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Carrick Felix, a 6-foot-6 wing player from the College of Southern Idaho, announced via his facebook page Tuesday that he intended to accept Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski’s scholarship offer and join the Blue Devils.
Felix is described as an extremely athletic player (a scouting report from Rivals.com described him as possessing “NBA Athleticism”) who is a tough-nosed [...]
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Last month, Olek Czyz announced that he was transferring from Duke and had been debating between Nevada and Arizona State over the past couple of weeks. By transferring in the middle of the season and enrolling in classes by January 22, Czyz becomes eligible to play in the second semester of next season. Yesterday, The [...]
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Duke’s 2009 recruiting class was hailed for yielding two skilled big men to bolster a front-court that most national prognosticators had deemed the Blue Devils’ weakness for much of the post-Shelden Williams era. But while Mason Plumlee has stolen most of the spotlight (at least before a wrist injury contributed to him losing his projected [...]
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The Reno Gazette-Journal reports that Nevada is actively recruiting Duke forward Olek Czyz, who announced this week that he will transfer. The Wolf Pack has received permission from the Blue Devils’ program to contact with the sophomore. Czyz still has two and a half years of eligibility but must sit out the remainder of the [...]
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UPDATE | 10:30 a.m.: Sophomore forward Olek Czyz will transfer from Duke, the program announced in a statement this morning. A native of Poland who went to high school in Reno, Czyz is expected to matriculate to another Division-I school.
“Olek has a bright future ahead of him and we wish him the best of luck,” [...]
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During Countdown to Craziness Friday night, the Blue Devils combined the Blue-White game with a videos featuring players, an awards show and a dunk contest, but before all of that, the Duke players strutted out, one-by-one, to entrance music of their choice. Duke even lured Michael Buffer—are you ready to rumble?—into introducing the squad, a [...]
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Junior guard Nolan Smith got the most attention—for someone nicknamed Showtime, was it really a surprise that he walked out to Jay-Z rocking blue stunner shades, and then ripped off his jersey to show his retro Johnny Dawkins threads underneath?—and Andre Dawkins was technically a co-winner of the dunk contest, but it was Olek Czyz [...]
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Regardless of what Duke accomplishes on the court, one of the program’s biggest successes of the last year has been the development of Duke Blue Planet, a standalone website and magazine devoted solely to Duke Basketball. You can browse through issues of the magazine online, but the website, YouTube channel and photography gallery are even [...]
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Photo by Lawson Kurtz/The Chronicle
A massive double-digit lead at the end of the game is like Christmas morning for Duke’s freshmen—it’s their chance to step onto the court, get into the game and start racking up the stats. First came Miles Plumlee about five minutes into the second half of Duke’s 97-54 win over Georgia [...]
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POSTGAME THOUGHTS
Singler and freshman Elliot Williams led the Blue Devils in scoring with 15 points each. Henderson and Plumlee finished with 14.
From the 6:20 mark, Williams took over offensively for Duke, hitting two straight threes to put the team ahead 95-38. Williams also had a huge dunk at the 4-minute mark.
The Blue Devils had a [...]
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