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In Saturday’s ACC Action, Boston College visits Louisville, Georgia Tech jets down to Miami, NC State and Florida State tangle in Tallahassee, Syracuse is at Pitt, Stanford checks in at Virginia, Cal is at Virginia Tech, Wake Forest buses down to UNC and Clemson visits Notre Dame. We don’t expect BC will have much of […]
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You know that tag line the Situational Ethics Conference likes to use – It Just Means More? Well, maybe…maybe not. According to Outkick.com, “The bowl season, including the College Football Playoff, has been a complete disaster, from start to finish. With the Ole Miss loss to Miami on Thursday night, the conference fell to 1-8 against non-SEC Power […]
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In our opinion, Duke has had four points guards who stand above the rest: Tommy Amaker, Bobby Hurley, Jon Scheyer and Tyus Jones. The first three were at Duke for four years, but Jones of course was only here for one year, which resulted in the 2015 national championship. At Duke, he quickly established himself […]
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Date 1/10|| Time 2:00 || Venue Cameron Indoor Stadium || Video ESPN Now in its second season as a member of the All-Coast ACC, SMU is getting around to some of the more challenging environments it didn’t see last season. On Wednesday, the Mustangs were introduced to the dubious pleasures of Clemson’s Littlejohn Coliseum, where […]
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Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel continue to have tremendous rookie seasons in the NBA. In Flagg’s latest game against Utah, Dallas’s rookie prize just missed his first triple double, with 26 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists. He’s also apparently considering entering the NBA Dunk Contest, which would be fun to watch (fellow Maverick and […]
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Duke has had some beautiful basketball teams over the years, but nothing really tops the 1991-92 group. With a core of Bobby Hurley, Christian Laettner, Grant Hill, Thomas Hill and Brian Davis, that team was the first to get back-to-back national championships since the Bill Walton era at UCLA. In this video, you get some […]
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Going into the fourth quarter, it didn’t seem likely that Duke’s six-game win streak would continue, but the Blue Devils that came back from 10 down to pick up its 7th straight win, 78-74 on the road at Cal. Ariana Robinson had a monster first half for Duke with 20 points, helping the Blue Devils […]
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Duke is back in the friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday to face the SMU Mustangs in ACC play. Donald and Scott help preview the game on DBR Bites #132! SMU is a solid team even as they enter Cameron fresh off a loss at Littlejohn Coliseum to Clemson. They’re led by Boopie […]
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Don’t get used to it. Or, to put it in more positive terms, enjoy it while you can. The statistical dimensions of what Cameron Boozer has achieved so far this season are seldom matched, certainly not on any squad with a variety of talented players. Even if it did happen with a Duke squad that […]
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In Wednesday’s ACC Action, Virginia canned Cal 84-60, Clemson held on against SMU 74-70, Miami survived Wake Forest 81-77 and Stanford just nipped Virginia Tech 69-68. The Hokies set limiting turnovers as a goal and they accomplished that. Too bad they couldn’t limit Stanford’s freshman star Ebuka Okorie (that just auto-corrected to Ebuka Okra), who […]
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So someone made a request on X to post Duke highlights of Nolan Smith and that wish was granted. When he was at Duke, Smith improved dramatically. Along with Jon Scheyer, he formed one of Duke’s more underrated backcourts. We still talk about the Johnny Dawkins/Tommy Amaker backcourt, the Bobby Hurley/Thomas Hill backcourt and the […]
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In the second half of Duke’s win over Louisville, the Blue Devils really cranked up the defense. Duke just turned off all the options against Pat Kelsey’s three point-centric machine like a boa constrictor slowly choking out a Cardinal. At a certain point, Louisville was still there, but functionally hopeless. A lot of it had […]
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What is with Duke and comebacks in the Yum! Center? Duke’s comeback at Louisville in 2019 was shocking because it happened really fast. Duke was down 23 with 9:58 to play. That comeback was basically basketball blitzkrieg. It wasn’t quite that extreme here. Duke was down 47-38 at the half and finally tied the game […]
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In Tuesday’s ACC Action, Syracuse took care of Georgia Tech 82-72 and NC State survived Boston College, 79-71. We were curious about how Cuse’s Naithan George would perform going up against his old team. Well he did just fine with 17 points and 5 assists. On the downside, he had just 2 rebounds and 6 […]
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The win was so stunning, we needed to collect our breath! After the vibes check episode, Donald and Scott Rich return to give a full recap of the Louisville game on Episode 785, with discussion on each of the halves and what made them what they were. The second half was the good, featuring the […]
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It’s really kind of amazing just how much Duke Basketball is now part of the overall sphere of basketball, if you’ll forgive the pun. In college, you see a number of coaches – Jeff Capel, Johnny Dawkins, Bobby Hurley, Greg Paulus and Nolan Smith come to mind. The NBA has executives like Elton Brand, Trajan […]
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A few years ago, we saw a post saying that only (maybe) four players had ever blocked Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Sky Hook, but we keep finding other guys who did it. As far as we can remember, Bill Willoughby did it, though it was called goal tending, Bill Walton got one from behind and Wilt Chamberlain […]
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What a game! Duke overcomes a terrible first half and comes back to win it in the second as they defeat Louisville on the road 84-73. With Donald and Scott Rich on hand and Jason recording from a lavatory 35,000 feet above the Atlantic, we just give out the vibes on Episode 784! Caleb Foster […]
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Louisville won the first half but Duke won the second and with that, the game, winning 84-73. The first half against Louisville really didn’t start very well for Duke as Ryan Conwell hit his first three three point attempts and finished the half with four. Louisville was ridiculous from behind the line. Backup big man […]
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Date 1/6 || Time 7:00 || Venue KFC Yum! Center || Video ESPN Next up for Duke is a date with Louisville in the Yum! Center, and that’s not as easy as it used to be. After Rick Pitino was forced out in 2017 following one too many scandals, David Padgett had a year as […]
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The ACC Network was occupied, its scheduled showing of the ACC opener between Duke and Georgia Tech delayed by a rivalry game within the state of Virginia. UVa, ranked #21 in the nation at the time, traveled to Virginia Tech to engage in the 162nd meeting between the public universities dating to 1915. By the […]
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No one playing on Tuesday (other than the highlight game of Duke-Louisville) has less than five losses, but both games have compelling storylines. In the 7:00 game between Syracuse and Georgia Tech, Naithan George returns to Atlanta, which should be interesting. Syracuse hasn’t played a true road game yet, believe it or not and Georgia […]
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The NBA started in the late 1940’s, so if you take the league’s official starting point as 1946, with the BAA which merged with the NBL to make the NBA, it is 79 now and will hit 80 later in the year, presumably at the start of next season. That’s a long time and incorporates […]
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After a pair of wins against the bottom tier of the ACC Duke faces a much different conference rival on Tuesday. The Blue Devils will face the team everyone says is the second best in the league, the Louisville Cardinals. One key question for this game is the health of superstar freshman PG Mikel Brown, […]
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For 10 games, Duke looked the part of a top-tier National Championship contender. Over the last four games, the Blue Devils have looked more like a team whose flaws might keep them from such lofty expectations. Who is Duke really? The Blue Devils’ next big test—at Louisville Tuesday night—will go a long way towards establishing […]
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