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Last night, North Carolina lost in the ACC Tournament and was semi-officially eliminated from the NCAA Tournament. It’s okay if you didn’t watch, since Thursday at the ACC Tournament only kind of counts.
Two nights ago, coincidentally, Weber State lost to Montana in the Big Sky Conference final, behind a 42-point performance for the ages from [...]
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Senior forward Lance Thomas’s right knee injury appears to be only a severe bone bruise, the Duke men’s basketball program said in a statement minutes ago.
Thomas left last night’s game against North Carolina early in the second half after banging knees with Tar Heel guard Larry Drew II, and while Drew looked to be in [...]
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Three observations on this weeks AP Top 25:
1. Somehow, Duke is ranked behind a three-loss Michigan State team. The Spartans just edged out the Blue Devils for the seventh spot in the AP poll despite having one more loss. This is surprising given the difficulty of Duke’s schedule thus far, and the fact that both [...]
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With the decade winding down, Sports Illustrated’s “2000s: The Decade In Sports” is intended to be “your portal to our look back at all of it — the dominant athletes, greatest games, biggest stories, fiercest rivalries, stunning upsets, spectacular flops, most brilliant minds, record-breaking performances and more.”
Below is a list of the many appearances that Duke [...]
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While optimism abounds on campus about the chances of this year’s Blue Devils make a run at a national championship, at least one writer has much more modest expectations for Duke this season.
SI.com’s Luke Winn released his pre-season college basketball Power Rankings today, and the Blue Devils came it at No. 12. Winn ranked Kansas [...]
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Watching North Carolina dismantle Michigan State in about three minutes and cut down the nets at Ford Field was a tough pill to swallow for Duke fans, and the local newscasts showing Franklin Street packed with excited Tar Heels didn’t help much either. But for all you Blue Devils out there who couldn’t stand to watch [...]
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With four games left in the conference schedule, Duke will need some help to win the ACC regular season championship.
Having suffered their second conference loss to the Tar Heels Monday, the Blue Devils currently sit in a two-way tie for second place in the conference. Although the team easily handled Clemson Friday, it doesn’t get [...]
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The View From Above
So Duke is No.1 again. After beating Maryland Saturday—well, is beating really the right word? Dismantling? Embarrassing? How about this: You know the movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” in which Brad Pitt ages backward toward infancy? If there is a verb for making someone all at once feel like a [...]
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The Wild, Wild, uh, Atlantic Coast
Nothing has put college basketball on its head more than the last week of ACC basketball. And the madness started and ended with the Tar Heels. Once the just-hand-them-the-trophy-now Tar Heels, North Carolina suddenly doesn’t appear as unbeatable. But this team is still crazy good, and even the best teams [...]
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If Gerald Henderson can consistently play like he did today, Duke is borderline unstoppable.
The last two games have been interesting for another reason, too, though. In the first eight minutes of the second halves against Davidson and Florida State, the Blue Devils looked Final Four ready–even Final Four worthy. But then in each of the [...]
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