From the monthly archives:
OKLAHOMA CITY — The third-seeded Blue Devils’ defense was dominant at times in the first half, but the No. 2 Aggies forged a lead in the period’s last five minutes and leads at half 29-25.
Chante Black and Abby Waner have five rebounds each, as Duke is dominating the glass, 23-15. When Duke doesn’t rebound, [...]
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Here are some initial thoughts from press row as Duke’s 7 p.m. Sweet 16 tip against Texas A&M approaches:
Duke is wearing its black jerseys for the third time this year. The other occasions? Losses to North Carolina in Chapel Hill and in the ACC Tournament.
The Aggies’ band and D.U.M.B. are going back [...]
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Earlier in the week, columnists Andrew Yaffe and Matthew Iles alluded to their new favorite team, Davidson. Thanks mostly to sophomore stud Stephen Curry’s 70 combined points, the 10th-seeded Wildcats knocked off Gonzaga and Georgetown to advance to the Sweet 16 and add even more fans to their bandwagon. Duke beat Davidson in Charlotte in [...]
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On the same day that Harris Interactive released a poll decreeing Duke the most popular team in the country, The Washington Post’s Dan Steinberg finished his two-part series on why Duke is hated. Of course, the Blue Devils are relevant in Steinberg’s D.C. Sports blog because the men’s basketball team lost in Washington D.C. over [...]
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It seems that recently, whenever Duke travels to road games even at neutral venues, the crowd has two favorite teams: the local team, or whoever is playing Duke. Washington D.C. fans rallied behind West Virginia as the Mountaineers upset the Duke men in the NCAA Tournament’s second round, and the crowd at Maryland was decidedly [...]
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Duke advanced to the Sweet 16 for the 11th straight year Tuesday night with a 67-59 win over Arizona State at the Comcast Center in College Park, Md. Chante Black was marvelous in the win, scoring a career-high 26 points and grabbing 13 rebounds, part of duke’s 42-31 edge on the glass. When the Blue [...]
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We’ve been reading The Washington Post’s Dan Steinberg’s insightful blog the last few days as he’s covered the NCAA Tournament, both men’s and women’s. He’s currently in College Park, Md., the site of Duke’s opening-round games. He had an interesting post yesterday about the Maryland fans supporting Murray State in Duke’s first-round win Sunday night, [...]
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Highly-prized Greg Echenique, a 6-foot-9 center from Danny Hurley’s St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, N.J., spurned Duke and other traditional powerhouses for in-state Rutgers. He announced his decision to verbally commit to Fred Hill’s program Monday after visiting Rutgers’ campus Thursday. Echenique was in Cameron Indoor Stadium for Duke’s March 8 loss to North Carolina.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — From the surface, the dichotomies between the programs of Mike Krzyzewski and Bob Huggins couldn’t be sharper. Coach K’s Duke programs have been consistently cited as the paragon of combining academic and athletic excellence, with the national title banners to prove that the two seemingly disparate elements of books and basketball can [...]
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THE DILLO — As I sat at a cramped table in the Armadillo Grill in the basement of the Bryan Center surrounded by Dukies too nervous to down their Coronas or queso, the same names kept flashing through my mind:
Richmond over Syracuse. Santa Clara over Arizona. Coppin State over South Carolina. Hampton over Iowa [...]
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