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Duke 77-74, FINAL
After the teams traded baskets on the final possessions, the Blue Devils sealed their spot at the finals of the ACC Tournament by converting on free throws.
Be sure to check back later today for more content (including the video of Dickie V dancing with Erin Andrews!)
Duke 74-67, 32.8 left in the second half
Scheyer [...]
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Wow. Once again, Friday of Championship week was filled with a host of upsets, and many more near misses. Most importantly for the Blue Devils, all three top seeds in the ACC Tournament (minus Duke, of course) were upset yesterday, and many in stunning fashion. The two lowest seeds in the tournament, conference cellar-dwellars Miami [...]
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Well, Thursday of Championship Week was a buzzer-beater away from being a perfect storm for Duke fans. First, the Big East was hit by a massive upset bug, as Syracuse, Villanova, and Pittsburgh all went down in their respective first games of the tournament. While none of these upsets should directly affect Duke’s seed (I [...]
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Last year, the great Tim Britton took the lead as The Chronicle’s own “Bracketologist”, analyzing the impact of Conference Championship Week upsets on possible NCAA Tournament seeding, as well as predicting what seed Duke would receive. And while I can never purport to be as clairvoyant as Mr. Britton in that regard, I do know [...]
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Duke’s smashing of North Carolina on Saturday night marked the end of the regular season and the beginning of Championship Week. The ACC Tournament begins on Thursday with four first round matchups and the Blue Devils begin play on Friday when they face the winner of the Boston College-Virginia game.
Here’s how Duke’s first game (12 [...]
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Jake Lemmerman slammed a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh Saturday to give Duke a 5-3 lead, which center fielder Will Piwnica-Worms preserved with an acrobatic catch to end the game, give the Blue Devils the series win over No. 8 Georgia Tech and send Duke into the ACC tournament [...]
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When the ACC tournament comes to Durham May 20, the Blue Devils, for the first time since 2005, won’t be missing out on the action.
Junior Alex Hassan went 3-for-5 with a three-run homer and senior Andrew Wolcott pitched a complete game to send the Blue Devils to a 6-4 win over No. [...]
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CHAPEL HILL — Senior Ned Crotty said after Friday’s game against second-seeded Virginia that he wasn’t sure No. 3 Duke would win until two minutes remained.
If he wasn’t lying, he probably was the only one who waited that long.
The Blue Devils (11-3) stymied the high-octane Cavaliers (13-2) with a stellar defensive effort in a 16-5 victory [...]
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ATLANTA — Make room in the rafters for the Blue Devils’ first banner since 2006.
Third-seeded Duke rolled out to a 35-21 halftime lead, and its potent trio of Gerald Henderson, Jon Scheyer and Kyle Singler helped the Blue Devils win the ACC Tournament in a 79-69 rout Sunday at the Georgia [...]
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DUKE 79-69, FINAL: And the Blue Devils win their first ACC Tournament, or postseason title of any kind, since 2007. Out to catch a flight back to Durham. More later.
DUKE 65-51, 3:54: Florida State has scored eight straight points, but that matters less when the Blue Devils had already built a 22-point lead.
DUKE 65-43, 6:12: [...]
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