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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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It’s not about the records; tonight’s game between Duke and North Carolina is a rivalry game that just matters. At 9 p.m., the Blue Devils will face off against their Tobacco Road neighbor in front of a sell-out crowd in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Below are the lines for tonight’s game and my picks for each bet. [...]
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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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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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In his column yesterday, Ben Cohen asked Duke assistant coach Chris Collins an interesting question and got, well, a less than interesting response:
I got in touch with Chris Collins, Duke’s associate head coach, to ask whether Duke’s staff was a member of the growing ranks that swear by statistical analysis.
“The numbers we use a lot [...]
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UPDATE: I’ve posted a link to Excel files with spreadsheets I used in this analysis at the bottom of this page. There’s a bonus file, which has the Pomeroy rankings of each ACC team. If you’re a mathematical type of person and think that what I’ve done here is unsophisticated (at best), please see if [...]
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After Duke’s 77-56 win over Maryland today, a reporter asked Mike Krzyzewski about the rumor that the New Jersey Nets are interested in him as their next head coach.
Krzyzewski didn’t even bite, and joked away the speculation.
“I’ve not been contacted,” he said. “The guy [prospective Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov] is Russian, right? You think they’d [...]
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The Interwebs are all abuzz with the latest rumor: The 4-48, on-pace-to-be-the-worst-team-ever New Jersey Nets are targeting Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski to be their coach next season.
It seems that the first to jump on the bandwagon was The Bergen County Record’s Al Iannazzone. His story, headlined “Source: Mike Krzyzewski expected to be candidate to [...]
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CBS college basketball analyst and former Chronicle sports columnist Seth Davis was on campus Tuesday to speak to students and promote Coke Zero’s Department of Fannovation contest. Coke Zero will award $10,000 to the creator of the most innovative way to enhance the basketball fan experience as chosen by other fans. The Chronicle’s Gabe Starosta [...]
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Notwithstanding massive snowstorms and their effects this week, this is the time of year that Cameron Crazies embark on a journey known nationwide as tenting. And this year, The Chronicle is here to tell the tenters’ story in a more interactive way than ever before.
The Chronicle’s multimedia team, headed by junior Maya Robinson, recently launched [...]
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