Monday, Jan. 26 | 7:00 PM ET | ESPN Location: Cameron Indoor Stadium (Durham, NC) Opening Statement Duke welcomes Louisville to Cameron Indoor Stadium for a high-leverage ACC showdown with March implications.
Drop us a line This time was supposed to be different. Louisville with Mikel Brown was supposed to be a much tougher out. That’s what we thought, anyway.
After Duke’s fallout with previous quarterback Darian Mensah, who entered the portal at the last minute, Manny Diaz and company were in a real bind. Suing Mensah for breach of contract was probably critical as college sports moves to a pay-for-play world.
Duke’s road victory over Louisville comes with an unfortunate asterisk: the Cardinals’ best player, freshman Mikel Brown Jr., was inactive. In fact, Brown had missed all of Louisville’s ACC action before playing in their win Saturday over Virginia Tech.
Date 1/26 || Time 7:00 || Venue Cameron Indoor Stadium || Video ESPN Duke and Louisville are scheduled to play Monday night but that’s not guaranteed given the weather in the Triangle and Louisville, among other locales.
With only one game on the schedule, a convincing win over Wake Forest at home yesterday, Duke did little to improve its own resume this week. Yet, this may be the week that cemented the Blue Devils’ status as a team that “controls its own destiny” for a No.1.
College basketball was quite different in 1988. The Age of Duke was just a few years old and no one understood that it was an historical epoch. Duke hadn’t even won a national championship at that point.
The Duke Blue Devils (18-1, 7-0 ACC) have now rattled off seven straight victories to begin ACC action following a 90-69 victory over Wake Forest (11-9, 2-5 ACC) at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday.
There's still well over a month before the Duke basketball team hosts its archrival, the UNC Tar Heels, in Durham on Saturday, March 7, at 6:30 p.m. ET (ESPN).
First-year Duke basketball standout and projected one-and-done lottery pick Cameron Boozer doesn't concern himself with stuffing his stat sheet. Even so, the boxscores that the 6-foot-9, 250-pound power forward continues to deliver have him in the running for truckloads of hardware, at both the ACC and national level.
Nearly halfway through league play, No. 5 Duke is the premier squad in the Atlantic Coast Conference. But which school is No. 2 in the conference remains up in the air.
Attorneys for Duke and for its former/current/future quarterback Darian Mensah will meet in a Durham County courtroom on Thursday. In a typical court case docket, this hearing would be listed among 20 other items already filed in a case that is only a week old.
The Blue Devils have been clawing their way back defensively to the team they were prior to Texas Tech, and after 2 superb games on the West Coast, they seem to have done that.
With the intense storm bearing down on the Triangle and, well, everywhere else north of Florida (stop laughing, Floridians. You’ll hear from us during mosquito smacking season), there’s a strong chance we’ll lose power for some time.
There was a bit of unexpected news during the Duke-Wake game on Saturday as a new roster addition has apparently been made: Malcolm Wilson, late of Queens, has transferred to Duke.
In a move that has stunned the sports world, Duke University has filed a lawsuit against its own star quarterback, Darian Mensah, attempting to block him from transferring to another school.
Duke University officially sued quarterback Darian Mensah on Tuesday, seeking a restraining order that would prevent Mensah from entering the NCAA transfer portal.