Well, it didn’t look pretty early for the 6th-ranked Duke Blue Devils, but the powerhouse program was able to use a second-half surge to propel past No.
The No. 6-ranked Duke Blue Devils (14-1, 3-0 ACC) put together a fantastic comeback effort in the second half to take down No. 20 Louisville (11-4, 1-2 ACC) 84-73 at the KFC Yum!
What is with Duke and comebacks in the Yum! Center? Duke’s comeback at Louisville in 2019 was shocking because it happened really fast. Duke was down 23 with 9:58 to play.
In Tuesday’s ACC Action, Syracuse took care of Georgia Tech 82-72 and NC State survived Boston College, 79-71. We were curious about how Cuse’s Naithan George would perform going up against his old team.
It’s really kind of amazing just how much Duke Basketball is now part of the overall sphere of basketball, if you’ll forgive the pun. In college, you see a number of coaches – Jeff Capel, Johnny Dawkins, Bobby Hurley, Greg Paulus and Nolan Smith come to mind.
The No. 6-ranked Duke Blue Devils (14-1, 3-0 ACC) pulled off an electric comeback effort to take down No. 20 Louisville (11-4, 1-2 ACC) at the KFC Yum!
A few years ago, we saw a post saying that only (maybe) four players had ever blocked Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Sky Hook, but we keep finding other guys who did it.
Louisville won the first half but Duke won the second and with that, the game, winning 84-73. The first half against Louisville really didn’t start very well for Duke as Ryan Conwell hit his first three three point attempts and finished the half with four.
Between the Duke basketball team's hard-fought victories over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Florida State Seminoles last week, Cameron Boozer averaged 21.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, 5.5 assists, and 3.0 steals.
Almost four years since retiring, legendary Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski remains the all-time Division I wins leader (1,202-368 career record).
Sitting inside the top 10 in the 2028 cycle, The Tatnall School (Del.) small forward Mason Collins now looks like a prime candidate to eventually become one of the first 2028 prospects to receive an offer from fourth-year Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer and the blueblood recruiting team in Durham.
Date 1/6 || Time 7:00 || Venue KFC Yum! Center || Video ESPN Next up for Duke is a date with Louisville in the Yum! Center, and that’s not as easy as it used to be.
The ACC Network was occupied, its scheduled showing of the ACC opener between Duke and Georgia Tech delayed by a rivalry game within the state of Virginia.
Being the head coach of Duke basketball is one of the most sought-after jobs in the world of college basketball, and for obvious reasons. The brand, the exposure, the constant expectation to win, the talent that comes in each year.
No one playing on Tuesday (other than the highlight game of Duke-Louisville) has less than five losses, but both games have compelling storylines. In the 7:00 game between Syracuse and Georgia Tech, Naithan George returns to Atlanta, which should be interesting.
The NBA started in the late 1940’s, so if you take the league’s official starting point as 1946, with the BAA which merged with the NBL to make the NBA, it is 79 now and will hit 80 later in the year, presumably at the start of next season.
The Duke Blue Devils' Football season this past year was something special. It was a season that no one but the team saw coming. They did things that many thought were possible for a school that is known for being a basketball powerhouse.