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NC State and Texas put on a highly entertaining game Tuesday before the Longhorns prevailed, 68-66. This came after Kenny Blakeney’s Howard nipped UMBC, 86-83. As noted previously, both Wolfpack coach Will Wade and Texas coach Sean Miller have expressed bewilderment at their teams and the inability to get everyone on the same page and […]
If you haven’t seen it, Carlos Boozer made an appearance on the Dan Patrick Show, and most of it, understandably, was about his sons, Cameron and Cayden, who are having terrific freshman seasons for Duke. He talked about several things, like staying out of their recruitment and “retiring” when he knew he wouldn’t be able […]
On the eve of the start of the NCAA Tournament for Duke comes big news… Evan Bradds, one of the brilliant assistant coaches on Scheyer’s squad, will be the next head coach at Belmont, one of the better mid-major programs in the country. Bradds was a star player at Belmont and the allure of heading […]
We didn’t see this coming, but it makes perfect sense: Duke assistant Evan Bradds is going to be the next coach at his alma mater, Belmont. Bradd is sort of a born lifer. The grandson of Ohio State great Gary Bradds, the younger Bradds attended Belmont,where he really excelled. After graduation, he worked for the […]
The Duke Basketball Roundup again welcomes underdog expert Jordan Brenner to the pod... and there has never been a better time to chat with him as we are on the verge of the NCAA Tournament. For 20 years. Jordan has been one of the definitive experts on picking upsets and bracket busters. Find out why he loves […]
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Date 3/19 || Time 2:50 || Venue Bon Secours Wellness Arena || Video CBS Update – Patrick Ngongba has not been ruled out for Thursday, but is “highly unlikely” to play Duke opens up NCAA tournament play on Thursday with the Siena Saints. As you probably know by now, former Syracuse star Gerry McNamara is […]
Kenny Blakeney graduated from Duke in 1995 and went into coaching. He was an assistant at James Madison, LaSalle, Delaware, Seton Hall, Delaware, Marshall, and then at Harvard for former Duke teammate Tommy Amaker. And then he got out and worked for Under Armour from 2011-2019. Blakeney worked a summer camp, if we remember correctly, […]
The First Four starts tonight, and this affects the ACC because NC State and SMU are both in Dayton. State plays tonight, and SMU on Wednesday. The Pack plays in the late game tonight (9:30), after Kenny Blakeney’s Howard takes on UMBC in the early game. We’ll take Howard there. Both State and Texas have […]
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Now that the field has been selected, we’re all starting to get some sense of the lay of the land. Here’s what we’ve learned so far. Houston may have gotten a major break. The #2 seed in the South, if they advance, they’ll be playing…in the Toyota Center. That’s in Houston. Specifically, it’s five miles […]
In some respects what they achieved was unique to the times and circumstances, yet in an essential sense entirely the same. And, in any sense, historic in a manner that cannot be minimized. Only Everett Case, whose uptempo NC State teams did more than any others to immediately establish the ACC as a basketball conference […]
Here’s the latest on Pat Ngongba, as Coach Jon Scheyer says he’s making progress. He talks about how analytics sees Ngongba, and what he has meant to Duke’s defense, especially inside. And he also says things are “very positive,” but he doesn’t want to risk a setback. It’s hard to know without more information, but […]
The NCAA Tournament begins for Duke on Thursday, and their First Round opponent is the Siena Saints. We preview the 1 vs. 16 matchup on DBR Bites #152. Siena is coached by Syracuse legend Gerry McNamara, and they got to the Dance by winning the MAAC Tournament. We look at who they’ve played and how […]
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As you probably saw Sunday, the NCAA brackets were announced, and the general reaction was that Duke got screwed and also that Duke got the toughest bracket, and it’s not fair. To which we say: meh. Look, we get the argument that the #1 seed is supposed to have earned the easiest bracket, and in […]
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Kara Lawson’s Duke team learned its NCAA destiny on Sunday, and the Blue Devils will be the #3 seed in the Sacramento 1 Regional. Duke will start off at home in Cameron against #14 seed Charleston. Also in Duke’s regional: #1 UCLA, #2 LSU, and #6 Baylor. Duke, of course, lost to all three early […]
We were sad when TJ Power chose to leave Duke. We thought, with a little time and some more muscle, he could turn into a heck of a player. It didn’t happen for him at Virginia, where Tony Bennett recruited him, only to retire just before the season started last fall. Now a junior at […]
It has only been less than 24 hours since Duke won the ACC title over Virginia but there is little time to look back as the most important games now lie before us. The Duke Basketball Roundup crew is already deep into their analysis of the brackets, especially Duke’s East region, which looks absolutely loaded. […]
We’ll do a more comprehensive look later, but here are some initial thoughts about the NCAA tournament field. First, both NC State and SMU are in the First Four. Better in than out, but it’s also sort of damning with faint praise. Both teams need to get out there to be taken seriously. Both are […]
The NCAA tournament brackets were revealed Sunday evening, and after both Florida and Michigan lost in their respective conference tournaments, the choice for the #1 seed came down to Duke and Arizona. And since Duke had it coming in to the weekend, and won the ACC Tournament without two of its normal starters, guess what: […]
Bracketology season is nearly at an end, with the official bracket reveal coming at 6 p.m. eastern this afternoon. While most of the national conversation now centers around the bubble teams, the most relevant questions for Duke fans are what teams will be the Blue Devils’ biggest competition in their bracket. With that in mind, […]
Duke has done it! The Blue Devils held off the Virginia Cavaliers to win their second straight ACC Tournament title and Jon Scheyer’s 3rd in 4 seasons. We salute the champions on Episode 808! We discuss some of the great headlines we received and sit back and marvel at how this team overcame the injuries […]
If you look back at the final seconds of Duke’s win over Virginia, it’s pretty interesting. When Isaiah Evans gets the ball in to Cameron Boozer with 27.4 seconds on the clock, Boozer does what he usually does in that sort of situation: he heads to the basket like a train highballing downhill. He fakes […]