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The Cameron Crazies won’t have to worry about not seeing No. 20 on the court this season.
No, Elliot Williams is not reneging on his decision to transfer to Memphis. Instead, the number will be bestowed upon Andre Dawkins — formerly a top recruit from the class of 2010 and now, the newest Blue Devil who [...]

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It’s official: Mike Krzyzewski is going for gold again.
As was reported two weeks ago, Krzyzewski  has agreed to try to lead Team USA to another gold medal at the 2010 World Championships in Turkey and the 2012 Olympics in London. He guided the United States to a gold in Beijing, and after Managing Director Jerry [...]

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Duke Sports Information announced Thursday that the men’s basketball program has created an official Twitter account—@DukeMBB—for fans to follow.
According to GoDuke.com, the team’s Twitter will provide “news from the team, links to newspaper clippings, links to video clips and other information on Blue Devil hoops that cannot be found anywhere else.” It remains unclear how [...]

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Mike Krzyzewski, despite an imposter account, hasn’t made it onto Twitter yet, but his associate head coaches are picking up the slack.
Steve Wojciechowski (@steve_wojo) and Chris Collins (@coach_collins) are two of the latest coaches to join this fad craze, and they’re far from the only tweeting coaches on campus. David Cutcliffe (@davidcutcliffe) has been texting [...]

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For more of Glen Gutterson’s photos from Duke’s 78-75 overtime win over Miami, check out a slideshow by following this link.

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Alumni, Men's Basketball

Q&A With Jay Williams

by Ben Cohen on January 15, 2009

Former Duke point guard Jay Williams–who, as he points out, has his jersey hanging in Cameron Indoor Stadium’s rafters–was in town today for a promotion at Alltel Wireless in Durham at 5 p.m. and caught up with The Chronicle this morning. Williams is working in the ESPN studio on Tuesdays and Saturdays with Hubert Davis [...]

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Media, Men's Basketball

SI Vault Honors Duke Preview Covers

by Ben Cohen on November 13, 2008

In my younger and more vulnerable days, I used to keep all the Sports Illustrateds that arrived in the mailbox Thursday. Now, in my closet, I have stacks and stacks of fading covers glorifying Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, deifying football players no one remembers, honoring some of the most unforgettable sporting events of the [...]

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This is the second of five clips from a June 17 exclusive interview with Mike Krzyzewski that The Chronicle will post this week (the rest will come at midnight every day). In this excerpt, Coach K responds to the common criticism of having former Blue Devil point guard Steve Wojciechowski’s as the team’s big-man coach.

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At his annual summer press conference Tuesday, Mike Krzyzewski said he would not appoint his own successor, because it wasn’t in his right as a men’s basketball coach–that decision belongs to Duke, and Duke only. Earlier in the day, Krzyzewski told The Chronicle in an exclusive interview, though, that he would use his input in [...]

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Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski has announced that Nate James will fill the open assistant coach spot on the Duke bench. James captained Duke’s 2001 national championship team and is currently the squad’s strength and conditioning coach.
He succeeds former associate head coach Johnny Dawkins, now the head coach at Stanford. He joins fellow former Blue Devils Steve [...]

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