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UPDATE, 9 p.m.: It appears as if Duke student tickets are sold out. Will get the ticket office on the phone as soon as we can to verify.
The Blue Devils still have to win two games to get to Detroit, but students can already begin to make their travel plans.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Duke Athletics [...]

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Inside Lacrosse, the mecca of online lacrosse coverage, has been rehashing the details of the 2008 college season and announced the “Top 10 Surprises” Wednesday. Not surprisingly, Duke’s loss to Johns Hopkins in the national semifinal made the list, coming in at No. 2, only behind national champion Syracuse’s turnaround season.
As we all know by [...]

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Audio from John Danowski
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Despite the Blue Devils’ obvious disappointment associated with coming up short of the program’s first national championship, head coach John Danowski wasn’t too outwardly upset about the loss.
“The sadness I feel–it’s not losing the game today,” Danowski said. “Listen, I’ve learned in the last two years the games aren’t [...]

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During a brief layover in Philadelphia before hopping a plane to Boston for this weekend’s Final Four, I noticed something out of the corner of my eye on a TV in a nearby bar.
Bob Ley was on ESPN’s Outside the Lines, which showed images of Duke lacrosse players practicing. I couldn’t hear the audio, but of [...]

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FINAL, Pennsylvania 9, Duke 8: Game over, season over for Duke, which lost in the national semifinal for the fourth straight year. This time, the Blue Devils were up 7-4 before forcing overtime and finally losing 4:08 into the extra period. Carolyn Davis led the unranked Blue Devils with five goals on the night. Game [...]

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It’s only fitting that it turned out this way.
Heading into its third Final Four in the last four seasons, Duke must once again face Johns Hopkins for a chance at the program’s first national title. The Blue Devils lost to the Blue Jays in each of their last two visits to the post-season’s last weekend, [...]

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Senior attackman Zack Greer poured in six goals and contributed five assists as top-seeded Duke cruised into the Final Four Sunday, pounding Ohio State 21-10 in Ithaca, N.Y. The win was Duke’s 18th of the year, setting a new NCAA season record.
Sophomore attackman Max Quinzani–who owns the second-most goals in the country, trailing only Greer–scored [...]

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