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This is the seventh in a series of Duke’s All-Decade teams, as named by various Chronicle writers, past and present. At the end of the series, you will be able to vote for your own All-Decade team, and your votes will determine The Sports Blog’s final choice. Stay tuned over the next two weeks for [...]
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I know, I know, Blue Devil nation. You’ve been waiting all day, refreshing your feed to both Twitter and the Chronicle Sports Blog, pacing your room, mentally preparing yourself for this hopefully prescient preview. Problems with identifying the media shuttle–”You can’t miss it,” the doorman said. We proved him wrong–and with signing up for the [...]
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A respectable 6-2 mark yesterday–I mean, I’m no Barack Obama–leaves me at 27-13 for the Tournament. Remember, my original picks (before they were messed up Friday) are in parentheses.
No. 3 Syracuse v. No. 6 Arizona State (Syracuse over Temple)
As a Syracuse fan, this game worries me. If you drew up the perfect player to stick [...]
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THE CONTENTS: No. 2 Duke looks to reach its first Sweet 16 in three seasons when it battles No. 7 Texas in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Tip-off is scheduled for 8:15 p.m. in Greensboro Coliseum. You can see the game on CBS with Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg and hear it on [...]
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After the first round and a stellar 9-7 mark yesterday (I’m like the Arizona Cardinals of March Madness predictions), I stand at a sparkling 21-11, or, somehow, a game ahead of last year’s anemic 20-12 pace. Oh, and I only lost one Final Four team, Wake Forest, who I had beating West Virginia in the [...]
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I’m off to a flying 12-4 start, even though I boldly stated that Memphis would rout Northridge (I mean, 81-70 qualifies as a rout in my book) and that LSU would almost certainly lose. I regret nothing. I did after all call that Western Kentucky upset, and NOBODY saw that one coming.
FRIDAY NIGHT
No. 7 Boston [...]
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THE CONTENTS: No. 2 Duke takes on No. 15 Binghamton in the first round of the NCAA Tournament tonight at Greensboro Coliseum. Tip-off is scheduled for 9:40 p.m. You can see the game on CBS with Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg and hear it on 620 AM.
THE EXPOSITION: The Blue Devils enter the Tournament on [...]
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Last year, I went an incredible 38-25 in my round-by-round picks for the NCAA Tournament (n.b.: the “incredible” is a bit of what we in the business call “editorializing”). This year, the goal is to top that number, and I’m off to a good start with my choice of Morehead State in the play-in Opening [...]
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In preparation for Thursday night’s first-round contest between No. 2 Duke and No. 15 Binghamton, I sat down—that’s a figure of speech, it was more an e-mail exchange—with Cyril Cheriyan, the sports editor of the Pipe Dream, the student newspaper at Binghamton.
First off, it’s Binghamton’s first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament. Is [...]
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7:21 — Some final thoughts after listening to the riveting ESPN debate about majors vs. mid-majors, which happens every year regardless what happens. I had Penn State in over Arizona, and I stand by that. The Nittany Lions had more wins in a tougher conference than the Wildcats, and their wins came against the top [...]
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