In last summer’s NBA Draft, Cooper Flagg went first to Dallas, Rutgers’ Dylan Harper second to San Antonio, Baylor’s V.J. Edgecombe third to Philly and Flagg’s Duke teammate Kon Knueppel fourth to Charlotte.
The No. 3-ranked Duke Blue Devils (24-2, 13-1 ACC) are gearing up to take on No. 1 Michigan this Saturday in Washington, D.C. at Capital One Arena in what could very well be the best game of the entire 2025-26 college basketball season.
Over the past few weeks, Duke has been among the nation’s most active programs on the high school recruiting trail. Under head coach Manny Diaz, the Blue Devils have emerged as contenders for some of the top prospects in the 2027 class and are continuing to target several additional recruits.
A Monday night game being the 3rd game in 6 days, directly after a top 20 win against Clemson, truly felt like it could have been a trap game. Especially with the number 1 team in the nation looming next.
The No. 3-ranked Duke Blue Devils improved to 24-2 overall and 13-1 in ACC play following a 101-64 demolition of Syracuse (15-12, 6-8 ACC) on Monday night.
The No. 3-ranked Duke Blue Devils improved to 24-2 overall and 13-1 in conference play following a dominant 101-64 defeat of Syracuse (15-12, 6-8 ACC) at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Monday night.
In Tuesday’s ACC Action, Boston College is at Florida State, Louisville sees SMU, Virginia Tech goes to Miami and UNC takes the short drive over to Raleigh to see about Will Wade’s NC State Wolfpack.
Gary Payton built a Hall of Fame NBA career from 1990-2007. A 6-4 native of Oakland, California, Payton went to Oregon State, where he built a tremendous reputation as a defender and all-around point guard.
Duke was able to have its best defensive performance this season against 20th-ranked Clemson on Saturday afternoon. The Blue Devils limited the Tigers to 35% shooting from the field as a team and 6-of-24 (25%) shooting from three-point range.
Syracuse kept up with Duke for about the first 11 1/2 minutes but after that, it was all Duke in a 101-64 blowout. For the first few minutes, Syracuse did play well and to their credit, they competed hard throughout.
The Duke Blue Devils boast one of the best resumes in college basketball and have been firmly in the mix to earn a 1-seed in the NCAA Tournament for the past several weeks.
#4 Duke Blue Devils (23-2, 12-1 ACC) vs Syracuse Orange (15-11, 6-7 ACC) Monday, Feb. 16 • 7:00 p.m. ET Cameron Indoor Stadium (9,314) • Durham, NC TV: ESPN Radio: Blue Devil Sports Network from LEARFIELD The Blue Devils welcome in the Syracuse Orange in a quick turnaround in Cameron Indoor Stadium Monday night on ESPN.
Next up for Duke is a Monday visit from the Syracuse Orange. The Blue Devils get a Saturday-Monday turnaround which is actually useful since it simulates the NCAA tournament structure where you (hopefully) play a second time with one day’s rest (in fairness, so does the Orange, and they have to fly, too).
If you haven’t heard, the Big 12 is going to do something really interesting: the conference have an LED court for its basketball tournament. Here’s a video that shows some of its potential and here’s one from the NBA.
No. 4 Duke improved to 23-2 overall and 12-1 in ACC play following a 67-54 victory on Saturday at Cameron Indoor Stadium over No. 20 Clemson (20-6, 10-3 ACC).
Before Mike Krzyzewski got to Duke in 1980, we had the relatively brief Bill Foster era. Foster was more of a builder than a sustainer. He did a nice job at Rutgers, then again at Utah, before moving to Duke.
With its impressive 67-54 win over the No. 20-ranked Clemson Tigers in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday afternoon, Duke basketball tallied the ACC's sixth home winning streak of at least 29 games since the 1991-92 season.
The Syracuse Orange come to town on Monday night, and Duke has to do a quick turnaround to face them. We preview the upcoming game on DBR Bites #144. The Orange have some good players to look out for, but they haven’t been able to find the consistency as a team.
Nothing would have been finer for Carolina than to have broken Duke’s winning streak Sunday in Cameron, but that didn’t happen as the Blue Devils beat the Tar Heels 72-68 to push the streak to 16.
Former Duke Blue Devils star Jay Williams recently appeared on ESPN’s Get Up, making it clear that he believes college basketball produces a better on-court product than the NBA.
College basketball's most storied rivalry delivered another epic chapter on Saturday night when the No. 14 North Carolina Tar Heels shocked the No. 4 Duke Blue Devils.
The Duke Blue Devils and North Carolina Tar Heels are set to renew college basketball's most heated rivalry Saturday night at the Dean Smith Center. ESPN's "College GameDay" rolled into Chapel Hill for the special occasion, with the crew making their picks in front of a packed, divided crowd ahead of the 6:30 p.m.
North Carolina freshman Caleb Wilson’s dislike of Duke goes beyond the historic rivalry between the two blue-blood schools. Wilson has emerged as one of the best freshmen in a loaded 2025 college recruiting class.