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No great surprise here, but in their respective openers, Florida State and Stanford both won. It’s no great surprise because FSU played Alcorn State and Stanford played Portland State and neither is a big challenge. And given the big turnover most teams have these days, it’s not like we know much about either team and […]
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Larry Bird had many incredible moments during his legendary Boston Celtics career, but most of them came on offense. Bird was not only wildly gifted offensively, but he was arrogant in the best way. He would regularly tell people what he was going to do and then did it. He got bored one night and […]
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Note – under the old publishing system, if you had two versions of a story open, they synced. Turns out that’s not the case under the new system and we saved the wrong version last night. Lesson learned.Here’s our (new) Duke-Texas story. After two superb exhibition performances, Cameron Boozer started slow in the first half […]
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Fifteen ACC teams were in action on the first night of the 2025-26 college basketball season and things got interesting, particularly in the Triangle with new-look teams in Raleigh and Chapel Hill. First though, the scores: Every ACC team won except for BC. We can’t look at all the games but let’s focus on stuff […]
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Maxine Raynaud came close. The 7-1 center from Paris led Stanford in scoring and rebounding for the past two seasons, finishing 2025 as the ACC leader in rebounds (10.6) and as its second-best scorer (20.2) behind Notre Dame guard Markus Burton. A picture of versatility, Raynaud completed 67 threes, tied for 11th-best in the league. […]
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Nate “Tiny” Archibald is somewhat overshadowed today but he was legitimately one of the greatest point guards in NBA history. After a rocky time in high school in Brooklyn, Archibald started college ball atArizona Western, a JUCO in Yuma, then transferred to UTEP the year after Texas Western won the 1966 NCAA championship. If that’s […]
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The #7 ranked Duke women started the basketball season in the City of Lights but Baylor’s Taliah Scott racked up 24 to lead the #16 Bears to the 58-52 upset in Paris. Half of Scott’s points came in the 4th quarter as Baylor simply outplayed the Blue Devils down the stretch. Toby Fournier was the […]
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Typically, we add links to stories as they become available and with Texas being the first game of the season, we’ve been adding links for a few days now. Some are better than others, obviously, but we’d like to commend one in particular. The Duke Chronicle tends to be a bit hit or miss with […]
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The college basketball season opens on Monday night and most of the ACC is in action – but for the most part, it’s the lame openers everyone schedules. Let’s look. UNC hosts Central Arkansas, Charleston Southern is at Virginia Tech, Binghamton is in the Dome at Syracuse, Pitt welcomes the Penguins of Youngstown State, NC […]
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Duke product Kon Knueppel continues to be hugely impressive in his rookie season in the NBA. On Sunday, he helped his Charlotte Hornets to a 126-103 win over the Utah Jazz. Knueppel played a team-high 35 minutes, scoring 24 points on 9-17/4-9. He also had six rebounds and five assists with no turnovers. His former […]
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It’s hard to understate just how traumatic the 1972 loss to the USSR was for the US. Basketball was a game that the Americans had dominated in the Olympics since the first time it was part of the games in 1936. In fact, the US had never lost a single game prior to the loss […]
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The Duke Basketball Roundup dives into one of the most thrilling college football games of the year as Duke took down Clemson 46-45. Manny Diaz needs to be nicknamed “stones” for the gutsy calls he made on 4th down and in going for 2 to win the game. Jason and Donald loved it and, because […]
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Duke won at Clemson Saturday afternoon, 46-45 in an ACC thriller. Clemson from top to bottom wasn‘t happy with the loss and it’s understandable, but they are mostly focused on a questionable call late in the 4th. That’s not their biggest problem from this game though. Duke was driving and with :49 on the clock, […]
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Charlotte Hornet GM Jeff Peterson was hired in March, 2024 as the executive vice president of basketball operations, he was just 35. Just under eight months later, it looks like a brilliant hire. Charlotte is currently just 2-4, but what’s intriguing is how well Charlotte’s rookies are doing. The Hornets picked up Duke’s Kon Knueppel […]
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One of the greatest things in sports is when a team clinches a championship. It’s amazing in every team sport because you see the exhilaration and the tension dissolve into joy. It’s great in football and better in basketball when you see the teams rush on the field or court and just fall into a […]
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Duke traveled to Death Valley and beat Clemson 46-45 in a thrilling game. This was the first Duke victory in Death Valley in 45 years since a Ben Bennett quarterbacked squad won 34-17 on 10/18/1980. Nate Sheppard ran for a 3-yards touchdown with 40 seconds remaining to go in the game to pull Duke within […]
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Duke and Texas open the season on Tuesday, meeting in Charlotte. As noted in our preview, the Longhorns are dealing with some injuries: big men Lassina Traore and Matas Vokietaitis both have foot injuries. For Vokietaitis, it’s an ankle sprain and for Traore, it’s a mid-foot sprain. Texas has to be particularly careful with Traore […]
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The Duke Chronicle has two interesting articles up now, with one looking at where Duke recruits have come from in recent years and the other about Darren Harris, his connection to Duke and his transformation from last season. The recruiting article is called Mapping The Brotherhood: The geographies of Duke’s freshman classes and it’s more […]
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To an extent, baseball has lost some luster over the last few decades. Football blew by it in the 1970’s and while baseball is still called the national past time, it’s not what it once was. Kids used to want to be Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle. Now, they want to be Ja […]
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With the pre-season games done and the first match that counts just a few days away, it is time for the Duke Basketball Roundup’s annual season preview via the Stats Game. As we do every year, we bring back former co-host Sam Klein to steer us through this discussion of how various players will do […]
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Date 11/3 || Time 8:45 || Venue Spectrum Center || Video ESPN Duke opens the season on Tuesday with Texas in Charlotte and that’s an interesting way to get things started. Texas has been on a bit of a walkabout lately. They fired Rodney Terry after last season and he wasn’t an awful coach. He […]
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The Duke Chronicle has a couple of columns up worth your time. The first is about the gauntlet of a schedule that Jon Scheyer has set up. Duke plays Texas (neutral), Kansas, (neutral), Arkansas (neutral), Florida in Cameron, Michigan State in East Lansing, Texas Tech (neutral) and Michigan (neutral). The Devils will also visit Army, […]
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Duke has been a powerful program for so long that many people either don’t know or can’t believe that it wasn’t always like that for the Blue Devils. The Vic Bubas era was glamorous but relatively brief and the early ‘70’s were a disaster. Bill Foster brought some hope back and got Duke to the […]
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We’re back with DBR Bites 119 to discuss Jon Scheyer landing his second recruit of the Class of 2026! Maxime Meyer made a surprise announcement this afternoon that he was committing to the Blue Devils, and Donald and Jason quickly discuss the addition of Meyer to next year’s roster. The 7’1” Canadian center has been […]
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Duke got a commitment Thursday from 7-1 Canadian Maxime Meyer. The 7-1 Meyer is currently playing for IMG Academy and is generally seen as a four-star prospect. He fits with Scheyer’s preference for taller players. Like a lot of young seven footers (he’s still 17), he’s growing into his body, but he sounds quite promising. […]
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