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 [...]
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 [...]
Speaking in Page Auditorium tonight, Mike Krzyzewski asked a group of prospective K-Ville residents to return to the more “spontaneous” roots of the Cameron Crazies. Specifically, Krzyzewski asked students to eliminate the cheer sheets distributed before every game in favor of new and different chants for each opponent. Krzyzewski also announced that he would be [...]
Seth Curry is working hard during his year-long hiatus from NCAA basketball. The sophomore transfer from Liberty is currently competing for the second-ranked United States in the U19 World Championships being held in Auckland, New Zealand. The US team is 3-0 coming out of pool B in the preliminary rounds, having beaten Iran, France and [...]
Seth Curry’s transfer to Duke is finally official.
The Duke program announced that Curry will join the Blue Devils next year and sit out the 2009-2010 season before finally playing as a redshirt sophomore in the 2010-2011 year. The Chronicle reported the news March 30, but Mike Krzyzewski made the deal official in a press release [...]
For months, Duke had been in the John Wall sweepstakes, even though Mike Krzyzewski had never formally offered the nation’s top-ranked point guard from Raleigh.
That changed this weekend, as Krzyzewski offered Wall when he was on campus for an official visit, Wall confirmed to Scout.com Sunday.
Wall came to campus and toured the Gothic Wonderland [...]
When Seth announced his intention to transfer, did you know he wanted to come to Duke?
When he decided to transfer and when Liberty gave him his release, we just waited to see who was interested, and Duke went right to the top of the list. As soon as all the paperwork was in and everything [...]
Just three days after losing in the NCAA Tournament, Duke is already beginning to reload not only for next year, but also for the 2010-11 season.
Seth Curry, the highest-scoring freshman in the country last season, will transfer from Liberty to Duke, his father, Dell Curry, confirmed to The Chronicle Sunday. The brother of Davidson star [...]
After his team’s season ended in the NCAA Tournament Thursday, Mike Krzyzewski conceded that the Blue Devils needed a point guard, in addition to a post player.
Just a few days later, Duke might be closing in on some of the guards it needs.
John Wall, the nation’s No. 1 point guard recruit, will visit campus Sunday [...]