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At some point, you’d think people who make a living in basketball would figure this out: intelligence can compensate for athleticism. The classic examples are Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, but there are others: Steve Kerr, Don Nelson, Draymond Green, Charles Oakley, Stephen Curry and, most recently, Kon Knueppel. Knueppel is particularly relevant here because […]
In Tuesday’s ACC Action, Louisville fell at Tennessee 82-63, UNC dismissed East Tennessee State 77-58, Dayton beat Florida State 97-69, Clemson got by South Carolina 68-61, Miami stung FIU 98-81 and Georgia Tech slipped by Marist, 87-76. Louisville had to go without star freshman Mikel Brown, who was out with a back issue. However, the […]
For most of the junior league’s life span, the NBA and ABA had a testy relationship. The ABA did a lot of things the NBA did not like at all, like introducing the three point shot and having a flashier, fun focused game compared to the NBA’s stodgier, walk-it-up style. Plus the ABA really irritated […]
It was a tale of two halves. Well, more specifically, Jon Scheyer’s 100th win as Duke’s head coach was a tale of turnovers in two halves. In the first half against Lipscomb, Duke seemed totally disjointed and tossed the ball away constantly, racking up 16 before the break, which was somewhat shocking for a team […]
We’ve only heard excerpts so far, but this is a fun episode of the Brotherhood Podcast. A couple of high points: Caleb Foster and Isaiah Evans laugh about Michigan State taunting Cameron Boozer with the weak “Eff Cam Boozer,” saying they knew it was going to get him going – and it did. Then there’s […]
In Tuesday’s ACC Action, Louisville goes to Tennessee, Florida State visits Dayton, Clemson welcomes the hated Gamecocks, FIU buses over to Miami, Marist jets down to Georgia Tech and East Tennessee drops in on the Heels. The highlight here is obviously #11 Louisville visiting the #20 Vols. Tennessee hasn’t been great so far, but it’s […]
Cooper Flagg, as most Duke fans probably know, got off to a bit of a slow start as an NBA rookie. The Mavericks started him off at point guard and while he did okay there, it was asking a lot of an 18-year-0ld rookie and people started to say he was overrated. They’re not saying […]
Date 12/16 || Time 6:00 || Venue Cameron Indoor Stadium || Video ACC Network We’ll be the first to admit we don’t now much about Lipscomb. The Bisons play in the ASUN and they’re only about two miles down the road from Belmont, which means they’re probably the closest rivals in the nation. Lipscomb is […]
Right now, as members of the 2025-26 Duke men’s squad pause to take finals and catch their collective breath, it’s worth taking a look at what they’ve accomplished in their first 10 games of the season. Much is rightly made of Duke’s double-figure wins, a start matched among few other D-1 programs. Much is also […]
In Sunday’s ACC Action, Virginia Tech hammered Maryland Eastern Shore 82-53 and Wake Forest smoked Queens 111-73. Neither was a surprise, obviously. Neoklis Avdalas, who played hurt for a while, seems to be better now. He scored 16 here and has 46 in his last two games. Amani Hansberry seems to be settling in nicely […]
By 1972, the NBA, officially founded in 1949, had matured. In 1972, the 22nd All-Star game took place and while it was still very old-school, you could see things starting to change. Dave Cowens and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were playing. The Boston Celtics had become John Havlicek’s team; he was here too. Connie Hawkins, who had […]
With the exam break wrapping up, Duke hoops turns its attention to the Lipscomb Bisons out of the Atlantic Sun Conference. Lipscomb is probably the best non-power conference team Duke will face this season and is coming off a year in which they won their league and made the NCAA tourney as a #14 seed. […]
We haven’t heard as much about Duke rookie Khaman Maluach as we have about Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel or even second-round picks Tyrese Proctor and Sion James. It’s not surprising: everyone understood that Maluach is still raw. So it’s also not surprising that, like a lot of rookies, he’s spending some time in the G-League. […]
In Saturday’s ACC Action, Louisville hammered Memphis 99-73, UNC beat South Carolina Upstate 80-62, UMass thrashed Florida State 103-95, Miami took care of UL Monroe 104-79, Notre Dame aced the Evansville test 82-58, Clemson got by Mercer 70-63, Hofstra punked Syracuse 70-69, Villanova dismissed Pitt 79-61, Cal took out Northwestern State 79-70, Stanford slipped by […]
Before injuries devastated his career and Grant Hill earned respect for working through things that would have forced most normal people to give up, he was one of the greatest talents the game has ever seen. When he was still with the Detroit Pistons, Hill was widely seen as the eventual successor to Michael Jordan’s […]
As winter arrives, children across the world race to fit in enough good deeds to get on Santa’s nice list—at least, that’s what the yearly inundation of holiday movies tells us. It seems, though, that too many college coaches have missed those reruns this year. High level college coaches are not known for their scruples […]
It’s a busy Saturday around the conference so let’s see who’s playing who: Florida State plays UMass in the AutoNation Orange Bowl Classic, UL Monroe visits Miami, mighty SC Upstate visits UNC, Evansville checks in at Notre Dame, Mercer stops by Littlejohn, Hofstra hazards a trip north to Syracuse, Memphis revives an old rivalry with […]
When we read through this article about Danny Hurley’s UConn program, it took a minute to realize what seemed off. Can you spot it? Go ahead and look. We’ll be here when you’re done. Okay, you saw it too, right? This line? “For us, the Texas game is a huge game. That game on Friday […]
As the 2025-26 NBA season unfolds, one thing is clear: Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel are providing the most entertaining and unique Rookie of the Year race in memory. Former roommates and teammates at Duke, both Flagg and Knueppel are redefining their respective teams. For Dallas, Flagg is providing a new vision of what is […]
This year’s Rookie of the Year race, so far anyway, has been quite unusual since the two leading candidates were teammates last year: former Blue Devils Kon Knueppel and Cooper Flagg. For most of the season, Knueppel’s strikingly mature game has had him out front of Flagg as the Charlotte Hornets began to plan around […]
In Thursday’s games, no surprises: Virginia Tech was never really threatened by Western Carolina, winning 96-74 and Syracuse won a more competitive game against Saint Joseph’s, 71-63. We understand that freshman Neoklis Avdalas, who dazzled people with a brilliant outing against Providence in just his second game, has been playing hurt. Well, he must be […]
Before we go any further, please understand that this video is a very rare exception to our general policy of not linking to NSFW stuff. So if you are at work or have small children about, consider yourself warned. That said, Duke fans: you’re going to love this. It’s a rant by a Michigan State […]
It’s really a bit too soon to talk about hot seats and coaching carousel stuff, but we’re up to the task. And there are definitely some coaches around the ACC and country who have warm behinds. So let’s take a look, ACC first, and who might be good replacements. Go to the DBR Boards to […]
There are definite signs of growth in an ACC basketball garden fertilized by last season’s embarrassment. Notably, this year ACC men’s teams almost broke even against the SEC in the leagues’ Challenge series, posting a respectable 7-9 mark after a 2-14 wipeout in 2024-25. Overall, after 63 nonconference games through Dec. 9 against top-flight opposition, […]
In Wednesday’s ACC Action, Notre Dame beat Iowa 80-65, NC State throttled Liberty 85-45 and Boston College fell to UMass, 76-74. This was the first game Notre Dame played without star guard Markus Burton, who was injured against TCU last time out, and who now faces ankle surgery and, possibly, a redshirt season. The Irish […]