine that […]
In this clip from Iman Shumpert’s show, Baron Davis and Iman Shumpert discuss whether or not Larry Bird could play in today’s game Davis is emphatic in his belief that Bird would be dominant in today’s game while Shumpert asks if Bird could guard Kevin Durant. It’s always an interesting question but as we’ve mentioned […]
Happy New Year! Duke Men’s Basketball closed out 2025 with a win over Georgia Tech to open up ACC play. We recap the victory on Episode 782. The Blue Devils had to tough it out against a Georgia Tech team that was hitting a ton of shots. But we get into the good, which included […]
Duke adherents and at-large observers are starting to look askance at a singular strength of this year’s squad. The problem, as they see it, is that the Blue Devils rely heavily on the impressive scoring of one player, Cameron Boozer. Too heavily, by some estimations, although opposing defenses seem largely unable to exploit that lopsided […]
Back in Shane Battier’s day, Duke briefly fell out of first place in the ACC and a reporter asked him how it felt to get it back. Battier said: “normal.” That’s kind of how it feels as Duke moves back to #1 in the high school recruiting race with the commitment of Deron Rippey Tuesday […]
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Date 12/31 || Time 4:00 || Venue Basketball Paradise || Video ACCN Duke gets back to business on New Year’s Eve after being upset by Texas Tech in New York as Georgia Tech comes to Cameron. Georgia Tech is 9-4 and has been somewhat erratic. Their losses have been to Georgia, then Depaul, Drake and […]
They migrate annually now from east to west, about half of the members going one year, the others the next in a pilgrimage of murky purpose beyond the obvious goals of winning games and making money. That Bay Area programs are part of the ever more absurdly-named Atlantic Coast Conference, an east coast fixture for […]
On Tuesday, ACC play starts in earnest with Florida State at UNC, Pitt at Miami, Louisville at Cal and Notre Dame at Stanford. Obviously there’s no way that Florida State should compete with UNC. FSU is in a serious rebuild while UNC has put together a pretty solid roster, not least of all up front […]
The first NCAA tournament started in 1939 and was second banana to the NIT, which started the year before in New York City. One team, Bradley, turned down the NCAA for the NIT, something that would soon become unimaginable (the NIT retained some prestige well into the 1970’s, but NCAA expansion eventually drained off the […]
Duke Basketball is back after an 11-day layoff, and they get back to business on New Year’s Eve against Georgia Tech. We preview the first ACC contest of the 2025-26 season on DBR Bites 128. Georgia Tech has struggled this season despite its 9-4 record, and they haven’t had a win against a good team […]
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There are so many high points in Duke Basketball history that it’s hard to remember everything and easy to forget stuff. Duke hung a banner in Cameron to commemorate Mike Krzyzewski’s 1,000th win, but do you remember when that happened? Who the opponent was? Where that game was? See what we mean? Assuming you don’t […]
After a dreadful five-game stretch that saw Duke go 1-4 and fall to 3-6, the Blue Devils have now won four straight and Sunday’s win over Syracuse put them back over .500. And like the last three wins, this one was solid too with Duke prevailing 71-51, and on the road too. Duke struggled a […]
Coming off the Christmas Break there is plenty for the Duke Basketball Roundup to discuss. First up on their plate is a preview of the Sun Bowl against Arizona State. Listen in to find out which Blue Devils and which Sun Devils will be actually suit up and play in the bowl game. After the […]