The ACC Champions, the Duke Blue Devils, have one more game remaining this season. That is their bowl game against the Arizona State Sun Devils. The Blue Devils are going to the Sun Bowl, looking to cap off an amazing season for this team.
The Duke Blue Devils have had a huge 2025 College Football season. They have done things that many did not even think Duke would be in a position to do.
At least until March, Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer and Duke football head coach Manny Diaz are both reigning ACC champions. And as Scheyer noted
After 10 days off from games Duke hosted Lipscomb, while a tournament team last season the Bisons had a ton of turnover, something not unfamiliar to the Blue Devils.
At some point, you’d think people who make a living in basketball would figure this out: intelligence can compensate for athleticism. The classic examples are Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, but there are others: Steve Kerr, Don Nelson, Draymond Green, Charles Oakley, Stephen Curry and, most recently, Kon Knueppel.
The undefeated Blue Devils have two more non-conference games on the schedule. One seems like a given for the college basketball blue blood, while the other will be a true challenge.
In Tuesday’s ACC Action, Louisville fell at Tennessee 82-63, UNC dismissed East Tennessee State 77-58, Dayton beat Florida State 97-69, Clemson got by South Carolina 68-61, Miami stung FIU 98-81 and Georgia Tech slipped by Marist, 87-76.
Duke has had an unpredictable season to say the least. Despite five losses and a horrendous defense, the Blue Devils willed themselves to a conference championship.
For most of the junior league’s life span, the NBA and ABA had a testy relationship. The ABA did a lot of things the NBA did not like at all, like introducing the three point shot and having a flashier, fun focused game compared to the NBA’s stodgier, walk-it-up style.
It was a tale of two halves. Well, more specifically it was a tale of turnovers in two halves. In the first half against Lipscomb, Duke seemed totally disjointed and tossed the ball away constantly, racking up 16 before the break, which was somewhat shocking for a team that has really taken care of the ball all season.
Duke basketball jumped out to a 10-0 lead over the unranked Lipscomb Bisons (6-5, 0-0 ASUN) in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Tuesday night, as the No. 3-ranked Blue Devils (11-0, 0-0 ACC) initially looked the part of their unbeaten selves in the 97-73 victory.
The Duke Blue Devils return to action today, after having last week off due to finals week. The Blue Devils are looking to extend the unbeaten streak that they have had since the start of the season and get back on the court and continue to show that they are the best team in college basketball.
The Duke Blue Devils have had one of the most impressive runs, if not the most impressive run, out of any team in college basketball to start the season.
In Tuesday’s ACC Action, Louisville goes to Tennessee, Florida State visits Dayton, Clemson welcomes the hated Gamecocks, FIU buses over to Miami, Marist jets down to Georgia Tech and East Tennessee drops in on the Heels.
Duke is off to a 10-0 start this season after a big win on the road against Michigan State concluded a stretch against three ranked teams. That's all, despite lacking a truly threatening offense .
Cooper Flagg, as most Duke fans probably know, got off to a bit of a slow start as an NBA rookie. The Mavericks started him off at point guard and while he did okay there, it was asking a lot of an 18-year-0ld rookie and people started to say he was overrated.
The Duke basketball tradition of slapping the floor, an effort to bring all five Blue Devils on the court together in a show of unison to get a crucial defensive stop, started in the 1980s with the likes of Johnny Dawkins, Tommy Amaker, Mark Alarie, and Jay Bilas.
The Duke Blue Devils have pulled off a major upset in the ACC Championship Game as they secured a 27-20 overtime win over the 17th-ranked Virginia Cavaliers.
If the unranked Duke Blue Devils defeat the ranked Virginia Cavaliers in the ACC Championship, it would trigger a historic and controversial college football scenario: the ACC, a Power 4 league, would likely be left out of the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff entirely.