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Here’s some huge news for Duke Basketball: Pat Ngongba is coming back for his junior season. That’s a really big deal for Duke, no pun intended. Big Pat showed a huge amount last season. He really helped shore up the interior defense, and his offense is subtle and effective. He’s also a really good passer. […]
The rare player who stayed four years and graduated, Seth Trimble now starts to explore next steps in his basketball career. Injuries hampered Seth’s senior season in multiple ways, sidelining him for nine games with a broken left forearm suffered in the weight room. Injury sidelined the team’s most important player, Caleb Wilson, for the […]
Drew Scharnowski announced on Sunday that he’s transferring to Duke from Belmont, which has led a lot of people to ask: who is Drew Scharnowski? As it turns out, he’s pretty promising. When you watch this video, you’ll see a guy who is big, athletic, and smart. He is a capable defender, and a willing […]
The Laettner era was amazing for Duke fans in many ways. Obviously, Christian Laettner’s competitive flame burned incredibly bright. He developed a mystique like no one else in college basketball history: other fan bases truly hated him, but they also feared him, because Laettner was absolutely ruthless. He gutted everyone: UNC, Connecticut, Kentucky. They all […]
Between the resignation of embattled coach Bucky Waters in 1973, and the arrival of Gene Banks and Kenny Dennard in 1977, there wasn’t a whole lot to celebrate for Duke Basketball. Bill Foster took the job after a ludicrous plan to bring Adolph Rupp out of retirement didn’t work out, and Foster was a builder. […]
Dan Hurley has another impact transfer from the portal, as the Huskies have landed Nikolas Khamenia from Duke. Khamenia, a 6-foot-8 forward, was the No. 19 recruit in the country per 247Sports composite rankings before joining Duke last season. Like his future teammate Najai Hines, Khamenia is a rising sophomore and has three years of […]
The Plumlee era of Duke Basketball was really fun. Think about it: three brothers, all 6-10 or taller, all come to Duke, where they all win national championships. What are the odds of that? Side note: as many of you will recall, the Plumlees all left Indiana for Asheville’s Christ School, where they played their […]
Brian Parker II, C/GSchool: Duke | Conference: ACCCollege Experience: Redshirt Junior | Age: 23Height / Weight: 6’5” / 309 lbs.Projected Draft Status: Round 4-5Player Comparisons: Ethan Pocic, Connor McGovern Player Overview Brian Parker II was a Center in high school and one of the top college recruits at that position. He also participated in lacrosse, […]
Duke fans were perhaps a bit surprised to find that Nik Khamenia is considering UConn as his transfer destination. Well, why not? It’s an excellent program, Danny Hurley is a gifted coach, and he’d probably do well there. In this article, we see a few snide shots from Duke fans, and a few back from […]
We were really sorry to see Nik Khamenia enter the portal. He probably didn’t play as much as he wanted this year, and probably didn’t have the role that he wanted, but he was really valuable to this team. A solid all-round player, and a real winner, Khamenia could have built a much bigger role […]
Jon Scheyer hasn’t had a lot to say after Duke’s excruciating loss to UConn, but he spoke out a bit recently. Scheyer spoke to Josh Graham about Duke’s Elite Eight game against the Huskies and said this: “I’m not shying away from the fact that there’s incredible heartbreak and disappointment when we lose the way […]
Every year, a graphic like this pops up, and it always gets the debate flowing. It’s the ultimate barroom debate: Who is a “Blue Blood,” who is just “Great,” and who is living in the “Basement?” But look closely at Tier 1. You see the usual suspects: Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, and UCLA. Now […]
Darren Harris, a 6-foot-5 guard who played the last two seasons at Duke, committed to IU basketball today. Harris has two seasons of eligibility remaining. He also considered Virginia out of the portal. He is the second transfer portal commitment ... The post Duke transfer Darren Harris commits to IU basketball appeared first on Inside the Hall | Indiana Hoosiers Basketball News, Recruiting and Analysis .
NC State took the first two games of the series with Duke in Raleigh this weekend before dropping the series finale. The Wolfpack are now 5-1 in their last six ACC games and sit at 8-7 at the midway point of conference play, tied for 6th in the league with Miami. With an RPI ranking […]
The latest Duke Chronicle player profile is of Cayden Boozer. While brother Cameron got most of the attention between the two, Cayden proved, especially late in the season, that he is a gifted player, a guy who knows what to do and when, and, in a nutshell, a winner. The easiest mistake for fans to […]
Last night, we linked to a story that suggested Duke had pulled ahead of Louisville for Kansas transfer Flory Bidunga, but not so fast: Bidunga, along with Oregon transfer Jackson Shelstad, committed to Pat Kelsey’s Cardinals program Sunday afternoon. That’s a huge gain for Louisville and will virtually guarantee they’ll be rated in the top […]
If every Duke player had a TV show named after him, we’d have one called this: Everybody Loves Maliq. Maliq Brown has been one of the best-loved players in Duke Basketball history. Why is that? Partly it’s because he’s just such a smart player. As the Duke Chronicle notes in its latest profile, Brown doesn’t […]
This is pretty cool: Krysten Peek got a chance to sit down with future Blue Devils Cameron Williams and Deron Rippey at the Nike Hoop Summit to talk about their decision to play for Duke. Both of them talk positively about playing for Jon Scheyer and his talents on both ends of the court, and […]
As everyone knows by now, Cameron Boozer had an amazing year for Duke. He won the ACC Rookie of the Year, the ACC Player of the Year, the ACC Tournament MVP, First-Team All-American, the Karl Malone Award, the Oscar Robertson Trophy, The Sporting News Player of the Year, NABC Player of the Year, USBWA Player […]
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Indiana men’s basketball is set to host yet another high major backcourt prospect out of the transfer portal for a visit this weekend, per reporting from Sam Kayser of League Ready. Darren Harris, a rising junior guard out of Duke, will be in Bloomington for an official visit starting on Saturday. After that, he has […]
Sophomore forward Malcolm Flaggs has entered the transfer portal. The 6’6” forward appeared in one game this year, recording one rebound and missing one shot in two minutes played against Penn. Flaggs, who followed Duke Brennan from Arizona State to Grand Canyon to Villanova, will presumably be looking for somewhere he can get some minutes […]
The latest Duke Chronicle player profile is of Patrick Ngongba, and from his freshman to sophomore seasons, Ngongba has grown as much as any Duke player in recent memory. If you remember, Ngongba missed much of his senior season in high school with a foot injury, and with Duke’s depth up front last season, we […]
Just a few days into the offseason, Duke has already seen two rotation pieces—Nik Khamenia and Darren Harris—enter the transfer portal. What the Blue Devils haven’t heard yet are any decisions regarding the NBA Draft. Cam Boozer is surely off to be a Top 3 pick. Dame Sarr and Pat Ngongba have challenging stay-or-go decisions […]
As we have seen in recent years, the portal giveth, and the portal taketh away. So far this year, we’ve seen Darren Harris and Nik Khamenia enter the portal, and we’ve started to see Duke being discussed with guys looking for new schools as well. The most intriguing of these is probably Flory Bidunga of […]