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Kentucky and Duke won’t meet in this year’s NCAA Tournament unless both make it to the Final Four, but the two do have quite a history–recently, it has involved recruits John Wall and Patrick Patterson, and before that, it involved a certain foul-line jumper at the Meadowlands.
But now, the antagonistic relationship between the two bluebloods [...]
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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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Check out my photos from the women’s ACC Championship game.
WBB_ACCTourney_Ian – Images by Duke Student Publishing Co. Duke Chronicle
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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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With College GameDay coming to Cameron Indoor Stadium this weekend, the folks at ESPN asked The Chronicle to give a little local color to explain why the Duke-UNC game matters so much, especially this season, since Duke and North Carolina are at opposite ends of the ACC standings. Here’s what we came up with:
As [...]
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In today’s column, a follow-up on my last column making the statistical case that Duke’’s performance declines over the course of the ACC’s schedule, I tried to determine whether that decline in performance is due to fatigue. I made four separate, but related, points:
Neither high-minute players (guards averaging greater than 34 minutes per game or [...]
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Michael Jordan has promised to make his mark as the new majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, and His Airness went as far as joining in in the team’s shootaround this morning in Charlotte. After the workout, Jordan challenged former Duke guard Gerald Henderson to a friendly game of H-O-R-S-E. But despite what would seem [...]
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FINAL SCORE: Duke 67, Virginia, 49
1:09 2nd Half; Duke 64 , Virginia 45: With 2:52 to go, Meyinsse is taken out of the game along with any chance of Virginia going on any sort of run. If anything has stuck out this game, it would be the Cavalier’s inability to get any sort of momentum [...]
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Heading into its game tonight at Virginia, Duke is in prime position to make a legitimate run at a No. 1 Seed in the upcoming NCAA Tournament.
Villanova, which occupied one of the No.1 seeds along with Kansas, Kentucky and Syracuse, seems to have lost its grip on a top seed. The Wildcats have struggled mightily [...]
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Brian Zoubek’s streak of stellar performances continued Thursday, as the center recorded a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds. That prompted teammate Jon Scheyer to say:
“Zoubs has been awesome, obviously. He’s made so many plays throughout the game, and because he’s been playing more I think you’re seeing his passion come out. His intensity [...]
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