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According to a report in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the Blue Devils will travel to Madison for a road game against the Wisconsin Badgers during next year’s ACC/Big Ten Challenge. Duke will play Wisconsin Wednesday Dec. 2 with the time yet to be determined. This would be the Blue Devils’ second meeting with the Badgers in [...]
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Non-conference games against Army and Kansas, an early November game at North Carolina and the ACC opener at home against Virginia Tech highlight Duke’s 2009 schedule, released by the ACC Thursday. Eight of Duke’s 12 opponents went to bowl games, two finished the year in the top 25 and one won the Division I-AA national [...]
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No surprise here: Duke has officially added a Sept. 27 game with N.C. Central, its fourth non-conference opponent for 2009, the athletic department announced in a statement Friday. The Eagles are the second Division I-AA team the Blue Devils will play—national champion Richmond will also come to Wallace Wade Stadium Sept. 5 next year—and per [...]
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They’re not quite up to the level of Mike Krzyzewski’s team, but John Danowski’s Blue Devils won’t be playing in obscurity, either.
Duke, a Final Four participant last season, will play twice on ESPNU and once on ESPN2 this season. Last year, the Blue Devils played six regular season games on ESPNU, the ACC tournament championship [...]
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…And no, I’m not talking about basketball. In a discovery I think might surprise you as much as it did me, the new Sagarin NCAA football ratings are out for this week and they report the Blue Devils have played the second toughest schedule of all college teams in games to date. Maybe I’m late [...]
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As Part I of The Sports Blog’s ACC preview—in coordination with the release of our mammoth ACC basketball supplement, which hits newstands today—The Chronicle breaks down the best teams outside the ACC, including the ones Duke will tangle with.
Big Ten
Contenders: Michigan State should remain among the Big Ten elite, and could be a legitimate Final [...]
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Last year, Joanne P. McCallie’s squad hosted Rutgers and Tennessee in Cameron Indoor Stadium for its two marquee non-conference home games. The year before, Duke welcomed Vanderbilt and Texas and traveled to Rutgers and Tennessee. This year, though, the No. 8 Blue Devils have only one signature home contest before league play: No. 2 Stanford, [...]
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For the third conescutive week, the Blue Devils will be in the afternoon slot, playing at a time they might have preferred more in early September. Duke’s Nov. 1 game at Wake Forest will kick off at 3:30 p.m. on ESPN 360, the ACC announced in its weekly schedule release Monday.
The Blue Devils’ 49-31 loss [...]
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Duke’s Oct. 25 game at No. 22 Vanderbilt will begin at 3 p.m. and will not be televised, the Atlantic Coast Conference announced in its weekly schedule release Monday. It will be Duke’s second straight afternoon game, as the Blue Devils play Miami at 3:30 p.m. this Saturday in Wallace Wade Stadium.
The game, which falls [...]
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Duke rested up in its second bye week of the year Saturday, but its ACC opponents managed to rack up a perfect 4-0 record Saturday–even if some games were uglier than they should have been.
Georgia Tech, the squad that manhandled the Blue Devils last week in a 27-0 win, squeaked past Gardner-Webb, 10-7, while Miami’s [...]
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