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Depth Charge: Jon Rothstein’s Take On Duke
Jon Rothstein has a video out that has a surprising suggestion: Duke’s second team could be ranked. It’s not as ludicrous as it sounds. Here’s who Rothstein expects will start: Caleb Foster, John Blackwell, Dame Sarr, Pat Ngongba, and either Cameron Williams or Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje. The second team therefore would be either Williams or […]
More Scandal For UNC Football?
After what happened in Chapel Hill between 2010 and 2017, with the disgraceful academic and athletic scandals that hit during those years, you’d think UNC would be absolutely vigilant about potential scandals. You would be wrong. Apparently. UNC is dealing with two potentially bad situations this week, and it’s just Tuesday. First, football GM Michael […]
YouTube Gold: Get Ready For Mach 7.6
Typically, when an extraordinarily tall player comes along, his main value is simply his height. Take Tacko Fall, for instance. When he was at UCF, Fall, at 7-6 and around 300 lbs, was a huge pain in the paint. Duke learned about this in the 2019 NCAA tournament, when Central Florida nearly knocked the Blue […]
Wendell Moore Update: Heading To Europe?
Former Blue Devil Wendell Moore has been in the NBA for four years now, and he hasn’t really established himself, and it looks like he’s going to go a different direction. Moore is reportedly talking to several European teams, including Partizan Belgrade and Hapoel Tel Aviv. However, he may be more interested in BC Roma […]
ACC Preview #8 – Pitt
#1 – UNC || #2 – NC State || #3 – Wake Forest || #4 – Virginia || #5 – Clemson||#6 – Miami || #7 – Louisville Jeff Capel is lucky to still be Pitt’s basketball coach. After a 13-20 season, he was clearly on the hot seat. He also had a new AD, Allen Greene, and typically, new ADs like to hire their […]
Former Blue Devils Harris, Schutt Getting Fresh Starts In The Midwest
One of the real downsides of the modern era of college basketball, at least for fans, is that players who might have stuck around for four years often leave after just one or two. That was the case with both Darren Harris and Jaden Schutt. Harris left after two years in Durham last spring and […]
Latest Duke Chronicle Profile: Taylor Sofilkanich
The latest Duke Chronicle profile is of freshman center Taylor Sofilkanich. Last year, we weren’t sure that Duke had enough size to compete. As it turned out, they did, but adding a 6-4 big can’t hurt. From the Chronicle: “Sofilkanich couples her size advantage with strong footwork under the basket, using pivots to create separation […]
YouTube Gold: Showtime In L.A.
During his playing days, Jerry West was devastated nearly every year when his Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Boston Celtics. He briefly coached, but given his high-strung nature, that really didn’t suit him in his post-player career. He worked as a scout until 1982, when he took over as GM. The Lakers had a […]
Duke Recruiting: Beckham Black Update – A Brotherhood Assist?
A lot of schools are after Beckham Black. Widely regarded as (at least) one of the top two point guards in the class of ‘27, Black is certainly considering schools like Texas, Arkansas, and Duke. His brother, Anthony, played for the Razorbacks, and is now with the Orlando Magic, where he is teammates with former […]
The Duke Chronicle Looks At Four New Talents For Women’s Basketball
The Duke Chronicle is cranking up its annual look at new talent for both the men’s and women’s basketball teams, and so far, they’ve done four on the women’s side. We’ve linked the stories below, but here are just a couple of quick points: Aaliyah Crump transfers in from Texas, where she started off well, […]
YouTube Gold: Grant Hill Elevates
Grant Hill had a brilliant four-year career at Duke, with more great plays than anyone could easily catalog. For us, there were three that stood out. #1: You won’t find it on YouTube, because it was a defensive play, but it was incredible: in his senior year, when UNC came to Cameron, Hill was back […]
Chris Carrawell On Building Teams In The Modern Game
When Jon Scheyer took over as Duke’s basketball coach, there were some immediate and obvious differences between him and predecessor Mike Krzyzewski. The immediate stylistic differences were that while Coach K recruited for versatility and athleticism, Scheyer puts more of a premium on size, while still prizing versatility. And he also puts more emphasis on […]
Are These The Top 99 NBA Shooters Of All Time?
This is interesting: Bleacher Report listed their Top 99 NBA shooters of all time, and of those, six are former Blue Devils, and here they are: It’s too early to list Kon Knueppel, but if this list had come out a few years later, he’d probably be on it, too. A list like this is […]
YouTube Gold: 1964 Game 7 Western Conference Finals
This is some pretty rare video from 1964, of a Game 7 between the (then) St. Louis Hawks and the (then) San Francisco Warriors. There are at least three Hall of Famers in this game: Wilt Chamberlain and Nate Thurmond for the Warriors, and Bob Pettit for the Hawks. San Francisco started both Chamberlain, who […]
DBR Podcast #836: Duke-Michigan axed, but Duke goes to new heights
We’re back with Episode 836 as some schedule news and team updates had us reacting on a Friday morning! Donald and Jason start off with the reports that the Duke-Michigan game has been canceled due to the dispute Fox and the Big Ten had with Amazon Prime broadcasting the game. Instead, Duke will reportedly face […]
The Duke-Michigan Game In Miami Is OFF
The Duke-Michigan, first scheduled for Madison Square Garden, and then for Miami, has been canceled. Apparently, things just got too complicated. You’ll recall that the Big Ten claimed it had the broadcast rights to a game that was going to be on Amazon Prime, and then after all of that, Dusty May bolted for the […]
Duke’s Official Roster Posted, With Some Surprises
As we’ve been starting our ACC basketball previews, we’ve looked periodically at GoDuke.com to see if they’ve posted the updated roster like most of the rest of the conference, and Thursday, they did. And there are some surprises. First, Dame Sarr has muscled up a bit, as advertised: he’s now listed at 6-8 and 200 […]
Flaggs Dominate Barstool Stiffs On Celebrity Family Feud
As it turned out, Dave Portnoy and his Barstool Bums shouldn’t have bothered going on Family Feud, because the Flagg family just obliterated them, winning 543-0. It got ugly fast, as the Barstool guys couldn’t get much right. They did win the battle of fake enthusiasm pretty convincingly, though. However, the Flaggs, including Cooper and […]
ACC Preview #7 – Louisville
#1 – UNC || #2 – NC State || #3 – Wake Forest || #4 – Virginia || #5 – Clemson ||#6 – Miami Remember when Chris Mack was forced out at Louisville, and Louisville fans began clamoring for the school to hire “one of their own?” That ended up being Kenny Payne, and Payne ended up being a total disaster. Full disclosure: […]
YouTube Gold: The First Great Big Man
Before Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Shaquille O’Neal, there was George Mikan. Mikan was not someone who was destined to be an athlete. He met DePaul coach Ray Meyer when he was in high school, and Meyer saw potential in the awkward 6-10 teenager. He had him do a […]
Could We Be Underestimating Duke’s Versatility?
For most college basketball programs, the summer is a fallow period devoid of news. That lends itself to speculation about the upcoming season, which for Duke fans has been ripe with possibilities. Fans are obsessing over how Jon Scheyer will fit a roster full of intriguing pieces together. How will he split backcourt minutes between […]
More Summer Video From Duke Basketball
Here’s some more video from summer ball. If you’re like us, what you’re going to do is to hit the space bar as often as you can to see deets, and we do see some. For one, it looks like the rumors about Dame Sarr’s physical transformation are true. He appears to be much stronger […]
Tragic News For The DBR Community
There are times in life when things that make absolutely no sense happen. Out of the blue, you get news about good people who have suffered some thunderbolt from out of the blue that utterly changes their life forever. So it is now for Friend of DBR, Michael Corey. A 2005 Duke grad, Mike went […]
YouTube Gold: Kareem’s Choice For GOAT May Surprise You
Generally speaking, most people consider either Michael Jordan or LeBron James to be the GOAT of professional basketball. Jordan was an incredible presence from 1984 to 2003, minus his first two retirements. As for James, he started playing in the NBA in 2003 and, for better or worse, is still playing (he is not the […]
No, Jay Bilas Was Not Laid Off By ESPN
Like us, you may have been shocked by posts online suggesting that, as it cuts costs and lays off employees, ESPN laid off former Blue Devil Jay Bilas. Well, relax: it’s not true. Apparently, this rumor went viral because of a post by @NotJ0NRoth, a parody of CBS reporter Jon Rothstein (he fooled us once, […]
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