Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje is on campus at Duke after a very successful run in Istanbul with the U17 Team USA. The U.S. won gold, and Boumtje Boumtje, who was already moving up in virtually everyone’s estimations, just made a huge impression.
It seems like we have been on a hot streak with the defensive players on our Duke football 2026 top 30 countdown, but here we are with another member of the defensive side of the ball.
The Duke Blue Devils are in the mix for one of the top prospects in the 2027 recruiting class, and his pro player comparisons may come as a bit of a surprise. Lewis Uvwo, a 5-star prospect in the 2027 recruiting class per 247Sports, has been gaining interest from the Duke Blue Devils.
The Duke football program will be one of the more interesting teams to follow in college football this season, but not necessarily for all the best reasons.
First things first: we didn’t watch the whole match, so while Egypt made its anger clear about calls and non-calls, we don’t have an opinion on that here.
Cameron Boozer came into his freshman season with the Duke Blue Devils regarded as one of the most decorated high school recruits ever, and he delivered on the expectations, continuing his winning ways.
The Duke football program made several intriguing additions on both sides of the ball via the transfer portal, and although they might not be marquee names, the Blue Devils' defensive unit could surprise fans in 2026.
In our YouTube Gold today, we featured Cameron Williams and touched briefly on having both Williams and Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje on the roster, and alluded to the challenge of having this much talent and what to do with it.
The Duke Blue Devils have had a lot of success with star freshmen in recent years, and they could have another one or two waiting in the wings. In each of the last two seasons, a Blue Devil freshman has walked away with the Naismith College Player of the Year Award.
In Monday night’s NBA Summer League play, former Duke star Cameron Boozer continues to impress. He finished the game against Utah with 18 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, hit 4-5 on his threes, and shot 6-9 overall, and did that in 27 minutes.
Duke fans are understandably gleeful about the seemingly sudden rise of Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje. The kid was a sensation in Istanbul in the FIBA U17 World Cup.
So it’s July—a month where the biggest basketball news is usually “player spotted in the gym” or “recruit posts a workout video”—and Arizona basketball Twitter has already decided Cam Williams’ career trajectory.
There is an important game late in the season for the Duke Blue Devils that is going under the radar, and it could have massive implications for Duke’s ceiling for the 2026 season. Next season will feature a rematch of last year’s ACC championship game.
In his second NBA Summer League game, the former Blue Devil didn’t offer much offensively, but his defense is what Duke fans have come to expect, and then some.
There has been a sort-of theme in stories about Duke Basketball next season that goes something like this: well, they won’t have Cooper Flagg or Cameron Boozer this time, so… Well, maybe, maybe not.
As expected, the U.S. won gold in the FIBA U17 World Cup Sunday, beating Serbia 107-81, behind another strong game from Duke-bound Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje.
The Duke Blue Devils will have high expectations placed on them for next season. After finding a way to walk away with the ACC title despite a 7-5 overall record last season, many are expecting Duke to build off of that success. In just Manny Diaz’s second season as head coach of the Blue Devils, they found themselves at the top of the ACC.
Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje and the U.S. U17 team continue to crush it in Turkey, this time with a 114-65 win over Australia in the semifinals. Although the U.S.
The Duke Blue Devils will have high expectations placed on them for next season. After finding a way to walk away with the ACC title despite a 7-5 overall record last season, many are expecting Duke to build off of that success. In just Manny Diaz’s second season as head coach of the Blue Devils, they found themselves at the top of the ACC.
Cameron Boozer made his NBA Summer League debut on Saturday against Oklahoma City, and it’s safe to say he left an impression. Boozer played 24 minutes, and scored 15 points, pulled down 4 rebounds, and also passed out 4 assists.
The Duke football program is entering the 2026 season with lower expectations than it anticipated after its ACC Championship victory in 2025. Head coach Manny Diaz delivered the program's first conference crown since 1989 last season, and the Blue Devils were poised to enter 2026 as potentially the team to beat out of the ACC.
The NBA has begun sending out green room invitations for the 2026 draft. According to ESPN’s Jeremy Woo, the league has invited 14 draft prospects to attend the event so far, with additional invitations expected to be issued in the coming days.